{"id":503727,"date":"2023-01-12T22:30:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=503727"},"modified":"2023-01-12T23:14:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T23:14:01","slug":"joleon-lescott-insists-there-is-nothing-to-fear-for-man-city-at-old-trafford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/joleon-lescott-insists-there-is-nothing-to-fear-for-man-city-at-old-trafford","title":{"rendered":"Joleon Lescott insists there is nothing to fear for Man City at Old Trafford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joleon Lescott believes Manchester City have nothing to fear as they head to Old Trafford for this weekend&#8217;s derby.The former City defender also thinks rivals Manchester United are at least two years away from being able to challenge City for the Premier League title.Defending champions City face a crunch test in their bid to overhaul Arsenal at the top of the table when they face their resurgent neighbours across town on Saturday.United have won their last eight games in all competitions and a derby victory would take them within a point of City, who are also reeling from a surprise Carabao Cup quarter-final loss to Southampton in midweek.Yet Pep Guardiola&#8217;s side have lost just two of their nine visits to Old Trafford and Lescott does not think they have anything to worry about now.The former City defender said: &#8220;With the greatest respect to Old Trafford, I don&#8217;t think there are many teams that are overawed now.&#8220;I think in recent years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joleon Lescott believes Manchester City have nothing to fear as they head to Old Trafford for this weekend&#8217;s derby. The former City defender also thinks rivals Manchester United are at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,135,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","category-soccer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}