{"id":78779,"date":"2025-09-22T12:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/78779\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:26:08","slug":"roy-keane-tells-guardiola-to-stop-complaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/78779\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Keane tells Guardiola to stop complaining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roy Keane had little sympathy with Pep Guardiola over the Manchester City manager\u2019s comments regarding his team\u2019s schedule following Sunday\u2019s 1-1 draw at Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola felt his players showed the effects of a busy week that also included last weekend\u2019s derby and a Champions League clash with Napoli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHats off to the team, their resilience,\u201d he said on Sky Sports, after seeing Erling Haaland\u2019s early opener cancelled out by Gabriel Martinelli\u2019s stoppage-time strike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cTo score is so difficult when you\u2019re not effective at high pressing, you\u2019re not effective in the build-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe mindset has to be strong but we have a lot of fatigue with the same players, we have you know how many injured.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"525\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAre you satisfied?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola fires back with a cheeky comment when pressed on City\u2019s demanding schedule and player fatigue \ud83d\ude05 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bULiLV75OH\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bULiLV75OH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/1969828488510046431?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\">Asked why he felt his team were not effective, he said: \u201c(Arsenal) were better and we were incredibly tired. Sometimes people don\u2019t realise, the game against Napoli in the Champions League was so emotional, after that a recovery day and the day after you have to (travel) four, five hours (to London).\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Pressed on his feelings regarding the schedule, he said: \u201cBut if you want to bring up the fact that now I\u2019m complaining for the schedule, OK. OK, I\u2019m complaining for the schedule! Are you satisfied? OK\u2026!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Former Manchester United captain Keane, speaking as a pundit on Sky Sports, responded: \u201cIf you\u2019re talking about fatigue and schedules, we\u2019re in September and they\u2019re on the back of two home matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cThe United game they were fairly comfortable, Napoli had a man sent off after 20 minutes. They\u2019ve not travelled from Russia or Poland when you\u2019ve had a tough away game. We all know the challenges of being a footballer is being robust and playing two or three games a week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe look at their players on the bench, I\u2019m sure there must be other managers in the Premier League looking at Pep thinking, \u2018Pep, if you think you\u2019ve got problems with schedules and the strength in depth, my goodness\u2019. I didn\u2019t like that angle Pep was coming from.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roy Keane had little sympathy with Pep Guardiola over the Manchester City manager\u2019s comments regarding his team\u2019s schedule&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[2725,18,19,17,53087,2104,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-78779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-arsenal","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-keane","13":"tag-place-uk","14":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}