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Guardiola delighted with on City's 3-0 hammering of Liverpool
09/11/2025
Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK
09/11/2025
Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK
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00:00Good evening, everyone. I hope you're well. We'll take a show of hands for questions, please.
00:05I think the mics are here, so we'll go without.
00:07Ollie?
00:30Yeah, absolutely. So I don't want to betray myself, I would say, and I love when, I'm sorry, we take the ball and we pass it. That's why we press high to regain the ball as quick. And I like to see my team associated together in the short passes and combinations. And after the guys who have the ability to run or have one against one is what you have to do. So first half was really, really good defensively and offensively. Of course, the threat from Moore and behind always is the dangers.
00:58We have experience with that. The second half is the football. Always we talk about, I said in the flash interviews, always talk about the duels, you know, the duels, the duels. And everybody in our mindset is the duels and I win the ball to you defensively. But what is about the duels when I have the ball and I don't lose the ball? What happens when I have the ball and I'm being pressed and I keep the ball and make an extra pass? This is, we talk a lot these two or three days about that, about the duels. What happened in the second half? In the first five, ten minutes, we alone, you lose the ball.
01:26And when that's happened, the game always is more and more difficult. And I think all the players in the middle, with Jeremy, with Ryan, Cherkis, it was more difficult for Ryan because it was, the space was more in the left side, not in the right side today for the way they defend.
01:41But Bernie, but Bernie, and all back four, especially Bernie, and Phil, they were outstanding and keep in and do it there. And really pleased for the game. And just thank you for the players, the staff, the staff, to give me that incredible present, you know, to win the most important opponent that we face in our time here, ten years, so by far.
02:03And have been nice playing against them and see Virgil and Robertson and all the players that most alive have been a thousand million battles and hopefully will be more and more doing it against them because has been so special.
02:19And I think Pep Linders, my assistant right now, represented a little bit Jürgen, you know, because I've been there.
02:25So I've been a special night with my kids here, so they're really good.
02:28Jürgen?
02:41Well, I have been a nightmare Salah for many years.
02:46I was at Punishas and his speed and he's a talk by Nick always said, you know, you have to be aggressive, you know, have to be.
02:54Otherwise, and being helped, I think every time Mo had the ball,
02:59have a one or two, three players close, central defenders.
03:03And Jeremy's and Bernardos and Fields were close there to the lead,
03:06one against one.
03:07So it was an incredible work, team battles.
03:10And defensively was really, really good, especially in the first half.
03:15But Nico, Nico make a step back because at the end,
03:17you have to prove against the best wingers how you behave, how you perform.
03:21There's no bad example to do.
03:23You know, Faisal and Hunter is really good.
03:30Sorry?
03:32Yeah.
03:40I go with national team because Thomas is smart enough to see what he's playing.
03:47He's not been selected, but he's just been seen, but he figured out he can help.
03:50And he had many, many good attributes, but this aggressivity, intensity in the duels,
03:58I didn't have because it was number eight to ten.
04:00In the academy, it was number eight to ten.
04:03And playing that position and giving us stuttering the set pieces,
04:06it's aggressive, it's top.
04:09So in that term, it's, yeah, I'm so pleased with the way he's performing.
04:13I think Neva will be a top, top scorer, to be honest.
04:32But he's demanding himself to be better, he listens, and having a special entry, which he dribbles.
04:39So today, Conor, the right back from Liverpool, I'm really, really impressed.
04:46Peblinder told me a thousand incredible good things about that guy, so he can do everything.
04:50I mean, I know the game against Madrid, how good with Vinicius, Vinicius is, wow, right?
04:57So, and he handled it.
05:00So he was aggressive, with, without the ball, and we tried to help him.
05:04He's, yeah, I'm really, listen, he played an outstanding game.
05:09Outstanding game.
05:10James?
05:12Yeah.
05:12I say many times, not because we won when we lost in Aston Villa, we lost in the beginning
05:31of the season, and I have the team have a good vibe.
05:33I don't tell me why.
05:34And the reason why, look at the bench today, and even Kusa was not selected, so last season
05:41could not do that.
05:41So, we lost energy with the players we are filled.
05:45I think the four players in a row affect us in a bad, bad way, really, really bad way.
