{"id":3247,"date":"2017-08-20T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/08\/20\/evertons-ronald-koeman-clean-sheet-at-manchester-city-may-be-tough-ask\/"},"modified":"2017-08-20T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T13:18:00","slug":"evertons-ronald-koeman-clean-sheet-at-manchester-city-may-be-tough-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=3247","title":{"rendered":"Everton\u2019s Ronald Koeman: clean sheet at Manchester City may be tough ask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 \u2018If we get a clean sheet I don\u2019t know if it will be a miracle\u2019\u2022 Everton\u2019s strong defence face biggest test so far at Etihad StadiumRonald Koeman has praised Everton\u2019s resilient start to the season but admitted it may take a miraculous performance to keep another clean sheet at Manchester City on Monday.Everton have yet to concede in the opening four competitive matches of this campaign, a club first, having shut out Ruzomberok and Hajduk Split in the Europa League, plus Stoke City in the Premier League. Jordan Pickford and Michael Keane, the joint record signings until the \u00a345m arrival of Gylfi Sigurdsson last week, have impressed in Koeman\u2019s new-look rearguard but, with City having also strengthened this summer, the Everton manager believes his defence will face its sternest test so far at the Etihad Stadium. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2017\/aug\/20\/ronald-koeman-clean-sheet-manchester-city-tough-ask-everton\" target=\"_blank\">Everton\u2019s Ronald Koeman: clean sheet at Manchester City may be tough ask<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 \u2018If we get a clean sheet I don\u2019t know if it will be a miracle\u2019\u2022 Everton\u2019s strong defence face biggest test so far at Etihad StadiumRonald Koeman has praised Everton\u2019s resilient start to the season but admitted it may take a miraculous performance to keep another clean sheet at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}