{"id":88354,"date":"2025-11-26T09:31:51","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/city-falls-to-leverkusen-guardiola-and-failed-rotations-in-champions-league-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:31:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T13:31:51","slug":"city-falls-to-leverkusen-guardiola-and-failed-rotations-in-champions-league-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/city-falls-to-leverkusen-guardiola-and-failed-rotations-in-champions-league-2\/","title":{"rendered":"City Falls to Leverkusen: Guardiola and Failed Rotations in Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Manchester City Stumbles at Home: Guardiola Takes Responsibility<\/h2>\n\n\nManchester City, led by Pep Guardiola, suffered an unexpected home defeat against Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League, with a score of 2-0. This result has questioned the coach&#8217;s tactical decisions, especially after making multiple changes in the starting eleven.\n\nGuardiola, after the defeat in the Premier League against Newcastle United, chose to modify his lineup, resting key players and giving opportunities to others. However, the bet did not go as expected.\n\nLeverkusen, taking advantage of the situation, went ahead on the scoreboard and controlled the match. Guardiola reacted at halftime with substitutions, but the situation did not improve, and the German team extended their lead.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Too many changes. I take responsibility. I wanted to involve everyone, but maybe it was too much.<\/p><cite>Pep Guardiola<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nThe defeat left City in a complicated position, with the need to obtain good results in the next matches to secure their classification. Guardiola will have to rethink his strategy and choose the right team for the next match.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1126%2Fr1580810_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Pep Guardiola\" title=\"\"><figcaption>El Manchester City, de Pep Guardiola, buscar\u00e1 recuperarse tras las derrotas consecutivas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nThe City coach will have to analyze the decisions made and look for solutions to avoid more setbacks in the competition.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City Stumbles at Home: Guardiola Takes Responsibility Manchester City, led by Pep Guardiola, suffered an unexpected home defeat against Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League, with a score of 2-0. This result has questioned the coach&#8217;s tactical decisions, especially after making multiple changes in the starting eleven. Guardiola, after the defeat in the Premier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1380,270,1198,1200],"class_list":{"0":"post-88354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-bayer-leverkusen","9":"tag-champions-league","10":"tag-guardiola","11":"tag-manchester-city"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88354","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=88354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}