05:52We were not, like, I think this team has shown for many, many years.
05:56In one team, I would say, can be understandable a little bit.
06:00We tried to push each other, but we were not able to do it.
06:03Even with that, we finished third.
06:06When normally in that situation, it's in Premier League, you finish tenth.
06:08So, at the end, we never give up.
06:10In the first 50, 20 games, we were the best team in the Premier League.
06:14But since, I think, the World Cup in the States, I felt something differently that happened
06:22last season in general.
06:24And last season was not one reason.
06:26It was everyone was involved.
06:29Everyone.
06:29And me, the first.
06:32And that's why.
06:34So, people compete and try to feel that it's getting better, getting better.
06:40And I said last day, so, in October, November, you don't win the Premier League.
06:43The teams win the Premier League is when every month the team is growing.
06:46And you see the feeling, the team grows and grows and grows and grows.
06:49You arrive at the end fighting for the title.
06:52It's not the team was in September, October in the top.
06:55It has to grow.
06:56It can be top, it has to be better and better.
06:59And always, we won't have been like that.
07:00Always in the process, we talk a lot, we're training, training not much, but how do we play?
07:06And there's a feeling that we are in that way.
07:09And it's been nice.
07:10I still had the feeling that we are back in terms of many, many things.
07:15I didn't like the second half against Bournemouth.
07:17I didn't like the second half against Liverpool.
07:19I didn't like it all the last 30, 20 minutes, half an hour against BFAO.
07:25Really, really not like in the first half.
07:28So, okay, this is the point.
07:29They have to grow, you know, as a team.
07:32But, yeah, it was an important week, this one.
07:34With Bournemouth, they came second in the table.
07:38Like, you know, BFAO is always dangerous in Champions League.
07:42And Liverpool, we're going to say it.
07:43And we did a fantastic week for us.
07:46So, I'm in.
07:59I said many times, Bernardo was struggling a season.
08:03But I was there.
08:06Every single game.
08:08Exhausted.
08:09After 50, 60 minutes, couldn't run one minute.
08:12And certain moments, I said, Pep, I'm drained.
08:14My mind is not anymore.
08:16It's the feet.
08:16The feet.
08:17I don't know.
08:18But I was there.
08:20It was there.
08:21And I said many times, to the players and to him, that will not be forgotten.
08:26And everything is fine and everything is ready.
08:28No, no, no, no.
08:29That season.
08:30And Gundo was there.
08:32And many players were there.
08:32And that's why he's my captain.
08:35Because in the moments, it's proof that being agreed, disagree.
08:39We were disagreeing sometimes.
08:40Pep, we should do that.
08:41We should do that.
08:41It's fine.
08:43It's fine.
08:43We talk.
08:44But have been an incredible sign for us.
08:47And in the way we play today, he's a master.
08:50The tempo, the wind, the ball, the accelerate, the accelerate, the intuition, what is the
08:54spaces to be pressed or not, how to manage the situations and many things.
09:00He's one of the most cleverest, cleverest players I ever met in my period as a manager
09:05in these years.
09:07Robert and James, please.
09:08I'm pretty sure when Arsenal at the end was equalized from Sunderland, it can happen
09:28because I'm not surprised beyond what Sunderland is doing in the way he's doing.
09:33I think Liverpool are and myself say, oh, wow, have a, you know, they draw points finally.
09:39They conceded two goals.
09:41In that moment that they run, I said that will not happen.
09:44But at the end, we have to do it.
09:47And I said to the players, guys, don't do it because yesterday, Arsenal didn't win.
09:52We have to do it to believe ourselves.
09:54We play against the champions in England.
09:56The last ones, we play against them.
09:58We have to show them that we are able to be there with them, you know, all this season.
10:03And today, I think we prove it.
10:05We did it, especially in the first half.
10:08When you talk about that sort of walk of energy last season,
10:13you put yourself in that bracket, or do you look now like you've got a lot of energy
10:26and only during everything in the back?
10:27Yeah, but when I said the players, I didn't say the players.
10:33It said all of us, me the first.
10:35I didn't, I said last season many times.
10:37I tried desperately to do anything, but I was not able to click,
10:42to make a click to the team, to react and to do it.
