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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola on having to play their League Cup game against Watford less than 48 hours after their Premier League game against Arsenal next weekend and the problems of fixture congestion Etihad training campus, Manchester, UK

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00:00Can I just ask you another kind of technical question?

00:04During the international break, you were told that you would have to play your League Cup game

00:10against Watford on a Tuesday night, two days after you play Arsenal.

00:15You've always been a manager that's taken the League Cup very seriously.

00:18What implications does that future schedule have on you and how you'll approach the competition?

00:24It's going to happen many cases, it's going to happen many, many times,

00:29this kind of situation for the teams that play in all competitions.

00:33So they give an alternative to play on Thursday away, in London, to have more days,

00:40but I have to have a Saturday game in Newcastle,

00:43and we prioritise, of course, to have more rest for Newcastle,

00:49and we're going to play on Tuesday.

00:50Because we cannot play on Wednesday, and apparently we should be,

00:53because on Thursday play United, Europa League, and for the police it's not accepted.

01:01But it's going to happen many times,

01:03and when someone's going to create a new competition, it will be even worse.

Fixture congestion a real problem - Guardiola

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