{"id":15114,"date":"2025-10-25T23:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/15114\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T23:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T23:42:10","slug":"pep-guardiola-aston-villa-one-of-toughest-away-games-man-city-face-all-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/15114\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola: Aston Villa one of toughest away games Man City face all season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City face Unai Emery\u2019s team at Villa Park on Sunday hoping to extend their run of nine games unbeaten in all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>The back-to-back Premier League losses City suffered to Tottenham and Brighton in August now seem well behind them but Guardiola is wary of a Villa side improving after their own slow start.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.70971530.jpg\" alt=\"Unai Emery and Pep Guardiola embrace on the touchline\" data-title=\"Manchester City v Aston Villa \u2013 Premier League \u2013 Etihad Stadium\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Archive\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Archive\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Martin Rickett\" data-usage-terms=\"EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club\/league logos or \u201clive\u201d services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club\/league\/player publications.\"  \/>Guardiola (right) has a lot of respect for fellow Spaniard Unai Emery (Martin Rickett\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>The City manager said: \u201cThey were much, much better than us in the last two fixtures we played at Villa Park, much better. Hopefully, it will be different on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe admiration I have for Unai is so high. He\u2019s incredible, so consistent and well-prepared, so smart.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are not in the Champions League this season for one point. For me, it\u2019s a team of the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year they created a lot of problems against the champion of the Champions League, PSG.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re so well-organised with quality. They have everything. It\u2019s one of the toughest away games we have in the season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>City are again without the influential Rodri as he continues his recovery from a hamstring injury.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.81708987.jpg\" alt=\"Manchester City captain Bernardo Silva during a game\" data-title=\"Bernardo Silva file photo\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Bradley Collyer\" data-usage-terms=\"FILE PHOTO EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club\/league logos or \u201clive\u201d services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club\/league\/player publica\u2026\"  \/>City captain Bernardo Silva feels performances are improving (Bradley Collyer\/PA)<\/p>\n<p>His deputy Nico Gonzalez will also be assessed after he came off with a foot injury against Villarreal in the Champions League on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Striker Erling Haaland will be hoping to extend his goalscoring streak having struck in his last 12 games for club and country.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Bernardo Silva believes City are starting to find their groove now but has warned one good month does not make a good season.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese said: \u201cWe\u2019ve found a bit more of our rhythm. We found the stability at the back and that gives the freedom for the guys up front to play in a different way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re happy with the momentum but there\u2019s still a long way to go. It\u2019s just one month that we were quite good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we want to be successful this season, we need to keep it that way for much longer than just one month.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City face Unai Emery\u2019s team at Villa Park on Sunday hoping to extend their run of nine games&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-15114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}