10:44And, you know, and one of my mistakes was, I, now I realize I went the last season to,
10:53okay, we are injurious, we are tired, don't train much, less energy.
10:58It's completely opposite.
10:59We are not good enough for steam players.
11:01Academy, come on, run.
11:04We didn't bring the energy.
11:05When we come back with energy with the players, some players come back,
11:08and after we, we, we, we do it.
11:10So, always we, we played football with the ball.
11:13Obviously, it was clear, the way we decided to play when I arrived here,
11:17but we're in a team that run incredible, you know,
11:21and the pressing and go and jump and backwards and,
11:24we have been an example.
11:25Otherwise, you don't win in modern football, you know?
11:28And, and why understand the players?
11:29Why one or two players don't have to run and eight, nine players have to run?
11:34Why these nine players have to run for one or two players that run?
11:36No, in that team, everyone has to do an incredible effort.
11:39And after we, the ball, we see what happened.
11:40And last season, for many reasons, we were not able to do it.
11:43But it was a good lesson.
11:44Sometimes, you have to leave that as a club.
11:46For the club itself, it was good.
11:48I said many times, for my chairmen and CEOs, and the one, I said,
11:52guys, we survived last season, qualify for the Champions League.
11:56Yeah, that is a big, big prize.
11:57One of the seasons, I will remember the most, like, one of the more proud I am.
12:01Last season, for sure, happened.
12:03But, but even for the club, it's good to realize.
12:07The people, ah, four premiers in a row, we won finally the Champions League.
12:10Eighteen titles, and then, and then, and then, and then.
12:12And then all the records belong to us.
12:14This business is so difficult.
12:15And you have to, you can talk, it's difficult.
12:17We are so good.
12:18Everyone think about that, we are so good.
12:21No, no.
12:22This game, you are here, and here, you are down.
12:26But down, down.
12:26and you now lift decades to come back that's why it was good for the everyone
12:32and of course the club said okay we have to we are the youngest squad right now
12:39that I had in my period here the youngest squad we bought in international break
12:44international transfer window in winter players and not because we need that
12:49energy back any players that want to pick a career here and we need Cherkis
12:53we need Ryan Norris we need you know we need Nick O'Reilly we need all this
13:00energy to try to emulate what the professors have done it's a normal
13:04process and the club understood that and and everyone in the beginning was oh
13:08what happened that season that's a good sign it's a good sign
13:23no absolutely the last season said oh what happened woman city it's not winning
13:29during the season going to win again the Premier League is what is going to forgive
13:33being given and I said no guys it's not it's not about that what we have done is
13:40a winning winning we are continuing continue and one in a year we got that but
13:44then it is I had the feeling is back and we can play in different ways now I think
13:48we are more unpredictable I would say in the way we attack in the way we defend
13:52that is good for for other for the not good food you know when the opponents
13:58don't know maybe what we're going to do but especially is the you know that good
14:04energy that we have during the games you know look Brentford we want that zero one
14:08another then beat the Newcastle Brentford beat United Drog and Chelsea so
14:16that looks under my god I spoke with Unai Emery after when when we lost I said
14:21they draw 0-0 with 10 men's there I said I said to the players guys this is a huge
14:26huge result because it's difficult and as much always Man City it's in that
14:32me always you take care of that you know take care that how difficult is
14:37everything how complicated it is to go to FA Cup Carabao Cup in championship in
14:41league one is difficult and that's why won foreign Carabas in a row semi-finals
14:46two or three in a row finals again and because we give and last season didn't
14:52happen that season we didn't have this from from my point of view for the success we
14:58had we handled it quite well last season because apparently we didn't have
15:04another target to fight you know for parents in a row nobody had done it not
15:07even eighties nineties Liverpool's United's never doing we did it and what's
15:12next and after why it was a lot of injures last season in this season we don't
15:17have maybe sorry hopefully we don't have this isn't when you are the day you get
15:22injured when you are focused you want to win and you want to be ready no one
15:28correct on me if you are ready you don't get injured don't tell me why part of
15:33that is why is the same mythology the same training session the same physios some
15:37doctors same physio trainers you and one year you are not injured and next season
15:42you are everyone is injured why because you are not there I wasn't there but it's
15:50good it was experience to learn thank you everyone thank you
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