{"id":38481,"date":"2025-09-23T05:06:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/silva-explodes-arsenal-favored-by-schedule-city-disadvantaged\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T05:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:06:20","slug":"silva-explodes-arsenal-favored-by-schedule-city-disadvantaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/silva-explodes-arsenal-favored-by-schedule-city-disadvantaged\/","title":{"rendered":"Silva EXPLODES: Arsenal, favored by schedule; City, disadvantaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Bernardo Silva criticizes the schedule after the draw between Arsenal and Manchester City<\/h2>\n\nManchester City footballer Bernardo Silva expressed his frustration after the 1-1 draw against Arsenal, accusing the Premier League organizers of giving an unfair advantage to the rival team. Silva pointed out the little rest time City had compared to Arsenal, which, according to him, affected the team&#8217;s performance.\n\nThe match was played just 66 hours after City played a Champions League match against Napoli. Meanwhile, Arsenal had two more days of rest before the match.\n\nGabriel Martinelli&#8217;s goal in added time equalized the score after Erling Haaland&#8217;s initial goal, but Silva was not impressed by the result. The midfielder stated that the team could not perform at its best due to the lack of time to recover.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The reality is that we can&#8217;t go into one of the most important matches of the season with such a disadvantage in terms of rest. It&#8217;s not fair to play one of these matches like this. It&#8217;s simply not right.<\/p>\n<cite>Bernardo Silva<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nSilva emphasized the importance of physical condition in this type of match and regretted that the team was not on equal terms with Arsenal. He also mentioned Khusanov&#8217;s injury as an example of the physical demands of the match.\n\nThe Portuguese player acknowledged the demands of the calendar and the need to balance competitions and broadcasters&#8217; revenue, but insisted on the need for common sense in matches of such magnitude.\n\nSilva also revealed that they have tried to communicate with those responsible for the league to express their concerns, but they have not been heard. He concluded that the situation was not favorable for the fans, the clubs, or the competition.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0922%2Fr1549358_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Bernardo Silva\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n<em>Manchester City captain Bernardo Silva criticized the scheduling of the match against Arsenal, arguing that it is not fair.<\/em>\n\nArsenal is five points behind the Premier League leader, while City is eight points off the top.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernardo Silva criticizes the schedule after the draw between Arsenal and Manchester City Manchester City footballer Bernardo Silva expressed his frustration after the 1-1 draw against Arsenal, accusing the Premier League organizers of giving an unfair advantage to the rival team. Silva pointed out the little rest time City had compared to Arsenal, which, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[140,4257,1200,3147],"class_list":{"0":"post-38481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-soccer","7":"tag-arsenal","8":"tag-bernardo-silva","9":"tag-manchester-city","10":"tag-scheduling"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38481","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=38481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}