{"id":575455,"date":"2026-05-09T22:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/575455\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T22:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T22:28:09","slug":"come-on-you-irons-pep-guardiola-urges-west-ham-to-hurt-arsenal-in-title-race-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/575455\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Come on you Irons\u2019: Pep Guardiola urges West Ham to hurt Arsenal in title race | Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pep Guardiola playfully urged West Ham to take points off Arsenal in the title race when the leaders play them on Sunday, saying: \u201cCome on you Irons,\u201d at the end of his press conference after Manchester City<\/a> beat Brentford.<\/p>\n

City\u2019s 3-0 victory at the Etihad Stadium<\/a> closed the gap to Mikel Arteta\u2019s team to two points but Arsenal cannot be caught if they win their last three matches, starting at the London Stadium. Conscious of this, Guardiola crossed his arms to mimic the hammers on the West Ham badge and smiled as he said: \u201cCome on you Irons.\u201d<\/p>\n

After Sunday\u2019s late game, Arsenal host Burnley and visit Crystal Palace. City play Palace on Wednesday, before visiting Bournemouth<\/a> three days after Saturday\u2019s FA Cup final against Chelsea, then Aston Villa on the season\u2019s concluding Sunday.<\/p>\n

Guardiola was asked if there might be more twists in the championship tussle. \u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are fighting with a team quite similar to Liverpool in the past, that is in the final of the Champions League without losing a game and have been top of the league almost all season. It\u2019s not in our hands so it depends on them dropping points but all we can do is Wednesday win again, play the final of the FA Cup and go to Bournemouth \u2013 I\u2019d say that is not the best one to go \u2013 and then Aston Villa so the calendar is demanding.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s simple. It\u2019s just two weeks and the season will be over. I love it \u2013 love to be here again, finish second again is the minimum so I love it. The Carabao Cup is in our pocket<\/a>, the Cup final at Wembley is the most beautiful day of the season and I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Second-half goals from J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku, Erling Haaland and Omar Marmoush defeated Keith Andrews\u2019 team though Brentford\u2019s manager was not happy about Kevin Schade not being awarded a penalty at 1-0 down, when Matheus Nunes appeared to bring him down in City\u2019s penalty area.<\/p>\n

Andrews said: \u201cThe comment I heard [from the officials] was \u2018not enough contact\u2019. For someone who is as quick as Kevin Schade, I don\u2019t know how much contact it needs. Not with how quick Kevin is. It\u2019s disappointing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe officials have a really difficult job with the speed of the game \u2013 it\u2019s so hard \u2013 and players are trying to get decisions. I just felt we were going to get one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brentford are in eighth and pushing for European football next season. \u201cI\u2019ve not seen anything other than ambition and energy from the players in the last few weeks,\u201d Andrews said. \u201cWe\u2019re looking stronger from the bench. I anticipate we\u2019ll get two good performances and let\u2019s see where that leaves us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola playfully urged West Ham to take points off Arsenal in the title race when the leaders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-575455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575455","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=575455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}