{"id":23208,"date":"2024-02-01T05:10:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T02:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/23208\/guardiola-hails-unbelievable-alvarez-as\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T05:10:34","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T02:10:34","slug":"guardiola-hails-unbelievable-alvarez-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=23208","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola hails &#8216;unbelievable&#8217; \u00c1lvarez as Haaland returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardiola hails &#8216;unbelievable&#8217; \u00c1lvarez as Haaland returns\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li class=\"mugshot-shown\">\n<div class=\"author-img\"><\/div>\n<p>Rob Dawson, correspondent<span class=\"timestamp \">January 31, 2024, 11:17 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Pep Guardiola says Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez is already one of the best players in the world after scoring twice to help Manchester City win 3-1 against Burnley.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c1lvarez has scored 15 goals for the season, just two fewer than last season, with a first-half brace at the Etihad Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The striker, who turned 24 on Wednesday, has won the Premier League title, Champions League and World Cup during his short career and Guardiola believes he has already established himself as one of best in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor his age, for the numbers in the Premier League, for what he gives to the team, he is unbelievable,\u201d Guardiola said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#39;s a world champion who plays alongside [Leo] Messi, [\u00c1ngel] Di Mar\u00eda and Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez.  If you&#39;re not good, you can&#39;t play on this team.  He can play three different positions and he has an incredible sense of intensity to run.  He&#39;s really good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data- media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data- media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez played in Manchester City&#39;s <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> against Burnley. <cite>James Gill &#8211; Danehouse\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>\u00c1lvarez&#39;s contribution was one of the many positives for Guardiola, who was able to give Kevin De Bruyne a first <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/start\/\"   title=\"start\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">start<\/a> since the opening day of the season.<\/p>\n<p>With the game won in the second half, the City manager was also able to bring on Erling Haaland for his first appearance in two months following a foot injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf it was 7-0 at halftime, he would have played more minutes,\u201d Guardiola said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it was 0-0, maybe he wouldn&#39;t have played a minute. I saw him alive, the feeling that he was there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He didn&#39;t have any clear chances but he had three or four when J\u00e9r\u00e9my&#39;s control [Doku] I haven&#39;t seen him but he can score with his quality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#39;s been really good without him the last couple of months, but with him we&#39;re a better team and we&#39;re really happy he&#39;s back.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardiola hails &#8216;unbelievable&#8217; \u00c1lvarez as Haaland returns\u060c Rob Dawson, correspondentJanuary 31, 2024, 11:17 p.m. Pep Guardiola says Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez is already one of the best players in the world after scoring twice to help Manchester City win 3-1 against Burnley. \u00c1lvarez has scored 15 goals for the season, just two fewer than last season, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1507,3018,1268,4699,1725,2487],"class_list":["post-23208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-alvarez","tag-guardiola","tag-haaland","tag-hails","tag-returns","tag-unbelievable"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23210,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23208\/revisions\/23210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}