Guardiola on the current pressure he is facing and City's poor form

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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola on the current pressure he is facing and their poor form ahead of the Manchester derby against United Etihad Training Campus, Manchester, UK

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00:00Before the Juventus game you spoke to Luca Toni and you spoke about a lot of human elements of

00:06your job, about your state of mind, about how nervous you're feeling, about the fact that you

00:12don't sleep well, that you don't eat well. I think a lot of people might be shocked or surprised to

00:19hear you talk about things like that. Is that the reality of being a football manager or is that the

00:25reality of the situation that your team is in at the moment? I think in our jobs always we

00:30will do our best and work the best as possible. If it doesn't happen you are more uncomfortable

00:35than when the situation is going well. Not just the managers, especially the people.

00:44Being in scrutiny for every step that we do as a team, it always happens, but I'm fine.

00:51So, of course, when I have more thoughts about what happened, what can you do and

00:58what I feel right now is like I feel the last three weeks, one month and every press conference

01:03when I see what is the situation. Nothing changed, absolutely. I'm really pleased for the way we

01:09played and I have a certain moral authority what happened in my career as a football player and

01:17manager. The titles we won that I know perfectly when we are playing good or not good. We have to

01:23shoot more in the final third, we have to defend better, we have to avoid mistakes on both sides,

01:28but the game is there. As I said, it's a Liverpool game, a Bournemouth game, the rest of the games

01:34we were there. We are not consistent for 90 minutes, we are not consistent as a team. You

01:38know the reason why. I know the reason why. That's why we move forward, keep working. This is what

01:47we have to do. Does that make it easier for you when you go to bed at night to go to sleep thinking

01:57you're doing everything you can? I know when you win, you still want more, you can still demand

02:06more. It's not necessarily about winning and losing, but being at peace with yourself almost.

02:12You're doing the best you can. Do you do your best when you write the article in this press

02:17conference? Yeah, I'm pretty sure of that. I don't know how many people read to you what you write,

02:23I don't know, but you want to do your best. I want to do my best. I want to do my best in the

02:28good moments, we are happier, but when I write the next game I'm concerned about the same right now,

02:33what I have to do, what line-up will be right, will be wrong. I do the same. There is no human

02:39being that doesn't make an activity like they want to do. It doesn't matter, it doesn't happen,

02:44it's the same. And all the managers are more concerned with me because I have responsibility

02:49for these people, for the players, for the supporters that support the club more than

02:54anyone else. They want to do well, but sometimes, for the reason I explained last month,

03:01still we have to keep working, keep working. Sometimes, in the period you go through in the

03:09bad moments, in the bad times, you know that? But the problem, you have to keep working,

03:14but the problem is the bad moments, it's not you. It's the situation, but not you. You are fine,

03:21we are fine, but we don't have results and we have to, of course, do it, but even if it's not

03:28going to be a good result, you have to keep working. That's what you have to do, it's your only chance.

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