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27th Dec 2020

Stunning deepfake shows Guardiola rapping to Eminem’s Lose Yourself

This is possibly the greatest use of deepfake technology we've ever seen. Pep Guardiola's flow is unreal. Eminem would be proud

JOE

We have no option but to stan

Much mirth was made of Pep Guardiola’s appearance ahead of Manchester City’s comfortable Boxing Day victory over Newcastle United. The Citizens may have cruised to a 2-0 win over their tepid visitors courtesy of goals from Ilkay Gundogan and Ferran Torres, but everyone was talking about poor Pep’s hooded attempts to avoid the torrential Mancunian downpour.

Each parody and every social media pisstake was however blown out of the water by Kristian von Streng Haehre’s incredible take on the casually clothed Catalan. Noticing a resemblance to 8 Mile-era Eminem, the TV2 content wizard went about creating an incredible deepfake video of Guardiola rapping a cappella to 2002 classic ‘Lose Yourself’. The result is simply astonishing.