Guardiola on Man City’s shock 2-0 Spurs win at the Etihad

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Guardiola on Man City’s shock 2-0 Spurs win at the Etihad  23/08/2025  Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK

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00:00A show of hands for questions, please.

00:01We'll set an embargo towards the end for 10.30 p.m. on Sunday evening.

00:05Someone start, Jamie?

00:09Hi, Pep.

00:10May I just ask about the goalkeeper decision to select James Trafford ahead of Ederson?

00:15Is that just purely on form, what you're seeing in training?

00:17Or is it maybe to do with Ederson possibly leaving the club

00:20and you want to have a sort of group here who are...

00:22No, he made a good first game, James,

00:27and I'm going to decide to make another continue.

00:30So when I take a decision, normally in the first part of the season,

00:34the first, not just for the keeper.

00:35The keeper is a special position, of course,

00:38to have more consistency in the goal.

00:40But for all the players, when you play one or two games

00:42and everybody thinks, okay, this is the start line now,

00:45this is the players going to play.

00:46And I learned for many years that this amount of games,

00:49everybody will play it.

00:50It will be important.

00:51Just today I decide that.

00:53Son?

00:54I bet we saw, I know it's a different manager,

00:59a different type of manager,

00:59but we saw last season the Spurs keeper have an outstanding first period.

01:04You had a few chances before they scored.

01:07Was it crucial that you needed to score when you had those chances

01:11and that's what turned the game?

01:12But the game against the Spurs in this season is different.

01:15It's one is already built up.

01:17There's been marking like it was before in the Brentford,

01:19and you have to really play in a different way.

01:21We talked about that, that we didn't apply.

01:24Maybe after, especially what we miss,

01:27we miss the simple things.

01:28They never ask to play exceptional things,

01:30so they miss the simple things.

01:32Well, the first two efforts and run,

01:34and that is extraordinary since many, many years.

01:39So I don't have doubts.

01:40Last season, no for lack of energy,

01:42but in the States, in the preseason,

01:45the trainings have been really, really good.

01:47But in that pressure, we miss the simple things

01:51and read better what they should do.

01:53And after that, in the final third,

01:55we create chances that never is easy.

01:57We create enough.

02:00But it's happened.

02:01It's football.

02:02So that and just the second game,

02:05and last season, last game,

02:07against both the people say,

02:09okay, now everything is fine.

02:11And I said, yes, it's the first game,

02:12so many things are going to happen.

02:14It's the same right now.

02:15So I know what we're working,

02:18what the players are doing,

02:20and many good things I have.

02:23Of course, we have to improve.

02:24But I said, against both the same,

02:27the second half, so we have to improve.

02:30And then step by step,

02:31until we make the click,

02:32it will make the good connections for many things.

02:35They still are new.

02:38And yeah, now for seven days,

02:40we prepared the last game

02:41before international break.

02:43Hi, Pep.

02:44Two questions, please.

02:45Your assistant, Kolo Touré,

02:47had a very active presence

02:48in the technical area today.

02:50What exactly was his role or task here in the game?

02:53And why were Gundogan and Akanji

02:55left out of the squad, please?

02:57I'll start for the second.

02:58Last season, last game was

02:59Rodri and Gundogan,

03:00Rodri, sorry, and fill out.

03:03So I've seen many times

03:04with the deeper squad.

03:05I have to rotate.

03:06The next game, maybe,

03:07there will be another one.

03:08So there is not touch.

03:09Try to be everybody involved.

03:11And no more,

03:12no more secrets than that.

03:14And the first,

03:17Kolo is my assistant.

03:19He's an incredible passion

03:20and joy and active.

03:22And I like to be everybody

03:23being involved in there.

03:24And he feels to stand up

03:25to say some instructions.

03:27I like what they say.

03:29They do it.

03:31Set the embargo there for 10 seconds.

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