{"id":3123,"date":"2023-10-20T19:54:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/3123\/messi-haaland-both-deserve-to\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T19:54:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T16:54:31","slug":"messi-haaland-both-deserve-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=3123","title":{"rendered":"Messi, Haaland both deserve to win Ballon d&#8217;Or &#8211; Guardiola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Messi, Haaland both deserve to win Ballon d&#8217;Or &#8211; Guardiola\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 \">October 20, 2023, 2:42 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Lionel Messi and Erling Haaland both deserve to win the Ballon d&#8217;Or, according to Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola.<\/p>\n<p>Messi captained Argentina to triumph at the World Cup in Qatar while Haaland scored 52 goals in 53 games to help City <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/win\/\"   title=\"win\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">win<\/a> a treble of the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (US)<\/strong><br \/><strong>\u2013 How VAR could have stopped <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/man\/\"   title=\"Man\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Man<\/a> City from winning Aguero\u2019s title<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Messi and Haaland are the two favorites for the award which will be announced at a ceremony on October 30 and Guardiola said both players deserved to win.<\/p>\n<p>I always said that the Ballon d&#8217;Or should be divided into two sections: one for <a href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/2225\/kane-joins-messi-ronaldo-neymar-international-goal-club\/\">Messi<\/a>, then another for Haaland to win, yes,&#8221; Guardiola said in a press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We won the treble, he scored a million goals. The worst season for Messi is the best for the rest of the players. Both deserve it. Actually, I want Haaland to have it because he got us helped achieve what we have achieved, I would love to But Messi won the World Cup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Haaland scored twice for Norway in a 4-0 win over Cyprus during the international break and Guardiola hopes it will spark a return to form with City after going three club matches without a goal.<\/p>\n<p>Brighton are the visitors to the Etihad Stadium on Saturday and Guardiola said John Stones was available, despite concerns over the defender&#8217;s presence in England&#8217;s two internationals during the break after being limited to just one substitute appearance for City until now this season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were a little worried,\u201d added Guardiola.  &#8220;We spoke with Gareth [Southgate], we have an incredible relationship.  We were worried because Stones didn&#8217;t play a single minute in the last two months and then played for the national team.  It was so important and we couldn&#8217;t use it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re happy he got minutes, but what happens if he gets injured? So he plays a few minutes and goes out. They love playing for their country and I never say don&#8217;t go . Fortunately, everything went well and he is ready for the next matches.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Messi, Haaland both deserve to win Ballon d&#8217;Or &#8211; Guardiola\u060c Rob Dawson, correspondentOctober 20, 2023, 2:42 p.m. Lionel Messi and Erling Haaland both deserve to win the Ballon d&#8217;Or, according to Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola. Messi captained Argentina to triumph at the World Cup in Qatar while Haaland scored 52 goals in 53 games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3016,3015,3017,3018,1268,2557,10],"class_list":["post-3123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-ballon","tag-deserve","tag-dor","tag-guardiola","tag-haaland","tag-messi","tag-win"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123","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=3123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3125,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3123\/revisions\/3125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}