{"id":227924,"date":"2025-10-27T09:35:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227924\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T09:35:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T09:35:21","slug":"premier-league-reaction-arsenal-extend-lead-man-city-lose-bournemouth-and-tottenham-complete-top-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/227924\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier League reaction: Arsenal extend lead, Man City lose, Bournemouth and Tottenham complete top three"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardiola happy with performancepublished at 09:30 GMT<\/p>\n<p>09:30 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-16yshci-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Aston Villa 1-0 Man City<\/p>\n<p>      Media caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Man City performed well but fell short on their finishes &#8211; Guardiola<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has been very positive about his side&#8217;s form over the past month and remained optimistic about the current squad&#8217;s potential. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His mood was in stark contrast to much of last season, when the six-time Premier League winner cut a frustrated figure as he attempted to manage a squad transition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite sitting fifth after nine games, as we have seen City remain second favourites for the title according to Opta&#8217;s latest predictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And Guardiola remained upbeat after Sunday&#8217;s loss. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We made a lot of chances, but unfortunately, we couldn&#8217;t score. It was the finishing, but overall, the performance I am happy with,&#8221; he told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We performed really well. After we dropped a little, in general, the second half was much better. In general, our game was good.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Guardiola happy with performancepublished at 09:30 GMT 09:30 GMT Aston Villa 1-0 Man City Media caption, Man City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-227924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}