{"id":1759,"date":"2026-10-27T12:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/maresca-defends-donnarumma-guehi-after-man-city-defeat\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T12:46:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T12:46:29","slug":"maresca-defends-donnarumma-guehi-after-man-city-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/27\/maresca-defends-donnarumma-guehi-after-man-city-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Maresca defends Donnarumma, Guehi after Man City defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"1024\" height=\"670\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Maresca-defends-Donnarumma-Guehi-after-Man-City-defeat.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Maresca defends Donnarumma, Guehi after Man City defeat\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Maresca-defends-Donnarumma-Guehi-after-Man-City-defeat.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AFP__20261024__D4AY6ZP__v1__MidRes__FblEngPrAstonVillaManCity-1-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AFP__20261024__D4AY6ZP__v1__MidRes__FblEngPrAstonVillaManCity-1-768x502.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/AFP__20261024__D4AY6ZP__v1__MidRes__FblEngPrAstonVillaManCity-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Manchester City boss Enzo Maresca on Tuesday defended goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and centre-back Marc Guehi after costly mistakes in their first Premier League defeat of the season at Aston Villa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nicolas Jackson took advantage of errors from the pair as Villa won 2-1 on Saturday, ending City\u2019s perfect run of seven wins from seven league games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defeat left City level on points with champions Arsenal at the top of the table, but they are ahead of the Gunners on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maresca spoke up for his players ahead of a tough League Cup fourth-round match against Brighton at the Etihad on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGigio (Donnarumma), I think, since we started, is doing well. Like any player, like any manager, at some point is making some mistakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut it\u2019s part of the season. Again, they are playing so many games, so many minutes, that sometimes it\u2019s almost impossible to (not) make some mistakes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And Maresca said he was \u201ccompletely happy\u201d with England defender Guehi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBecause in the way he reacts, he\u2019s fantastic, he\u2019s a top guy,\u201d he said. \u201cAgain, he\u2019s one of the captains, he\u2019s a leader, and I love Marc, to be honest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAnd again, it\u2019s the same with Gigio \u2014 when they make some mistakes, they recognise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maresca said Donnarumma was among a group of players who had been given time off to recharge after the Villa defeat, also including Erling Haaland, Elliot Anderson, Josko Gvardiol and captain Ruben Dias.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAfter Villa, we gave five players three days off to recover energy \u2014 Erling, Ruben, Elliot, Gigio and Josko,\u201d he said. \u201cThey are all on holiday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AFP<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/10\/maresca-defends-donnarumma-guehi-after-man-city-defeat\/\">Maresca defends Donnarumma, Guehi after Man City defeat<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City boss Enzo Maresca on Tuesday defended goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and centre-back Marc Guehi after costly mistakes in their first Premier League defeat of the season at Aston Villa.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}