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Post-match press conference with Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola after their 5-4 win over Fulham at Craven Cottage in the Premier League.

Erling Haaland brought up his 100th Premier League goal in just 111 games, the fastest century in the competition’s history, opening the scoring before Tijjani Reijnders and a Phil Foden brace put City in control, with a deflected Sander Berge own goal adding a fifth early in the second half. Emile Smith Rowe pulled one back before half time, Alex Iwobi struck after the break and substitute Samuel Chukwueze scored twice to drag Fulham from 5-1 down to 5-4 in a frantic finale.

Guardiola admits the closing stages were “just a question of survival” as City struggled to defend the edge of the box and control the chaos, saying they “left it to luck” at times. He reflects on Haaland’s record numbers and calls him “the most important player we have” alongside Rodri, praises the impact of new signings like Reijnders and Ryan Cherki, and insists the Premier League title race is “so long” as City chase Arsenal. Pep also talks about watching “more the watch than the game” in a wild nine goal contest and hails the atmosphere at Fulham’s “magnificent” traditional stadium.

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00:00good evening everyone hope you're well we'll take a share of hands for questions please did you stop
00:17did you enjoy guys yeah nice huh did you me did you enjoy my god i lose my hair
00:27stop man i thought i thought the players they were happy to work with me but today i prove it's not
00:36what it would say to what it what it's a primary league so another league you can control that
00:43it's a primary league so start so i know you're going to ask what happened what happened what
00:46happened and i don't have an answer it's probably right it's the motion is that football is the
00:50motion why you do this why you do that so all the goals was bad defending the edge we go
00:57so deep to defend this kind of crosses you have to occupy the spaces a bit better
01:01but i'm sorry to tell you we make an incredible good things today incredible because i know how
01:06difficult is that team we prove it and score the goals that we score and the quality we have done
01:11and the way we defend and the other ones and but after that early half to make the 6-3 make a
01:20two post goal and two post then have a 6-3 and immediately later if i fall and
01:25one that's happened is just question of survive don't tell me how the players don't know neither
01:31and really little luck and yeah at the end we take uh we take it
01:36if i think it's one of the great better strikers in the premier league do you think he will go down as
01:53the greatest i don't know you you are british right and and you have been the best strikers
02:01here you know in this this country so erling is one of them but for sure it's not the best
02:06so listen the people are front of strikers question of numbers and his numbers are
02:12no discussion anything so happy for him happy for the team deliver him this this day you know and
02:20yeah continue so improve that is uh you know tijani is the first season nico riley is the first season
02:26playing that position mateo is the first season playing that position nico ron nico gonzalez is the
02:31first year that play a lot kovacic and rodri the ballon door our movie alongside i would say
02:38erling halen is the most important player we have one year and a half we don't have it
02:43uh uh we don't have replacement for nico in that position so ryan jerky is new today ryan jerky
02:51the last minute ryan jerky and bernardo nico riley was the key to to keep less chance to concede the
02:58goal because otherwise keeping the ball and both that they make a step up in the last minute especially
03:03ryan jerky that was exceptional so yeah what can i say so improve and the good things you have many
03:12good things and the bad things will improve how much better can harlan get to take how high is his
03:19bar i don't know when i arrive you tell me 111 games he was scored 100 goals i would say are you
03:26sure so in this league and he did it so that the millstone the numbers are insane insane so
03:34the jazz could score three goals today have two one again one the first one was the incredible
03:39finishing in the post and that was one incredible cross from savio and if you know pause and pause
03:44and after that happens so but i think for the team like we change seven eight nine players in the one
03:51transfer window to transfer window it's a question of growing and that will be a good lesson for the
03:56future i've got uh post uh input is scored another two goals you pick his back to the to his best level
04:04i told you last week is this season from the beginning is back not now for scottables yeah
04:10yeah of course feel is extraordinary but not just with the goals you know right to the box you know
04:15even in far positions the pace that they have and especially the the passes and jeremy again
04:21have been extraordinary again so yeah really good
04:25does it kind of show the problem you got when nico gonzalez that he needs to play and when he comes
04:33off the north who can yeah they have that problem rather three holding midfielders two inches for a
04:39long time a long time brother will be back soon but kova will be late they don't have anyone today
04:46will prove it i have to think about it maybe nico riley can play there ryan nudie or nathan can play in
04:51left back and yes we don't have tijani approve it but it's more a player more an attacking position
04:57the goal his position is a goal he scored you know in the pockets there and movement movement is
05:01unstoppable it's really good and uh yeah you have to do it you have to find something find something
05:09just when full were really on top of you in that second night what made you think of uh ryan
05:14chile peter come on listen in in that only i believe in this kind of situation where it's
05:20uncontrollable is the only solution i have is i put bring players in the box in the pitch that
05:26they want the ball and they keep it and even surrounded for one or two opponents had the quality to
05:32to have it i remember when the academy barcelona have tiago alcantara played by munich they have
05:37that quality give me the ball no scary and they keep it and that helps us to feel a long position
05:42then possession at that moment for the environment for that we go we're thinking oh five two the game
