{"id":909723,"date":"2026-06-01T15:12:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/epl-guardiola-begs-west-ham-for-help-ahead-of-arsenal-clash\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T15:12:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T20:12:46","slug":"epl-guardiola-begs-west-ham-for-help-ahead-of-arsenal-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/01\/epl-guardiola-begs-west-ham-for-help-ahead-of-arsenal-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"EPL: Guardiola begs West Ham for help ahead of Arsenal clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has asked West Ham for help in the Premier League title race.<\/p>\n<p>Following their 3-0 home win over Brentford on\u00a0Saturday, Guardiola ended his postmatch news conference by shouting \u201ccome on you Irons\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The result saw City close the gap at the top to two points, thanks to goals from J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku, Erling Haaland and Omar Marmoush at the Etihad Stadium on\u00a0Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>And with leaders Arsenal visiting West Ham on\u00a0Sunday, Guardiola needs a favour from Nuno Esp\u00edrito Santo\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>According to ESPN, as the City boss left the media theatre on\u00a0Saturday, he crossed his arms to mimic a gesture used by West Ham fans and said \u201ccome on, you Irons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked earlier about the state of the title race, he said: \u201cWe are fighting with a team in the final of the Champions League without losing a game and have been top of the league almost all season.\u201d<\/p>\n<pre id=\"x_1895139373mailcontentid.plainTextContent\"><\/pre>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Ifreke Inyang<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2026\/05\/10\/epl-guardiola-begs-west-ham-for-help-ahead-of-arsenal-clash\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, has asked West Ham for help in the Premier League title race. Following their 3-0 home win over Brentford on\u00a0Saturday, Guardiola ended his postmatch news conference by shouting \u201ccome on you Irons\u201d. The result saw City close the gap at the top to two points, thanks to goals from J\u00e9r\u00e9my<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":909724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[860,30510],"tags":[5040,6699],"class_list":["post-909723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ahead","category-guardiola","tag-ahead","tag-guardiola"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}