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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola reacts to their shock 2-1 defeat to Brighton & Hove Albion

31/08/2025

Amex Stadium, Brighton, UK
Transcript
00:00Good afternoon everyone, I hope you're well. We'll take a show of hands for questions please.
00:12Somewhere to start?
00:15Somewhere to start guys? Simon?
00:30We're sure if we shoot again, we forgot to play. We decided to play long, it's fine, more direct, but we have to be ready to be there, and we were in the mix that we were not ready to win the second, it wouldn't happen, of course the momentum in the Premier League always happens after goal, we can't do that, but in that moment we forgot to stop to play, like we have done brilliantly the first hour, and a tough opponent always have been, and we play, yeah, we play really, really good, we create a lot,
00:59but after the goal, like really the sports, that we play really, really good in the beginning, we can see the goal, and after that we are more, yeah, we are a little bit, a little bit more unstable, and non-stable because I know how good they are, how strong they are, it's because we forget to continue playing, you know, you never, never can stop the playing.
01:21And is that something in the heads of the players, or is it likely to say?
01:25No, we just at the beginning of the season, of course, the sport is always difficult, but of course we have to find a way that they are not to win games, and we lost the last two.
01:38He's injured for, yeah, two months, more or less, seven, eight weeks, yeah.
01:46Brighton obviously changed the momentum of the game, you stopped playing, are you looking for more leadership on the pitch from your players?
01:53Oh, we have, I have, I have, it just sometimes happens, so, now, yeah, we have a deficit for six points, you have to continue, you know, to, to grow up, I had the feeling, I had a good feeling in many, many things,
02:08I like a lot of the way in different circumstances, the physical team to play the way we played in the first hour,
02:13but after, yeah, we, we, we, we stopped to play.
02:21Rodri, you spoke after the game, you said that the team are making kid mistakes too often, do you see it like that way, bro?
02:28Well, we started the season right now, so, again, it was, we didn't make a mistake, and, and making mistakes just the beginning, we see what happened,
02:37so, I had the feeling that, uh, we are more intense, more active, we are more, in a good moment, that, uh, comparing last season, that, uh, but,
02:46uh, last season lost against the Spurs in Brighton, this season happened the same.
02:53No, it's, it's to know exactly, if you decide to play long-burn momentum, it's fine, you decide to play short, short, but when we play in the build-up that we like to make the process,
03:21like we have done in the first half, and let them run, so we have to do all together, and when they say long ball, we go all together,
03:28we have to know exactly when you go there, go there for the second, but sometimes the momentum, change the shapes, and change the moment,
03:34receive the ball a bit more higher, and after we make the control, we can do it, and in this ambivalence, that we don't know exactly,
03:39that is what we miss in the last hour, sometimes it's not easy.
03:43I was a football player, I understand completely, so, I never blame in that position, so it's learned for that, and,
03:49after international break, we'll have the transfer windows over, we'll have the team, and we'll work on that.
03:56And with the winning goal, possibly, back-forward, or expert, or outside, it's a question of tie, that in the moment we attack,
04:07we press really, really well, the clearance was short, and other side will not close that gap, and that's why you can see the goal,
04:16again, fast, fast players, you know, with Kusa, can handle it, because it's so fast, but unfortunately,
04:21have a knock, and kick, and have a problem with the muscular, and that's why it could not continue.
04:25So, is that, does that, does not believe it?
04:27In general, I've been really well, you know, high pressing, and how we recover quick, it was an action that,
04:32I put it more in the last minute, they are tired, and they have to come back, that's all.
04:37Sorry, I made the injury, but you think it's more, no, no, no, no, I think Kusa's fine, it's fine.
04:41Your team, and many of these players, have achieved so much in Manchester City,
04:47what, perhaps, is missing from this team, compared to when you were at your best?
04:54There is no one team in England, it's 35 years, all the time being the same, the people change,
04:59the team change, the players change, and we change a lot, last season, this season,
05:03for the players that, but we have a fan base, I would say, or base, like, is still really,
05:08very good, and the new players are really good too, it's a question of click,
05:12it makes a fan of momentum, that when we are going to start winning games, it's going to happen.
05:16Does what happened today, change it all, how you might behave in the next 24 hours,
05:21when the transfer marking?
05:22No.
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