05:47was over five food now five three oh what happened in two corners deflections we defend bad positions
05:54and um and yeah so so yeah we improve we improve because i think the first goal the second one the
06:03third i don't know the four the third or four all four goals were in the edge and nobody was there
06:09and it's because we want to defend more we are anxious to go so deep to penalty spot that's just
06:13for ruben for just for nico the other one had to be occupied that spaces because the players are there
06:20so yeah we'll talk we'll see it and hopefully next future we can defend better that positions
06:26maybe in past seasons or it was five two five three your team would have completed 30 40 passes and
06:32taking the air out of the game that way do you think the team as constructed now can still do that
06:37yeah you can do it but the people want it and i can do it but the problem today not the problem
06:44today it happened as well but even it happened the people forget it but in the years for 100 points
06:49or four parents are always not that game like today but i have a moment that it was a 3-1 or 3-0 or 3-2
06:56in in nothing it's primary so that's why it's so exciting so unpredictable you know you you never
07:03can figure out and but it happened full and happen a team's better in the table and and lower so the
07:10moment you have you have i had a feeling is a question a process to for many new players to
07:15understand real read how you have to play that moment for example against lydries quarter three two
07:2010 minutes extra time at the end was 11 today was nine and they cross four corners three throwings
07:29and the chances so we didn't control the game after three two and i had to do it better
07:35uh Oscar what was dropped for the second game in the road can you explain well my decision
07:42when can i accept the expectations in back
07:44do you know if you tell me which one i have to leave him out and i will tell him that's why you
07:52will not tell me and i told you this i had to leave once and it was us jack you you're a
08:00so i'm sorry jack basically keep that mentioned before that you sort of made seven or eight new
08:05signs in us two traslo windows and he's going for a bit a tradition about i think we're going to see more
08:12games of all night's light and it's wow i don't know i hope so no no no
08:19you know what i mean maybe but this kind of thing is learned for the for the for the other one for
08:25the future do you know do it do it because when when when now you're talking about that and understand
08:33the chances but that when ryan came in it was the two omens with the moments in behind there was one
08:37one against one against the keeper we have a chances for the pass from josco and nothing from
08:42nothing we had the chances so so and at the end you have to yeah you have to handle it better but i
08:49promise you i don't believe much in the skin situation about the experienced players you know
08:56they're not with experienced players that doesn't happen forget about it it's happened when it's happened
09:00it's happened i took a control a little bit more a little bit better yeah but it's happened but that
09:06is you know sometimes it's it's uh it's it's football you've had a a night that could have gone
09:14either way but you've ended up two points behind arsenal after if they got a game in hand at 14 14
09:21matches do you sense this is where the title race will really start to take shape or would they have
09:27they have to play tomorrow as a nice so strong so solid so i know what to do i know we draw points
09:34will be so difficult we have to put in our mindset that it will one game will be difficult but in the
09:41same time the premier league is so long and i promise you that i am the oldest manager in the right time
09:47here in all the premier league and have experience enough to make a long long runs to try to fight to
09:54win the premier league so this is so long admitting that the opponents even chelsea impressed me every
10:01day more and more with enzo and uh so but this is long it's long premier league is so long many
10:08things it happened so we won six premier leagues four or five we won it in december january february
10:14we were behind four or five points and after we won it so it's consistent to be there to improve
10:20the team who wins the premier is the team who grows during the month and this is one uh we try to do
10:28no injures as less as possible and and go in there it's so long but at the same time if we push
10:37we'll be better but we have to push ourselves we have to you know control better situations emotions and
10:42this kind of stuff so uh and we see what happen you know now luksanderland now i saw the game against
10:51against fulham and oh my god now i understand when i saw the game i understand why sandra is in the
10:57position that they are so no doubt so they are so incredible they do they are top but being in the
11:06problems that we had and many many good things yeah we are we are in better position than last
11:12season we are a little bit closer than the opponent and it just is continuing continuing and continue
11:17last one of our place you're you're a manager but you're also a football fan was there any part
11:23of you that could enjoy that game and if so how much impossible if i won yeah for four i just
11:31watching more on the the watch than the than the game of course have been have been nice so now have
11:39been tough to be honest who have been in the toughery at the end we cannot reach the result but with the
11:45time i will remember that day i was there not living there so the game come on at the end marco is why
11:52it's good because they when they are able they play and they go and when both teams they want to try
11:57and top quality players and go forward the football is is incredible spectacle indeed you put this
12:03environment and this magnificent stadium tradition stadium and the vibe only happened here only happen
12:10here it happened you know in many stadiums in this in this country uh but of course so when everybody
12:18know you are not city fan none of you i know that with 5-1 do you expect the game you we saw it no right
12:275-1 everyone is over start to write articles no tomorrow manchester city manchester is back
12:34you know finally this kind of stuff yeah and after to the trash
12:42you're gonna start again ale let's go
12:47you know how to offer thank you
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