Guardiola on the challenge of facing Arteta’s Arsenal and the need to be at their best

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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola on the challenges of facing Mikel Arteta’s Arsenal in the Premier League and the need to be at their best to get a result Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK

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00:00Hi Pep, have you re-watched the defeat at Arsenal last season this week at all?

00:07Is there anything you look back and take from that game?

00:10Or is it one of those off days you had last season that you just try and knock it back on?

00:13The game last season, it happened many times last season.

00:18And the 14 team, we gave a thousand million goals.

00:22And after we were, during a lot of the time, pretty good,

00:27considering how it was last season, and the last 50-20 minutes was a disaster.

00:33We forgot to do what we had to do, and everyone do it there,

00:36and after that, Arsenal was easy for them.

00:41But hopefully this season we can make a little bit more challenge in the last years,

00:47because Mikel is an extraordinary manager,

00:52and what they increased the squad for these 4-5 transfer windows.

00:59So it's an unbelievable squad, an unbelievable team.

01:03It's one of the toughest opponents you can find right now in Europe.

01:07And we see what we have to do, and the players how are fit, and we try to compete.

01:16Whether I want to compete or be a better team than I was in the last season,

01:20especially in the last 20-25 minutes.

01:23Do you think those kind of disastrous spells you had occasionally in games last season

01:26are gone now, that they're out of the system of this team?

01:29Sorry?

01:30You mentioned a disastrous 15-20 minutes there,

01:33and you had spells like that in a few games last season.

01:35Do you think they're gone now?

01:37They're a thing of the past for this team?

01:39You should ask me after Brighton, 10 days ago.

01:42I know what the people say.

01:44They were not good, really.

01:46I know my team is consistent,

01:48because when you win six Premier Leagues,

01:50we are being a machine.

01:52A consistent team.

01:53And for that they have to prove more.

01:55But, of course, we arrived the week against United, against Napoli,

02:00and now that is not, I would say, an easy week,

02:02but in the Premier League always like that.

02:04And important feeling, the vibe of the team, body language especially.

02:08I'm just focused on that.

02:10The kindness and the body language of the team has grew up.

02:14And, yeah, I'm pretty pleased for that,

02:17and hopefully we can win or lose.

02:20We won't try, but when you see the team is in good and good vibe,

02:25that is what you have to try to do.

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