25-26 Premier League Matchday 5 Preview

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Hear from the managers ahead of week five of the 2025-26 Premier League season including Pep Guardiola and Mikel Arteta ahead of Manchester City vs Arsenal and David Moyes and Arne Slot ahead of the Merseyside Derby between Everton and Liverpool Various Locations, UK

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

00:09because Mikel is an extraordinary manager and what they increased the squad for this 4-5 transfer window.

00:21So it's an unbelievable squad, an unbelievable team.

00:25It's one of the toughest opponents you can find right now in Europe.

00:29It's about winning again and creating, you know, another good moment for us, consistency,

00:36competing against one of the best teams obviously in the world and good test for us to see our level as well.

00:43The man that he puts first of all on himself, the standards that he requires for everybody around him,

00:47his will to win, to evolve, to improve, you look around him always, he wants to surrender about the best people.

00:55For me, he's by far the best coach in the world, I always said it, I had the pleasure to work with him

01:00and win a lot with him next to him, so yeah, it's always great to see him back.

01:06Good team. Indeed, there is rivalry, but what I also liked, and I want to emphasise in this moment maybe on that as well,

01:15what they did when Djokovic passed away coming to Anfield.

01:19In these moments of times it's so nice to see that in those tragedies the rivalry is still there,

01:24but the respect towards both is also there.

01:27So yeah, looking forward to the game tomorrow because every Anfield game is special,

01:33but this Derby is even more special.

01:38We have another game, we prepare for it, we want to keep our good form going

01:42and we look forward to going to Anfield and seeing how we perform.

01:46Any big derbies in any big cities are always really important.

01:50This has always been an incredibly difficult game for me personally because we've always come up against

01:55a really good Liverpool teams, whatever it's been, teams who've had some great players over the years

02:01and made it really hard for us, but we've always been competitive, it will not change.

02:08We'll always do everything we can to try and get a victory.

02:11This is football and this is the club with more pressure maybe in the world, but we want to win.

02:18We need to be more aggressive in the boxes, we need to be more clinical.

02:22The rest, I think we are improving and comparing to last year, I think we are in the better place.

02:28But again, we need to win. We lost against Arsenal and we lost against City.

02:32And here losing, especially in the beginning after last season is a problem.

02:39I think it's always difficult to play United away in their stadium or Trafford.

02:46So I don't think that now is the right moment or next year will be the right moment or last year.

02:51was the right moment. It's always difficult. It's a difficult team, it's a difficult stadium.

02:56I watch the games that they played this season. Some of the game is not a real result in terms of even City game.

03:04Until 1-0, 2-0 they were in the game. When the game was 0-0, they had a few chances to score

03:09and to go ahead on the result. So it will be a tough game, no doubt.

03:14Well, everybody.

03:15Good luck.

03:16Good luck.

03:17Good luck.

03:21I will see you in the next episode.

03:26Good luck.

03:29Bye.

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