Guardiola baffled by City run as Utd comeback to win derby 2-1

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Guardiola baffled by City run as Utd comeback to win derby 2-1  15/12/2024  Etihad stadium, Manchester, UK

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00:00Evening guys, we're maxed on either side, we'll take a show of hands, come to as many

00:13of you as we can.

00:14Somewhere to start, Simon.

00:15Pep, I presume when there's two minutes left you think you're going to win that game.

00:26What do the last two minutes mean in terms of you and your job and how you get out of

00:34this cycle?

00:35No, listen, in the past maybe I could presume that we could win with two minutes left but

00:41in the situation that there aren't the Anthony Taylors saying go to the shower, I never thought

00:47about that.

00:48It's true that we are not fluid, so we were a team that always played with this composure

00:54that we don't have, especially for the amount of games losing and at the same time it's

01:04normal but sometimes the spirit or the strength helps you to find, you know, sometimes the

01:11game in this time of games today it was more OK, we were there, we were there and we were

01:16there.

01:17But it's not about this situation, it's happened many times.

01:23I don't have defence, I'm the boss, I'm the manager, I have to find a solution and I don't

01:27find a solution.

01:28So this is a big club and a big club when you lose 8-10, something wrong has happened.

01:35So I can say the schedule is tough, the injuries of the players, yeah, but no, 3-0, 75 minutes

01:46they will lose the game.

01:47Do you think it's the injuries, the schedule?

01:48No, we have to win that game, today we have to win that game.

01:51Because except, I would say, except the action from Bruno Fernandes, because Anthony Taylor

01:57has done, the gesture always has done for nine years to our team, it is fault, you can

02:03see that, but except of that nothing will happen, even no play good.

02:08I know when the play play good, no play good, but the pressure, the tension.

02:12And in that position, so, yeah, we give away again and we have to do, keep working, but

02:19I'm the boss, I'm the manager and I'm not good enough, it's as simple as that.

02:24I have to find a way to talk to them, to train to them, the way you have to play, the way

02:30you have to press, the way you have to build up and I'm not good enough, I'm not doing

02:35well, that is the truth.

02:37We have to say this, always it's the same problem, it's been fixed.

02:41You know, I say, no, it's that player, it's fixed, no play, but it's not that.

02:46Mateos, the incredible effort he played in the left back, he played really, really, really,

02:51really good, with or without, but, you know, it's happened, it's football and move forward.

02:58Hi Pep, back to your left, sorry to ask a blunt question, but you've been here a long

03:05time, does it ever cross your mind that you might be running out of energy or magic?

03:13I didn't have the energy and magic before.

03:17I have incredible energy, in the touchline I was there, but the magic, I was no magician,

03:24I was no magic when I won, and never you saw me here in the press conference after one

03:27world we won, I said, ah, magician, I'm a magic, I've done this, but always we were

03:31able, I put the plural, we were able to find a way, you know, to get back the bad moments

03:36and support in the way we played and everything, and me as a manager, I cannot say because

03:42Roy is not here, the central defenders are not here, yeah, of course, it's the main

03:46reason, but when you are at the end with 73 minutes against Feyenoord that we were already

03:51qualified for the next stage and today, it's about that, this is something I'm missing,

03:56something...

03:57What about the energy?

03:58Sorry?

03:59What about the energy?

04:00Ah, the energy, listen, when you win games, the energy is higher, you know that?

04:02When you lose games, you're down, but this is my job, my job is not just to win games

04:07or lose trophies, I'm incredibly well paid for that reason, to handle that situation,

04:14to go into the press conference, to accept all the criticisms that at least one man had,

04:19but I want to be honest, maybe in one year or a year and a half, we were able to lose

04:24eight games, in one or two seasons, I don't know the numbers, but maybe one season, one

04:30year and a half, and now in one month and ten days or twelve days before, we were top

04:33of the league, and the only team unbeaten in Europe, and after one month and ten days,

04:40we lost eight games to them, and this is a big club, and the club, of course, cannot

04:44accept it, so, I said the same, I'm still here sitting in the press conference, because

04:50we have done it in the past, otherwise, in the big clubs, they don't sustain the manager

04:54that way, and they have to, and I promise you, I try it, I think all the managers around

05:00the world, when they are in big problems, they work harder and think more and talk more

05:05about what they have to do to get them, guys, still, we are so good, but, so I knew, I knew

05:16that it would be a tough season from the beginning, I said many times, even when we were winning,

05:21but I didn't expect it was so hard, like it was right now.

