{"id":114234,"date":"2026-03-17T23:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/guardiola-laughs-off-rumors-about-his-city-exit-after-losing-to-real-madrid\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T23:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T03:50:19","slug":"guardiola-laughs-off-rumors-about-his-city-exit-after-losing-to-real-madrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/guardiola-laughs-off-rumors-about-his-city-exit-after-losing-to-real-madrid\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola laughs off rumors about his City exit after losing to Real Madrid"},"content":{"rendered":"Manchester City&#8217;s technical director, Pep Guardiola, humorously answered questions about whether this was his last Champions League match, despite the elimination against Real Madrid.\n\nCity fell 2-1 in the second leg, and 5-1 on aggregate, marking the third consecutive time Real Madrid eliminates them from the European competition.\n\nWith doubts about Guardiola&#8217;s continuity at the Etihad Stadium beyond the summer, it was speculated that this could have been the last match of the Catalan coach in the competition he has won three times.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Oh, everyone wants to fire me, right?! My God, guys!&#8221;, said Guardiola.<\/p><cite>Pep Guardiola<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nGuardiola, with one more year on his contract, was optimistic about the team&#8217;s future.\n\nThe match against Real Madrid, although City started well, was affected by the expulsion of Bernardo Silva in the middle of the first half.\n\nSilva was penalized for a handball after a shot by Vin\u00edcius J\u00fanior. The Brazilian converted the penalty and scored again in added time, after Erling Haaland equalized before halftime.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s not a mistake, a red card, the first of his career, it\u2019s a reaction,\u201d Guardiola commented on Silva\u2019s expulsion.\n\nGuardiola explained that the decision to substitute Haaland in the second half was tactical, and assured that the player will be fit to face Arsenal in the Carabao Cup final on Sunday.\n\n&#8220;If we had scored in the second half, we had some opportunities in the first few minutes, but I wanted fresh legs and other people,&#8221; Guardiola explained.\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a1.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2026%2F0317%2Fr1629930_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>El entrenador del Manchester City, Pep Guardiola, no pudo llevar a su equipo a una remontada en el partido de vuelta contra el Real Madrid.\nMartin Rickett\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City&#8217;s technical director, Pep Guardiola, humorously answered questions about whether this was his last Champions League match, despite the elimination against Real Madrid. City fell 2-1 in the second leg, and 5-1 on aggregate, marking the third consecutive time Real Madrid eliminates them from the European competition. With doubts about Guardiola&#8217;s continuity at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[270,1200,1392,254],"class_list":{"0":"post-114234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-champions-league","9":"tag-manchester-city","10":"tag-pep-guardiola","11":"tag-real-madrid"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}