{"id":18254,"date":"2022-05-15T18:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T22:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/05\/15\/pep-guardiola-sends-request-to-southampton-ahead-of-liverpool-clash\/"},"modified":"2022-05-15T18:00:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T22:00:45","slug":"pep-guardiola-sends-request-to-southampton-ahead-of-liverpool-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/05\/15\/pep-guardiola-sends-request-to-southampton-ahead-of-liverpool-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola sends request to Southampton ahead of Liverpool clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has forwarded something of a lighthearted message to Southampton, ahead of the Saints\u2019 upcoming meeting with Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>The latest chapter in the tense battle for the Premier League title is of course set to play out on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off a penalty shootout downing of Chelsea to seal FA Cup glory on Saturday, Jurgen Klopp\u2019s Liverpool are set to make the trip to St. Mary\u2019s, for a Premier League showdown with the aforementioned Southampton.<\/p>\n<p>After Man City were held to a 2-2 draw by West Ham United earlier in the day, all associated with Liverpool will no doubt be fully aware that a victory of their own in 48 hours\u2019 time would see the Reds close to within a point of the table-topping Citizens, with just a solitary round of fixtures to play.<\/p>\n<p>In turn, it shouldn\u2019t come as a massive surprise to hear of Pep Guardiola holding out hope of Ralph Hasenuttl\u2019s Southampton doing his side a favour on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media on the back of the full-time whistle at the London Stadium this evening, City\u2019s boss sent a tongue-in-cheek message to the Saints, in the form of a request to \u2018beat Liverpool 4-0\u2019.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pep, asked if he has a message for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SouthamptonFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SouthamptonFC<\/a>: \u201cBeat Liverpool 4-0.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Simon Stone (@sistoney67) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sistoney67\/status\/1525862310996332545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Bowen\u2019s brace not enough<\/h2>\n<p>Whilst Man City\u2019s solitary point secured against West Ham, on the face of it, may look like a disappointing takeaway from the clash, in truth, many of a Sky Blues persuasion will actually likely be satisfied with their side simply avoiding defeat.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Guardiola and co. fell into a shock two-goal hole inside the opening 45 minutes in London, owing to a Jarrod Bowen brace:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BOWEN HAS BAGGED A BRACE!!! ?<\/p>\n<p>This title race just keeps on giving! ?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WHUMCI?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WHUMCI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/85RXBwqjFh\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/85RXBwqjFh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsPL\/status\/1525836053130747905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Jack Grealish\u2019s finish early in the 2nd-half being followed 20 minutes from time by a Vladimir Coufal own goal, though, mean that it is City who remain in control of the title race, albeit only just ahead of the final week of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/features\/player-ratings-fan-reaction-more-title-race-to-go-down-to-final-day-as-manchester-city-held-by-west-ham\/\">Player ratings, fan reaction &amp; more: Title race to go down to final day as Manchester City held by West Ham<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/liverpool-boost-as-fresh-updates-surface-on-salah-van-dijk\/\">Liverpool boost as fresh updates surface on Salah &amp; van Dijk<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has forwarded something of a lighthearted message to Southampton, ahead of the Saints\u2019 upcoming meeting with Liverpool. The latest chapter in the tense battle for the Premier League title is of course set to play out on Tuesday night. Fresh off a penalty shootout downing of Chelsea to seal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-18254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}