Guardiola claims Rodri is underrated best midfielder in the world

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00:00 "I want Kevin to be in the final third. He has not to defend deeper. I want Kevin in

00:11 the final third. It's his talent. Huge talent is there."

00:15 "Yeah, but I've said when you attack at final third he can move a little bit of freedom

00:28 and right and left to make his incredible talent. By which drop is it enough? In the

00:33 moment you have to defend. And the role from Rodrigo in the last season or Bernardo this

00:38 season or Kovac this season, he has not."

00:40 "It's necessary to know it. We live in that. We are not the hierarchy of clubs. The reality

01:05 is what we have done is difficult to sustain it for a long time. That's why I give credit

01:12 when we go to Copenhagen or go. Still we are there. I give a lot of credit to my team.

01:18 A lot. But my responsibility is, OK, let's go. Let's try to do it again. Not in 94 minutes.

01:24 So it's not necessary in the years to come or this result to know that never, never in

01:28 this sport, in football, in this competition, this league, with these contenders, it's easy.

01:35 It looks like for the people that is not involved in that, but it's not. Always it's difficult.

01:41 That's why it's nice. It was easy. With sense. It's necessary."

01:46 "Even after today, you win on Tuesday and it's back to just a point. So that's the main

01:52 focus now, I would take it."

01:54 "Absolutely. Winning or losing is on to next. That is the point. Of course, now it's recovery

01:58 two days and prepare the game against Brentford. That's always been really, really tough. Let's

02:05 go."

02:06 "You said yesterday you were going to check on Jack Rielis's injury after the press conference.

02:10 Did you?"

02:11 "It's not that much, that worse than we expect. So it will be maybe 10 days. Maybe it was

02:19 three weeks, a month. I think it's less. So it's good news."

02:23 "You got the machine fixed?"

02:25 "Sorry?"

02:26 "You got the machine fixed?"

02:27 "Yeah."

02:28 "I think it's the fifth game in the last few that you've come back from behind in a match.

02:39 Do you feel like your team are more resilient and better at responding to setbacks?"

02:44 "When we lose a game, we lose it that we are from behind. We always make a step forward.

02:53 In other games, we start with a 'what' and it was not our best."

03:02 "Is there a particular reason why you think the team is better?"

03:06 "No, in general. It's not once. Otherwise it's easy. It's different once. It's just

03:10 a vibe. Team is a team. Team means everybody is involved. The build-up is not good. The

03:15 people in the middle there, perhaps maybe it's not good. We lost a lot of duels. We

03:19 lost in Stamford Bridge in the second half after the goal. We won it. There are many,

03:24 many concepts that help to have the tempo of the game. Against a team well-organised

03:30 and the quality they have in all departments and the players. We know it. It's a really

03:38 good team. Brilliant future, present future. We knew it. We spoke about that yesterday

03:43 at Stamford Bridge Conference with the team. They make a little bit of a click. They play

03:49 really good, good talent players. We know it. But sometimes they play a lot of games,

03:57 travel to Copenhagen. The rest is less. These kind of things that we prepare. Sometimes

04:07 we need it and after we realise it's happened. As a manager I cannot expect all the games

04:14 to be top, top. We were able to draw and at the end we could win for the chances and for

04:21 the purpose. In the second half we see, OK, I like this team. We defend well. We play

04:28 really good on both sides. We have a lot of crosses, chances in the five metres. And other

04:35 things. It's what it is.

04:38 What does that say about him? Do you think he's a player who's not fully appreciated?

05:01 I would say the Holy Midfielder don't get appreciation, the striker, the number 10,

05:04 that is good. So when a Holy Midfielder has a lot of appreciation it's not good. The Holy

05:09 Midfielder has to play for the team, for him and for the team and make the team play. This

05:12 is the role for the Holy Midfielder. All the highlights have to be for the guys up front,

05:17 score goals and assists and so on. But really always have the ability in important moments

05:23 even high score goals. So he's an unbelievable player. He's the best midfielder player in

05:30 the world by far. He's able to do everything. So the tempo, especially his character, when

05:37 the situation is going wrong, make him step forward, arrive to the box, the backwards

05:42 and the ability to play the short, the long and always ready. What a sign. Manchester

05:50 City sign a player that it's difficult to understand what we have done in recent years

05:55 without him. It would have been difficult.

05:58 Julian Alvarez has started every Premier League game this season, so he's stayed ever present.

06:05 That's obviously a really hard thing to do in this squad with so many talented players.

06:09 What is it that Julian Alvarez gives to the team in games like this and keeps giving to

06:12 the team through the season? I know he's playing a bit deeper this year. What's kept him in

06:17 the team?

06:18 Well, he's a guy with a sense of goal. The movement between lines and having another

06:24 guy when the team defends so, so deep, it happens quite often, having a guy with a sense

06:29 of goal is important. I think he plays because he deserves it. In that sense, from Erling

06:36 to Mount was a kicky point with Field. He's really good in that terms.

06:42 Thank you guys.

06:43 Thank you. Good night.

06:44 (thudding)

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