{"id":23576,"date":"2026-02-10T14:37:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/man-citys-guardiola-shrugs-off-title-speculation-calls-for-more-consistency\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:21","slug":"man-citys-guardiola-shrugs-off-title-speculation-calls-for-more-consistency","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/man-citys-guardiola-shrugs-off-title-speculation-calls-for-more-consistency\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City&#8217;s Guardiola shrugs off title speculation, calls for more consistency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Second-placed City have been chasing Premier League leaders Arsenal&#8217;s for months, and Sunday&#8217;s 2-1 win at Liverpool kept them within six points of the top of the table.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;Every time over the past weeks and months when I go before the game for an interview, (it&#8217;s) always if you lose you are losing everything and are going to disappear from the planet earth and stuff,&#8221; Guardiola told reporters on Tuesday, a day before City host Fulham.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;So what I am saying is what do you have to do to beat Fulham?,&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">City, seeking their seventh English top-flight title in Guardiola&#8217;s decade-long tenure, have won only two of their last seven league games, allowing Arsenal to pull further ahead with four wins in the same period.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8220;The distance is not huge but considering how Arsenal is doing, six points is a lot. Next game against a team like (Fulham) who every year is better and better, so we&#8217;ll see,&#8221; Guardiola said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">City had to dig deep to snatch a 5-4 win at Fulham in December, and Guardiola praised the way the London side have improved under Marco Silva since earning their promotion to the Premier League in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23577,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-23576","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Manchester City Manager, Pep Guardiola said it does not help to pay attention to title race speculation before every game, and he focuses entirely on beating his next opponents","published_date":"2026-02-10 00:00:00","news_description":"Manchester City Manager, Pep Guardiola said it does not help to pay attention to title race speculation before every game, and he focuses entirely on beating his next opponents","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26501,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23576\/revisions\/26501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}