{"id":354082,"date":"2025-08-18T11:42:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/354082\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T11:42:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T11:42:16","slug":"zak-vyner-bristol-city-defender-enjoying-life-under-gerhard-struber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/354082\/","title":{"rendered":"Zak Vyner: Bristol City defender enjoying life under Gerhard Struber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">New Bristol City boss Gerhard Struber has empowered the players to express themselves, says defender Zak Vyner.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Robins are unbeaten under their Austrian coach with four points from a possible six in the Championship along with an EFL Cup victory over MK Dons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s given the lads a bit more freedom to express themselves and he wants us to be high-press but not gung-ho,&#8221; Vyner told BBC Radio Bristol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He empowers us to go out and play our game with his style and imprint on it and three games in, there have been some good performances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Struber <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c4gd957r939o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replaced Liam Manning in June<\/a> and a 4-1 opening day win at Sheffield United was followed by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/live\/c2enneg8eg1t\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">goalless draw against Charlton on Saturday.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Vyner, 28, says the head coach is proving to be an infectious character.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The gaffer&#8217;s a very enthusiastic guy and that makes you want to run that bit harder and gives you that big push to give everything,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Everyone steps onto the pitch wanting to give everything but when you have that encouragement from the side and he shows that kind of passion, it&#8217;s good to have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bristol City visit Derby County in the Championship on Friday, 22 August (20:00 BST)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Bristol City boss Gerhard Struber has empowered the players to express themselves, says defender Zak Vyner. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-354082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bristol","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115049591106535012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}