{"id":89471,"date":"2022-07-29T14:56:34","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T14:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/liverpool-and-man-city-face-new-challenge-to-make-old-solutions-work-after-darwin-nunez-and-erling-haaland-transfers"},"modified":"2022-07-29T14:56:34","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T14:56:34","slug":"liverpool-and-man-city-face-new-challenge-to-make-old-solutions-work-after-darwin-nunez-and-erling-haaland-transfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/liverpool-and-man-city-face-new-challenge-to-make-old-solutions-work-after-darwin-nunez-and-erling-haaland-transfers","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool and Man City face new challenge to make old solutions work after Darwin Nunez and Erling Haaland transfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The words came from Jurgen Klopp &#8217;s mouth but it could have been Pep Guardiola speaking. &#8220;He&#8217;s a different striker to what we have or what we had, but he&#8217;s a really good one,&#8221; said the Liverpool manager. He was talking about Darwin Nunez , while Guardiola may spend much of Manchester City &#8217;s season discussing Erling Haaland . Their flagship signings are the sorts of players they neither had nor, perhaps, needed. City and Liverpool scored a combined total of 297 goals last season. Very few came from actual strikers: with Gabriel Jesus rebranding himself as a right winger, arguably none of City&#8217;s 150 did. Maybe only Divock Origi , who was responsible for six of Liverpool&#8217;s 147, qualified as a conventional centre-forward at Anfield. Diogo Jota could excel in the middle in his own fashion, Sadio Mane proved a remarkable success as a No 9 and Roberto Firmino remains Anfield&#8217;s definitive false nine. But arguably none would have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The words came from Jurgen Klopp&#8217;s mouth but it could have been Pep Guardiola speaking. &#8220;He&#8217;s a different striker to what we have or what we had, but he&#8217;s a<\/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],"tags":[142,139,138,58],"class_list":["post-89471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-premier-league","tag-champions-league","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89471","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=89471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}