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Guardiola on City defensive problems and World Cup favourites
05/12/2025
CFGA, Manchester, UK
05/12/2025
CFGA, Manchester, UK
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00:00And we'll set the bar to go towards the end for 10.30pm this evening.
00:04We'll start with Ian.
00:06Hello Pep.
00:07Now you've had a few days to reflect on what happened the other night
00:11and maybe watch the game back as well.
00:13How do you actually feel about that match?
00:16It's forgotten.
00:17Learn, good learning, hopefully, but it's forgotten.
00:20It's next.
00:21In Premier League, when the modern football, all the clubs,
00:23you have to learn what's happening, good things, bad things,
00:27and think of the next one.
00:29Can you forget that?
00:31You know, right now, yeah.
00:33And do you think your players can?
00:35Because, I don't know, from your perspective, when you look at it,
00:39are you more pleased about the version of your team that went 5-1 in front
00:43or are you more concerned about the team that made it 5-4?
00:47Of course I'm concerned.
00:48The good things, yeah, we do good things.
00:50And we try to understand what happened to concede the goals
00:54and don't be as good as we were in the first half.
00:58So, it's not much.
00:59Opening always count.
01:01I'm highly, highly considerate about Marco and Fulham for many, many years.
01:06Since it was been promoted, when it was in the championship, came here.
01:09I don't know if it was a cup or a Carabao cup.
01:11And he played really, really good.
01:14And that year was promoted for the Premier League.
01:19And I know we scored five goals there.
01:21It's not easy.
01:22The chances are we create even more.
01:24But sometimes, of course, we see what happened, you know,
01:29to lose with a good result that momentum.
01:32And it's part of the growth, part of the mistakes,
01:35part of the process that they have to accept it.
01:38And, yeah, two more and another one.
01:45It's been a crazy season in many ways already.
01:48Does Sunderland embody that more than anyone,
01:51the way that they've come into the league
01:52and the damage that they've done to the top teams already?
01:56Only I can say, from my humble opinion, they deserve who they are.
02:02When you play new promoted, play three games, four games, five games.
02:05Okay, momentum can happen.
02:08I thought 14 fixtures in this Premier League, in these opponents,
02:11like everyone, City the first, suffer every single game, you know,
02:17to take results and be in that position.
02:19They deserve it.
02:20If you tell me what they do, there are four or five or six items,
02:25concepts they do, all of them they do well.
02:28Otherwise, they would not be who they are.
02:30In this league, impossible.
02:32So, a good challenge for us.
02:34Hi, Pep.
02:36Your first ever Premier League game was against Sunderland in 2016.
02:40David Moyes was there.
02:41Yeah, you had a big smile on your face before the game.
02:44I had?
02:45Yeah, yeah.
02:45Sure?
02:46I'm sure, yeah.
02:47I just watched it, yeah.
02:49Did you still have that same level of excitement all these years on?
02:55Excitement years after that?
02:58Sorry.
02:59Sorry, go on.
03:00Tell me, tell me, sorry.
03:00I was focusing 10 years ago.
03:04Yeah, you were very excited before that game.
03:06Is there still that same level of excitement from those years on?
03:09Different one.
03:11It's a different one.
03:12We are not the same like 10 years ago.
03:14So, the first game in the Premier League at home, the expectations that I had or all the people
03:23were around, start-back-runner's staff 10 years later, score is different.
03:27I'm not saying it's better or worse.
03:28It's completely different.
03:30It's normal.
03:31And before that game, you said you were looking forward to seeing the Premier League in real
03:37life, not just on television.
03:39How has that experience been during all those years?
03:43It was fulfilled.
03:44It was, if you tell me, reflect after 10 years, how was my experience or what I live here?
03:49I don't have enough words to express what I live in a mainly good moment, but bad moment
03:57as well, the incredible people I met here.
04:00So, it has been an exceptional journey, I would say.
04:03All I can say.
04:04It has been top.
04:06And just separately, Thomas Tuchel has spoken to the BBC and said during the World Cup, England
04:12substitutes will stay in the dressing rooms because of the high temperatures.
04:17Having experienced that during the Club World Cup, just explain how tough conditions are.
04:21Yeah, 1994 was the United States of America.
04:23We played in Dallas one day and, wow, we were out and maybe it would have been better to
04:32be inside, like Thomas, maybe he will decide.
