{"id":268695,"date":"2025-11-03T11:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/268695\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T11:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T11:08:11","slug":"can-man-city-or-liverpool-challenge-arsenal-for-the-title-your-views-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/268695\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Man City or Liverpool challenge Arsenal for the title? Your views &#038; analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haaland training like Ivan Dragopublished at 10:10 GMT<\/p>\n<p>10:10 GMT<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/42568a2b-0299-4b02-8b44-f41115262731.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Craig Nelson<br \/>BBC Sport reporter<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Talking about Erling Haaland being a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/c07m58zgvyxt?post=asset%3A7656a1c3-ed97-4dd3-af59-2feb32ec70be#post\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">model pro<\/a>, I was lucky enough to attend an open training session Manchester City held in pre-season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Part of the session involved players doing gym exercises. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They all seemed to struggle with one in particular &#8211; bouncing a medicine ball. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The aim was to get it to bounce up to chest height and it looked to sap every ounce of energy, just to do a couple. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Not for Erling though, who was bouncing the heavy ball like it was one you might find in a beach shop, making it go higher and faster than any of his team-mates. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">All the while, he had this smile on his face that reminded me of Ivan Drago from the film Rocky IV&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Maybe not a reference for younger readers, but Google it kids, you won&#8217;t be disappointed.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ivan Drago and Rocky\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cf51938d-0bab-4d4f-ad97-0fcc87073944.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"700\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Haaland training like Ivan Dragopublished at 10:10 GMT 10:10 GMT Craig NelsonBBC Sport reporter Talking about Erling Haaland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-268695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}