{"id":550948,"date":"2026-04-26T01:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/550948\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T01:48:10","slug":"pep-guardiola-gives-phil-foden-verdict-after-being-brought-off-in-man-city-win-vs-southampton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/550948\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola gives Phil Foden verdict after being brought off in Man City win vs Southampton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City midfielder Phil Foden was withdrawn in the second half as the Blues beat Southampton 2-1 at Wembley Stadium.\"Phil<\/p>\n

Phil Foden reacts during Manchester City’s 2-1 win over Southampton(Image: Cameron Smith – The FA\/The FA via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Manchester City head coach Pep Guardiola insists it is only a matter of time until Phil Foden is back to his best following his substitution during the 2-1 victory over Southampton. Foden made his first start since March at Wembley but struggled to have an impact in the FA Cup<\/a> semi-final.<\/p>\n

With City<\/a> struggling to make a breakthrough, Foden<\/a> was substituted on 58 minutes with his replacement Savinho enjoying more joy down the right-hand side. The England international has not scored since December but Guardiola is adamant that Foden will return to his best.<\/p>\n

“Question of a little bit of time,” Guardiola<\/a> said in his post-match press conference. “It was not easy in the first half for him because we were playing in the pockets and his position was being man-marked. For a full-back it is not easy to find him.<\/p>\n

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“It is a question of time when he will be back.” When asked if he had faith in Foden, Guardiola simply replied: “Absolutely.” City’s win at Wembley ensured the Blues created history as they reached their fourth consecutive FA Cup<\/a> final.<\/p>\n

Reflecting on the win, Guardiola added: “Southampton were 19 [20] games unbeaten so I never thought that it would be easy. The energy that we had with Jeremy [Doku] and Savio, if they started they would not have this energy because Jeremy especially, when you play in three days, the risk to get injured is so massive and a lot of players deserved to play.<\/p>\n

“The first half was not bad, we did not concede much in the second half. We played at the level against Burnley but we arrived in the 18-yard box and we were not clinical enough and we had to wait for a holding midfielder to score an outstanding goal.<\/p>\n

“How many times did Southampton cross the halfway in the second half? One. And what a goal. Football is unpredictable but big credit for how they defend and the way they play.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City midfielder Phil Foden was withdrawn in the second half as the Blues beat Southampton 2-1 at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2948,59,2502,19404,35917,566,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-550948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-fa-cup","tag-gb","tag-manchester-city-fc","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-phil-foden","tag-southampton-fc","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550948","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=550948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}