04:35So, yeah.
04:37In some parts, I don't know, in the States, in Mexico, it happened in summertime, it's hot.
04:41So, a lot of irritation.
04:47A lot of drinks.
04:53Hi, Pep.
04:54Going back to the goals conceded specifically, obviously the four at Fulham and the two against
05:00Leeds as well at the Etihad, you speak there about learning from mistakes or experiences
05:05of moving on.
05:07What has been your message to the group?
05:09What learnings do you take from specifically those two games?
05:12Because Sunderland at the weekend will present a lot of problems as well, won't it?
05:15Yeah, you're right.
05:16And the three goals against Leeds and the five goals against Fulham as well.
05:19Yeah?
05:20You can see the two versions.
05:21Right?
05:22So, always we have done many good things.
05:25So, how many shoots and targets had Leeds?
05:28Three?
05:29It's for two.
05:31I took up, it's not bad.
05:32How many shoots and targets had?
05:33Four, maybe six, five, six.
05:36So, the average for the shoot and weekend seat is high.
05:39Had to improve.
05:40Of course you had to improve.
05:41Of course.
05:41So, all the goals was in the edge.
05:43We didn't have players there to defend in that position.
05:46And, yeah, we will talk today, maybe tomorrow morning.
05:49You know, but different opening, different qualities.
05:52Like, had Fulham, the way they play is a little bit different.
05:56And, yeah, of course, I don't like to concede two goals and four goals and six goals in two games.
06:11But, at the same time, we are the team scoring the most.
06:14And, we have to build from that.
06:15You know, we have to fix these kind of things that we believe we can do better.
06:21Lose what we are.
06:22It's great chances, chances, and goals.
06:23Because we are building a team for that.
06:25But, of course, we concede four goals in games and three goals in games.
06:29And, girls, it will be so difficult.
06:31We have to be more solid.
06:32We are right.
06:33But, it belongs to everyone, not just for the keepers or defenders.
06:37I saw the game.
06:38I had the feeling, the diagnosis, what do you have to do?
06:41And, the players will know it today.
06:43Can I ask about Rayanet Nori?
06:45Obviously, he came in in the summer.
06:47The club spent a fair amount of money on him.
06:49Started just three games in the Premier League.
06:53I know he's had injuries.
06:55But, is he taking a bit longer to settle than you'd hope?
06:59Rayan playing in the World Cup was really good in the season.
07:02Played the first game against Wolves.
07:03Played the second against the Spurs.
07:05And, after we're injured.
07:05And, after came Rico.
07:08And, Nico O'Reilly have performed really well.
07:10It's the only reason.
07:11No more than that.
07:13We are really pleased against Rayanet Nori.
07:15And, I know he's going to help us.
07:16He came not just for a certain period, for a long time.
07:19He knows the Premier League.
07:21He can play outside, inside.
07:23He can play in different positions.
07:24But, now, Nico's playing really good.
07:28You know?
07:28And, that is the only reason why.
07:30It's difficult for the players.
07:31Even for you, in all respect.
07:34It doesn't matter.
07:35I could not care less.
07:36But, for my players, of course, it's difficult to understand.
07:39But, it's the only reason why.
07:41The only reason why.
07:42On that basis, then, Nico started six of the last seven.
07:45He came on at half-time for Rayanet in the other game.
07:48Obviously, it's a lot of football.
07:50A lot of workload.
07:50Do you get in the sense that, at some point, he will need a rest over the next game.
07:54Two games.
07:54Three games.
07:55Yeah.
07:57Yeah, maybe.
07:58That's why I rotate maybe too much.
08:00Obviously, too much against Leverkusen.
08:02But, the only reason why, it was that.
08:04You know?
08:04Too fresh legs.
08:05And, look what happened in the second half.
08:08Against Fulham, our legs could not run more.
08:11So, there's a lot, a lot of games.
08:13With energy.
08:14That there was a decision why in Leverkusen.
08:16And, happen that.
08:17Because, we dropped.
08:18Mainly because of lack of energy.
08:19In our intensity that we have in the first half.
08:22Like, we're getting a lot of balls.
08:23Create a lot of chances.
08:25We're playing a really, really good game.
08:26In a tough, tough place.
08:28And, yeah.
08:30So, yeah.
08:31Maybe it's going.
08:31I don't know when.
08:32But, yeah.
08:33But, at the same time, it's young.
