Despite the off-field turmoil, this is City’s best start to a league season in 129 years.<\/p>\n
Only Chelsea<\/a> in 2005-06 (first nine) and Liverpool<\/a> in 2019-20 (first eight) have ever won the first seven matches of a Premier League campaign.<\/p>\n Both went on to win the title.<\/p>\n “First of all, I am very happy because it’s a matter of winning games in this business,” said Maresca after the game.<\/p>\n “We were able to win seven in a row and what made me very happy was day by day with the players, the way they are working and how I can see them improving.<\/p>\n “Today I thought we controlled the game, created chances and [were] good off the ball. We are doing well and I think that’s the most important thing.”<\/p>\n On his players dealing with the events surrounding the club off the field, Maresca said: “They are not worried about people who judge from outside because they know people are trying to judge them.<\/p>\n “Inside, I promise the players are happy. They’re getting credit and I give credit to them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite the off-field turmoil, this is City’s best start to a league season in 129 years. Only Chelsea…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":885859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-885858","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\/885858","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=885858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}