{"id":516752,"date":"2026-03-03T21:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516752\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T21:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:19:08","slug":"pep-guardiola-likens-premier-league-set-piece-trend-to-nba-3-pointers-you-have-to-adapt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516752\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola likens Premier League set-piece trend to NBA 3-pointers: \u2018You have to adapt\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pep Guardiola says he partly agrees with Arne Slot\u2019s comments<\/a> that the Premier League is less enjoyable to watch, but added his Manchester City team are adapting to the increasing importance of set-pieces.<\/p>\n

Guardiola likened the widespread use of long throw-ins and holding in the penalty area in the league to the rise of three-pointers in the NBA following the success of the Golden State Warriors due to the long-range shooting of Steph Curry.<\/p>\n

Liverpool boss Slot said on Monday he believes most Premier League games \u201care not a joy to watch\u201d and expressed a wish for this year\u2019s World Cup winners to play attractive football and score goals from open play.<\/p>\n

Guardiola did not specify which parts of Slot\u2019s comments he agrees with, but did discuss set-pieces interrupting the rhythm of a match, and also focused on how holding in the box is being refereed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was a young boy we said the people in England celebrate corners and free-kicks like a goal,\u201d he said at his Tuesday press conference. \u201cI remember perfectly when I was a young boy, so nothing has changed in that way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is true Arsenal dictate a little bit how they do it and it is an important role. Four years ago in the NBA, the three-shot point was not involved as much but the Golden State Warriors with Stephen Curry [started] to make three points and everyone adapted, now so many teams do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is part of the evolution and part of the dynamics. You can sit and complain but you have to adapt. It\u2019s part of the game. I know the game is stopped with set-pieces, it is not dynamic but it is part of the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have to adapt and especially adapt in the way it is whistled and conducted in the Premier League. Every country has a specific way to do it and every club has specific ways to play with the managers and the teams. I understand completely the reason why Arne said that and in some aspects I agree.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guardiola was asked whether he had a solution to the amount of holding and pushing that goes on at set-pieces in the Premier League but insisted that he would not be drawn on it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t share with you,\u201d he said. \u201cI have shared it with the players a long time ago. What happens inside and outside of the box remains absolutely to me and I don\u2019t want to share it with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

City, who are second in the standings, face Nottingham Forest in the Premier League on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola says he partly agrees with Arne Slot\u2019s comments that the Premier League is less enjoyable to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,2354,85],"class_list":["post-516752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-manchester-city","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}