08:34No.
08:35It's not.
08:36I don't know.
08:37Bernardo, maybe.
08:38Or, not players like they had already.
08:40Grandfathers.
08:40But, he's so young.
08:43He's a local teenager.
08:45And, recover well.
08:46And, yeah.
08:47We see.
08:47We see.
08:48Day by day.
08:50Hi, Pep.
08:50Just to check.
08:51Is Rodri available this weekend?
08:53Uh, no.
08:56It's getting better.
08:58If you are happy for my answer, it's getting, getting better.
09:01So, I don't know how long.
09:04But, it's in the edge that, in few, in few years, we'll be ready.
09:11Is it easy to rule out for Real Madrid, as well?
09:13Or, is there a chance?
09:14Ask me in Madrid.
09:17Fred.
09:18Pep.
09:19Again, for, about the previous two games.
09:21Like, for a manager that is labeled or seen as someone that loves the control, it seems
09:27that you could have fun, as well, after, at least, the final whistle.
09:32After the final whistle?
09:34Yeah.
09:34If I was relieved.
09:36Or, you can look the entertainment side of it.
09:38Oh, yeah.
09:39Absolutely.
09:41Have to be one of the games of the year, right?
09:44Of the season.
09:45I don't know.
09:46In these awards, right?
09:47In the month, they say the game of the week.
09:49Yeah.
09:50We are candidates.
09:52Fulham and I would say we are candidates to win that game.
09:54That's for sure.
09:56Definitely.
09:57And, you, you, you are running a lot, like, in terms of...
10:00If I would be at home, at home, and so far, watching that game, I said, I don't change
10:05the channel.
10:06So, I'm pretty sure the broadcasters are happy with us.
10:10They have a consideration to Marcos and myself.
10:12Give me a bottle of wine for all of us.
10:15No, I'm not joking.
10:17I'm joking.
10:18Broadcasters must be happy.
10:19Might be.
10:21You were?
10:22I was, absolutely.
10:24I was...
10:24I'll play for you.
10:25I was having a bottle of wine.
10:27Can I ask about the...
10:29You've been running a lot, like, in terms of, like, distance, COVID.
10:33I think it's above the average.
10:34Do you know why?
10:36Is that intended?
10:36That's not good.
10:38That's not good.
10:40When you play better, you run less.
10:42You have to run a lot, but they have a good spirit.
10:44That is a good point.
10:46That is a good point.
10:47Because what happened last season, last season, we could run, but we didn't run.
10:50Your level was not good.
10:52It was all the time.
10:53So, I'm not naive to understand that it has to, you know, happen in two games.
11:00You have to try to, you know, to do it better.
11:04So, but at the same time, I'm an incredible optimistic person, a positive person, and I
11:09want to see the good things that we have done against Leeds.
11:13It will happen afterwards.
11:15One for me.
11:15The best manager in the world is Enzo Mareska.
11:18I know him quite well, but the job he's done in Chelsea is not credit enough.
11:24Working the World Cup conference, qualification of the Champions League, and that league is
11:29so tough.
11:30Young team.
11:31How developed of the players.
11:32So, it's exceptional.
11:34And go well and roti.
11:35It will happen.
11:36So, it's really, really, really, really difficult.
11:40You are able to win games, games, games, and after, you don't know why, you are lose, lose,
11:46lose games.
11:46Only happen in this league, in this country.
11:49Can happen that.
11:49That's why it's, I was like, incredible credit.
11:53When we won 4-5 in Fulham, there's a moment, in the right moment, I said, oh my God.
12:01But, after that, I reflect a little bit, I said, okay, take the positive things.
12:06Not just the three points.
12:07Of course, they help us, you know, the many things that we have done good.
12:10And the last one on me.
12:12We have the World Cup draw today.
12:14And can I borrow you as a pundit for a moment?
12:16Who are the main candidates in your point of view?
12:19Same ones.
12:21Everybody knows.
12:22We will be agree about the candidates.
12:24Maybe we'll be surprised, but we will be agree if we name the three or four or five candidates.
12:28Everybody knows it.
12:30I would like England be there.
12:31I don't want to be, I don't want to be, pretend to be too nice, but like I've been here for many years
12:41and be part of that country, I would love Thomas and the people who can make, you know, the last step and do it.
12:48Certainly in Bogo there for 10.30 p.m. this evening.
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