{"id":2615,"date":"2026-05-08T14:18:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2026-05-08T14:18:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T14:18:58","slug":"manchester-city-how-important-is-rodri-to-pep-guardiolas-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/?p=2615","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City: How important is Rodri to Pep Guardiola&#8217;s side?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the course of Rodri&#8217;s hugely successful Manchester City career, one thing is plain; Pep Guardiola&#8217;s side are a better team with him than without him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It&#8217;s a view backed up by the data. Since his debut in August 2019, City have a better win percentage, score more goals, concede fewer goals, and have more possession in Premier League games when the Spaniard plays compared to when he is absent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The vast majority of those absences have come in the past two seasons. When City charged to an unprecedented four league titles in a row, Rodri missed just seven matchday squads &#8211; and three of those were through suspension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the start of the 2024-25 season, an ACL tear sustained five weeks before he won the Ballon d&#8217;Or meant he missed more than seven months of action; Liverpool won the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His current campaign has been blighted by a hamstring problem, but reassuringly for City fans, the numbers suggest Guardiola&#8217;s squad is learning to cope without the 29-year-old. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Of the 11 games he missed between late September and New Year&#8217;s Day, City won nine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the course of Rodri&#8217;s hugely successful Manchester City career,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manchester-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeepat.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}