Guardiola on City form to chase down leaders Arsenal

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Guardiola on City form to chase down leaders Arsenal  28/11/2025  CFGA, Manchester, UK

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00:00Just following on from that, if you are playing to be safe,

00:06are you more likely to make mistakes?

00:08No, first of all, what happens, you are not who you are.

00:13It's simple.

00:17So when the football pitch and games, the good players,

00:24it doesn't matter what happens, they don't think the consequences,

00:27they try and they do it.

00:29Then we didn't do it the last game.

00:32What did you specifically learn about the players on Tuesday night?

00:39No, I said the same.

00:41My opinion on them, my stand on them is top.

00:47It's top.

00:49Nothing changes individual quality as a person,

00:52as a football player they are really, really good players.

00:55I don't change one second.

00:57It's just that I learn that I make mistakes.

01:00I cannot put ten players in a Champions League game altogether.

01:04They don't feel secure.

01:06They don't feel comfortable together.

01:08And you seem to suggest that some of them, if not all of them,

01:13were kind of lacking in confidence.

01:16How do you go about altering that?

01:18No, it's not about the confidence.

01:19They have to have it.

01:21It's a profession.

01:23You have to do it.

01:24I don't ask actions to bring in actions.

01:27I have to be the simple thing and say,

01:29OK, I have the ball, I'm going to attack, to score goals,

01:31to make a movement defensively.

01:33When I go there, I will be aggressive enough, you know,

01:36to win the duels and be present on that.

01:40And none of that will work.

01:43Hi, Pep.

01:44On Tuesday night, when things weren't going well,

01:46there were quite a few occasions

01:47where the players were wanting more noise from the fans.

01:49More, sorry?

01:50More noise from the fans, a better atmosphere maybe.

01:53Do you think the players need to be better at motivating themselves

01:55when things aren't going well?

01:56Absolutely.

01:57I will be fine.

01:58I will not cheer up my team playing in the way we played.

02:03Because obviously, maybe the atmosphere wasn't great,

02:05but you say if players aren't taking risks to do things well,

02:07you know, they're there to, you know,

02:09provide entertainment at times for these fans.

02:11No, but it's not about that because, for example,

02:13Aston Villa, they play players, you know,

02:16like everybody knows can recognise.

02:18It was quite similar.

02:19Except the first 50-20 minutes, Aston Villa was excellent.

02:22The rest, it was quite similar in the last game.

02:25It's not about just for the reason.

02:30I don't blame this one.

02:31I blame myself to don't read that

02:33the issue of being protective with the players that played lately

02:37to get that secure to try the thing.

02:40So, it doesn't matter what happened.

02:42So, just to try.

02:45We didn't try.

02:46It's not to play good or bad.

02:47It's not even try.

02:48That was the problem.

02:49Do you want a bit more noise tomorrow at the stadium then?

02:52If we play good, yeah.

02:55Our fans make the effort to come to see us.

02:59We are incredibly grateful to come.

03:01And I know this stadium because I've been for many, many years.

03:04If you do what you have to do, they are there.

03:07You know?

03:08And this is what you have to try to do.

03:11With all the unconditioned for the referees.

03:15We have to control ourselves playing better and do it better.

03:20Since we cannot control, we cannot control.

03:24I learned from years ago when I was a football player from Barcelona.

03:29So, we have to do it ourselves.

03:32And it's not possible with the other circumstances.

03:34It's against.

03:35That is what it's about.

03:36You have to do better.

03:37Not start to complain or start to do something like that.

03:40You have spoken in the last few seasons about your phrase

03:47to climb the mountain after you've won the title to go again.

03:51Do you think what's happened when Chelsea won the title,

03:55now Liverpool, how difficult that has been?

03:58Does that show how difficult it is and what you guys did mentally to do that?

04:03Absolutely.

04:04That's why we want to still be there.

04:06We proved it in the past many, many times.

04:08You know?

04:09After a win, you go down and we were not.

04:12Always we were there.

04:13And I know what you have to do to be there.

04:15I know it.

04:16I have experience for that.

04:17I know.

04:19And I always defend, you know, that you have to do it together.

04:25And I take a responsibility.

