{"id":369207,"date":"2026-01-14T11:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369207\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T11:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T11:19:09","slug":"mikel-arteta-will-be-shocked-by-what-bruno-guimaraes-just-said-about-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/369207\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Arteta will be shocked by what Bruno Guimaraes just said about Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Bruno Guimaraes believes that facing Manchester City over two legs is a more daunting prospect than coming up against Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, Arsenal were eliminated from the Carabao Cup final by Newcastle United, who won the tie 4-0 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p> You predict: If Arsenal faced Man City today, the score would be _-_ <\/p>\n<p>Will we see a Pep vs Arteta cup final\u2026 \ud83d\udc40\ud83c\udfc6<\/p>\n<p> \ud83d\udc47 Join the debate; share your insight. Use the comment button on the bottom left to have your say <\/p>\n<p>It was a different story this time around for the Tyneside club, who were beaten 1-0 at home by Pep Guardiola\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the tie, Newcastle\u2019s captain was asked to assess the tie and compare it to the team\u2019s clash with the Gunners from last term.<\/p>\n<p>Bruno Guimaraes thinks Man City is tougher than facing Arsenal<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle United captain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arsenalinsider.com\/tag\/bruno-guimaraes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bruno Guimaraes<\/a> has made the rather outlandish claim that facing Man City is tougher than Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Guimaraes and Newcastle were beaten by Arsenal earlier this season after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arsenalinsider.com\/match-reports\/noni-madueke-describes-gabriel-magalhaes-using-just-one-word-after-his-arsenal-winner-vs-newcastle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gabriel Magalhaes\u2019 late header secured three points<\/a> at St James\u2019 Park.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian\u2019s team were later beaten 2-0 by City, with Antoine Semenyo and Rayan Cherki scoring the goals on Tyneside.<\/p>\n<p>But when asked whether a two-legged tie against Man City is tougher than facing Arsenal, Guimaraes told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/itvfootball\/status\/2011153411581092181\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ITV Football<\/a>: \u201cYeah, I think so. <\/p>\n<p> Tell us how Mikel Arteta breaks his semi-final curse, what is the issue? <\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/ai-71-819x1024.png\" alt=\"A graphic showing Mikel Arteta's record at Arsenal in two-legged semi-finals.\" class=\"wp-image-185349\" \/>Credit: Getty Images\/Robin Jones     <\/p>\n<p> \ud83d\udc47 Join the debate; share your insight. Use the comment button on the bottom left to have your say <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Manchester City is one of the most difficult games in the league, if not the most difficult. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know they have a deep squad, many, many top players. But as I said, at home, we believe in ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arsenalinsider.com\/news\/arsenal-suffer-huge-double-injury-blow-ahead-of-chelsea-mikel-arteta-confirms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal travel away to Chelsea<\/a> for the first leg of the Carabao Cup final, and it looks like the winner will face City at Wembley Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal sent Premier League title warning by Manchester City<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City certainly fired a Premier League title warning to Arsenal, with a hugely impressive display on Tyneside.<\/p>\n<p>Even without Erling Haaland scoring, Semenyo and Cherki were on hand to show the Gunners that they also have great squad depth.<\/p>\n<p>The arrival of Semenyo looks to be a real statement from Guardiola\u2019s team, with the winger quickly settling into life at the Etihad.<\/p>\n<p>He already has two goals in two matches and was very unlucky to have a third ruled out by VAR during the tie.<\/p>\n<p>  Join Our Newsletter <\/p>\n<p>Receive a digest of our best Arsenal content each week direct to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bruno Guimaraes believes that facing Manchester City over two legs is a more daunting prospect than coming up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[60479,218,2119,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-369207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-bruno-guimaraes","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-mikel-arteta","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369207","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=369207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}