05:25Pep, no matter how good a team is, it becomes very difficult to win games when so many individuals

05:32are making mistakes and lapses, I know it was known as today, but in other games, it

05:37has been lots of other individual players.

05:38That's the point.

05:39Have you been able to, for any reason, is it confidence, is it fatigue, is it just that

05:47they have lost their edge?

05:48Football is, like all in life, it's the emotions, it's how you feel, you know, how you are there,

05:55in the difficult problems, all my problems, when you are there, it happens, and now we

05:59are more anxious with the ball, we are more anxious without the ball, so the worst thing

06:05as a defender, on the position, like a striker in the boxes, when you are anxious, we don't

06:10have this composure and calm, and nothing wrong is going to happen, you have this calm

06:15and shaken decision, now it's bad.

06:17Where do you get that?

06:18Momentums, the confidence, many things, and our standards are high, and there, and we

06:26are not able to reach it, we put pressure, me, myself, first, and the players do it,

06:31and all the mistakes we have done is because we solve it with, oh, it's the end of the

06:35world, and there are so many chances, relax.

06:38If you are dribbling in the box, always you have tempo, you have time to take, you know

06:44that, and now, we are not doing this.

06:47Two more guys, James and Simon, please.

06:50James?

06:51Simon, you have defended the players a lot, and for good reason, because of what they

06:54have achieved here, but given your relationship with them, given how long you have been with

06:58them, can you be ruthless enough, say, at the end of the season, to make the tough decisions

07:03that you might have to make, based on the way the season is going?

07:06The end of the season will be the end of the season, so, the end of the season will be

07:12the end of the season.

07:13Of course, this club is a big club already, and cannot sustain it for a long, long time,

07:18this situation, with the manager or with the players, that is obvious.

07:22So, we have to change something.

07:27I'm here, but we have to eight to ten, so I'm the responsible for everything.

07:36For me, it will be easy to say, no, we lost for this action, for that action, for that

07:41action, for that player, or for the situation for the club, do this, or the club do that.

07:48This is not like that.

07:50Football is a team, it's everything, the momentum and everything, and I completely,

07:57completely convince what I'm saying, that I'm not good enough to find a way to that

08:05players feel the peace in their bodies, in his mind, to play, it doesn't matter what

08:10happens, that I'm not good.

08:14Are you worried you might not be able to turn it around at all?

08:17I want it, desperately.

08:19I know you want it, but do you ever think, maybe I'm not the man to turn this around?

08:22With eight to ten?

08:24With eight defeats to ten?

08:26But I'm here to try, and I will try again and again.

08:30That is the reality.

08:34What are you more concerned by, the fact that you're losing composure when you're in

08:38control of the game?

08:39No, the game was not in control of the game.

08:42I know when we are controlling the game.

08:44I know when we play good.

08:46I know.

08:48But right now, there are a lot of games in this period, the many years we have played

08:53here, that we have not played good and we are able to get it.

08:56We are able to get it.

08:58And now, for the situation, in some moments, we have not the feeling that one mistake,

09:05one action, we're going to concede a goal.

09:07And now we are in that moment.

09:09And when the situation went bad, sometimes the situation is solved, we go post outside,

09:14now it's coming in.

09:15So, it's happened.

09:17But it's not the first time in this run that you've not only conceded one goal, but then

09:21gone on to lose the game by conceding multiple goals?

09:24No, I would say that this season, with the final lot, is when we start to go down and

09:28we come back.

09:30That is the only thing this season was really good, many times.

09:34And when you were there, in our pass, our game, our, you know, Kovac came in and Gundu

09:39was in a position more up front.

09:41We have a momentum that, OK, that is where it is.

09:43OK, bring it, that is the position.

09:45But unfortunately, at the end, we lost it.

09:49And listen, I can say here, again, the arguments that the guys who are every day in the pre-conference

09:54have said, but it's an 8 to 10.

09:57So, it's no defense.

09:59I can make a thousand million arguments.

10:01We have to find a way, like in the past happened.

10:03We found a way all the time to find the solutions, and now we are not.

10:07Thank you, guys.

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