{"id":581251,"date":"2026-08-11T09:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581251\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:24:10","slug":"people-will-be-comparing-it-to-pep-after-10-games-enzo-maresca-prepares-for-impossible-manchester-city-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/581251\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People will be comparing it to Pep after 10 games\u2019 \u2013 Enzo Maresca prepares for \u2018impossible\u2019 Manchester City challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking over from Guardiola at City is a task many would deem the most difficult in world football, but Maresca is ready to embrace the scrutiny. After Guardiola ended his trophy-laden tenure with 17 major honors, including six Premier League titles, the expectations in the blue half of Manchester remain sky-high. Maresca, speaking to the media during the club&#8217;s pre-season tour in Seoul, acknowledged that his performance will be measured against the standard set by the Catalan from the very first whistle of the new campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the inevitable comparisons, Maresca was candid about the pressure he faces. &#8220;After 10 games, if we have got 10 points, 20 points, 30 points. People will be comparing it to Pep after 10 games, it doesn&#8217;t put pressure on me,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;I have said many times while I was at Leicester or Chelsea, he is the best manager in the world over the last 15 or 20 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taking over from Guardiola at City is a task many would deem the most difficult in world football,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[58545,85,46,3157,2618,2619,105],"class_list":["post-581251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-e-maresca","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-manchester-united","tag-p-guardiola","tag-premier-league","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}