04:28Listen, when I make tens of new players in the past,

04:32I know the consequences are going to be bad.

04:35I know it.

04:36It happened.

04:37You know, for me, it's easy to put the same players,

04:40cover my shoulders and it's going bad.

04:43It's from Erling, from Ruben, from Bernardo.

04:45It's the problems.

04:46Do you think I don't think about when put Rico and Villarreal,

04:49it's going bad?

04:50Everybody is going to say, what are they doing, Pep?

04:52What are they doing?

04:53I know my consequences.

04:55But at the same time, I don't know many times.

04:57And the people say, ah, I think Pep is arrogant.

04:59It's fine.

05:00Managers are the only position.

05:03In my case, when you think a lot, it's a bad thing.

05:07You know?

05:08I need to understand that position.

05:10But I know the consequences.

05:12But always I think that together we have to do it.

05:15It's the team that we have for the quality of the players,

05:17that together we have to do it.

05:19And now we have a game, in three days I have another one,

05:21in four days another one, in three days another one,

05:23another one.

05:24One day another one, I have to move.

05:26Always I've done it.

05:27But it's true.

05:28Thank you so much.

05:30Do you think sometimes you overthink?

05:33I love it.

05:34Do you think think is a problem?

05:36As a human being?

05:37It looks like, right?

05:39But sometimes if you overthink it can be complicated.

05:43I can make a list when I think a lot and it works, right?

05:49And after that I'm a genius.

05:51Yeah?

05:52Sure?

05:53So, I think my discipline I think is the best for the team in the moment,

05:58knowing that it can be good or it can be wrong.

06:00Accept it.

06:01So, I have to do it.

06:03And I suppose with the players that it can happen.

06:05I'm in front of you, all of you.

06:07And I support you.

06:10But just, you have to try it.

06:11Only I ask, you know?

06:13Only I ask is that, is try it.

06:19Hi Pep, it's three games in the next eight days in the Premier League.

06:22All the same competition.

06:24Is this a chance for you to kind of build momentum and confidence

06:28and belief back into the team for the Premier League?

06:31We had it.

06:32For International Bay, we had it.

06:33And I think we make a set in Newcastle apart

06:36that we give away chances for them with intensity,

06:39aggressivity and other circumstances that we cannot control.

06:42Against Newcastle, I think we make a really good game.

06:47The time in ten seasons, as I said before,

06:50the time in ten seasons, we created more in Newcastle

06:53than the previous seasons.

06:55So, it was quite good, the game.

06:58But, yeah, we lost.

06:59And the last one, no.

07:01The last one, it was completely different.

07:02They had to regain our momentum, yeah,

07:05to start to win games and be in there.

07:07Because it's still so long, the season away.

07:09There is so long in the season, but the way Arsenal are playing at the minute,

07:14are they making you feel kind of psychologically that you need to keep up with them?

07:19Yeah, of course we cannot lose games, absolutely.

07:22That is the truth.

07:23They are so strong and they are winning games and winning games

07:28in the way they are so, so solid.

07:30And they are like we had in the past, Liverpool against us

07:34or us against Liverpool, that they are not going to drop much points.

07:38So, that's why we have to be there.

07:39And this is why we have to try to fight.

07:41Last one with Martin, please.

07:43Hi, Pep.

07:46Do you know yet when Mahmoush will go off to the African Cup of Nations?

07:50Have you got a date when he will go?

07:52I don't know.

07:53I think I have to talk with the club, with the player, with the club.

07:56It would be disappointing to lose him.

07:58He has had a very sort of stop-start season, hasn't he?

08:01Very difficult time with injuries and that.

08:03Mahmoush?

08:04No, it started really well after having injured and after we come back

08:07we make more, I would say, more stable the team.

08:15It's a time like, you know, when you ask three games in a row

08:19playing the same team, the same team selection.

08:22But the season is so long and I think Omar Mika,

08:25the last game, what the team required, his quality, that, he did it.

08:30But we didn't find him.

08:32Just because he's Leeds, Pep, where's Calvin Phillips at the moment?

08:37He's going to have some problems, some niggles in his leg

08:42and it's time to recover him.

08:44OK.

08:45Thanks, everyone.

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