{"id":556983,"date":"2025-11-08T09:46:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/556983\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T09:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T09:46:19","slug":"the-opposition-lowdown-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/556983\/","title":{"rendered":"The opposition lowdown: Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Previous meetings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Liverpool won this fixture 2-0 both home and away in 2024-25 on their way to reclaiming the title from reigning champions City.<\/p>\n<p>At Anfield in December, Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah (penalty) were both on target.<\/p>\n<p>Away from home, Salah scored once again, alongside a Dominik Szoboszlai strike.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team news<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rodri was absent for City&#8217;s European clash with Dortmund earlier this week, and Guardiola said the midfielder is not likely to be risked against the Reds either.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are playing without the Ballon d&#8217;Or [winner] of two seasons ago, a massively important player for us and we are desperate to have him back,&#8221; said Guardiola.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[But] knowing that Nico right now has become a really, really important and good player.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What they said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guardiola on Liverpool being the opponents for his 1,000th game as a manager<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If I would have to choose one rival for this personal milestone &#8211; of course, I want to share it with many, many people obviously &#8211; that would be the best. Because I&#8217;ve been longer than ever in this country. Of course Barcelona, the impact on my life as a ball boy, football player and manager also once obviously. And of course Bayern [Munich] was an incredible step as well. But Liverpool, especially with J\u00fcrgen [Klopp], have been the biggest rival in this country. Could not be better, to be honest. The destiny of the universe has decided for that. Nice to live it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Previous meetings Liverpool won this fixture 2-0 both home and away in 2024-25 on their way to reclaiming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[1050,748,393,1051,4884,1039,1046,1041,1052,1054,1053,179,763,1045,1044,1040,1049,1042,1047,1043,16,15,1048],"class_list":{"0":"post-556983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-alisson","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-firmino","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-homepage","14":"tag-klopp","15":"tag-lfc","16":"tag-lfc-news","17":"tag-lfctv","18":"tag-lfctv-go","19":"tag-liverpool","20":"tag-liverpool-fc","21":"tag-liverpool-fc-match","22":"tag-liverpool-fc-news","23":"tag-liverpool-football-club","24":"tag-mane","25":"tag-reds","26":"tag-salah","27":"tag-the-reds","28":"tag-uk","29":"tag-united-kingdom","30":"tag-van-dijk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115513444592536368","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556983","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=556983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}