{"id":874,"date":"2024-08-01T16:50:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T06:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/?p=874"},"modified":"2024-08-01T16:51:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T06:51:17","slug":"what-changed-phil-foden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/2024\/08\/01\/what-changed-phil-foden\/","title":{"rendered":"What changed Phil Foden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jasper Farley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This season Phil Foden has been lighting up the Premier League with 19 goals and 8<br>assists. Helping Man City win their fourth consecutive Premier League in a row and winning<br>player of the season. This is a significant improvement from last year. From on the bench to<br>the premier league\u2019s best player &#8211; we need to ask what happened. One of the things that<br>makes him good is the versatility he has had to use this season playing in 5 positions<br>including left wing, right wing, center forward, center mid and central attacking midfielder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the main things that has changed is the fact that Pep Guardiola is playing him more<br>than last season. He has played all but 3 of Man Cities Premier League games. Also, last<br>season he was not played where he plays best, centrally, but he was played on the wings.<br>But now he is being played centrally. This significant role has allowed him to assist his<br>teammates from all over the pitch. He only played one game in the middle last season, in<br>the last game. But now that he has been played more often, in the position he plays best,<br>he has gotten 19 premier league goals (including 2 hat-tricks), 8 premier league assists,<br>player of the season and a premier league trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a huge step up from last season where he got 11 goals and 5 assists. One noticeable<br>thing about his stats is that it is clear his confidence has increased. Completing over<br>double the number of shots making more opportunities for him to score. The reason he is<br>getting all these shots on is his positioning sometimes drifting in from the wing and<br>sometimes moving up from central areas to get that clinical touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now as the season ends, he has won the best player of the season award. This is an<br>amazing achievement for the 24-year-old to be Manchester City&#8217;s best player at such an<br>early age and helping the Citizens win their 4th premier league in a row when Man City<br>seemed down and out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In conclusion, Phil Foden has improved so drastically by getting more game time and being<br>played centrally. With the mix of Phil Foden\u2019s talent, skill and football IQ. This has made<br>Phil Foden become one of the best players in the whole world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jasper Farley This season Phil Foden has been lighting up the Premier League with 19 goals and 8assists. Helping Man City win their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[27,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beyondschool","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newington.nsw.edu.au\/student-magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}