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Embargoed pre match press conference with Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola ahead of Manchester City v Sunderland in the Premier League at the City Football Academy.
Guardiola reflects on City sitting second in the Premier League, in the Carabao Cup quarter finals and well placed in the Champions League, insisting he looks first at how the team is developing rather than at outside noise when results dip. He explains why recent defensive problems are not only about the back line, highlighting the win over Fulham and stressing that aggression high up the pitch and intensity over 95 minutes must return.
Pep gives a detailed update on Rodri’s muscular injury, calling him “another level” and describing how even his presence on the pitch makes the other ten players feel safer, but insists City must be cautious with his comeback to avoid another setback. He speaks about expectations around City’s spending and success, saying the club has built “something unique” over nine years and that it is normal to lose sometimes because rivals are strong.
Guardiola also discusses England’s chances at the World Cup, saying they are “really, really, really good” in every department and that the moment they truly believe it they can win it, comparing their recent near misses to Spain before they finally broke through to win a major tournament. He highlights how short tournaments punish even “half a bad afternoon” and says the key for a national team is creating something unique when players from different clubs come together.
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#mancity #mcfc #pepguardiola | Pep Guardiola Manchester City Man City press conference today
Guardiola reflects on City sitting second in the Premier League, in the Carabao Cup quarter finals and well placed in the Champions League, insisting he looks first at how the team is developing rather than at outside noise when results dip. He explains why recent defensive problems are not only about the back line, highlighting the win over Fulham and stressing that aggression high up the pitch and intensity over 95 minutes must return.
Pep gives a detailed update on Rodri’s muscular injury, calling him “another level” and describing how even his presence on the pitch makes the other ten players feel safer, but insists City must be cautious with his comeback to avoid another setback. He speaks about expectations around City’s spending and success, saying the club has built “something unique” over nine years and that it is normal to lose sometimes because rivals are strong.
Guardiola also discusses England’s chances at the World Cup, saying they are “really, really, really good” in every department and that the moment they truly believe it they can win it, comparing their recent near misses to Spain before they finally broke through to win a major tournament. He highlights how short tournaments punish even “half a bad afternoon” and says the key for a national team is creating something unique when players from different clubs come together.
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#mancity #mcfc #pepguardiola | Pep Guardiola Manchester City Man City press conference today
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00:00Maybe because you've been so successful during your time here that when things aren't
00:05going perfectly there are a lot of questions, but you're second in the Premier League, you're
00:09in the quarterfinals of the Carabao Cup, well placed in the Champions League, I think you're
00:11second or top scorers in the Premier League, that when you take a step back and look at
00:15the bigger picture that you perhaps would have taken this position now if you were offered
00:18it in the summer?
00:21Yes, so I always try to see how is the team developing and that is my feeling, I want
00:33to feel that we are getting better.
00:36Of course being close in the top of the league, in the Champions League, if we were to take
00:40a result of Leverkusen we'd be in the perfect position now it's a little bit more difficult,
00:44but myself in the beginning I'm happy, I'm positive, I think the team will do well and
00:51and about what the people say, there's no time to training and everything is judged
00:59for immediately, they don't have time, you know, to reflect a little bit in the external
01:03situation, lose the games, it looks like a disaster, it's a chaos and going well, okay
01:08now it's candidates to win everything and, you know, I think we have to be the managers
01:13today in all sports and basketball and here and football and all the times, basketball
01:17I'm saying in Europe and other competitions, it has to be more.
01:20It has to be more, everything is so quick, everything, it looks like when you draw points
01:26a result, everything is calm, you know, so, but it's not going to change, we have to, it's
01:35our duty to try to do it.
01:36And Pep, on Rodri, has he had a setback at all and is it the knee that you're kind of holding
01:44them back over or is it other issues?
01:46It was a muscular injury against Renfrew in a high tendon, muscular, hamstring area and
01:52it's a bit more careful and that will happen previous ones when we setbacks, we're going
01:58to take more cautious and have no more prevention but make a step more safe to don't do it again.
02:04So it's simple but it's not a step back.
02:06So the process, the recovery is doing well and I start to make a training sessions on
02:11the pitch already.
02:12So hopefully in a few weeks, he can start to, to be aware when my friend is desperate to
02:21know when, so I will, I will tell you.
02:24And just on the, defensively, in four of the six years you've won the title, you've
02:31had the best defence in the league, is the message in four of the six seasons you've
02:36won the Premier League, you've had the best defence, is the kind of message that you have
02:40to shore up the back line to properly challenge Arsenal to see?
02:45It's not about back line, it's not just a back line, back line has been good, it's not
02:51just about that.
02:52But of course, there are individual mistakes at back four, yeah, sure, but it's not just
02:57about that.
02:58There is no way we suffered against, against, against Fulham was completely the opposite.
03:08Our aggression in a high height pitch, we forgot to do it, we don't do it anymore and that's
03:13why my theory, like when the ball is close to your box, we are more dangerous, with the
03:19play, we are safer.
03:20And you have to insist, maybe for the new players, maybe for the rhythm, maybe because
03:26we cannot sustain 95 minutes, maybe, I don't know, but that's what you have to work.
03:32But just on Rodri again, because you're being more cautious with the injury, are you waiting
03:39until maybe he's fit to start a game or have two games in a week?
03:43Do you know what that means, play without the best player in the world two seasons ago,
03:49our main player when the Wunder Tribal plays 70 games during one year and a half without him?
03:57Do you know what we miss?
03:59I want him back now, here, but he's suffering and struggling because when I come back and
04:08he's leaving, but I want to protect him.
04:11I want to be sure right now that this can be injured, yes, but minimize the risk.
04:17This is what we want.
04:18He wants, I want, and all medical staff, he's just wanting.
04:23So tell me, tell me one team what the best player one year and a half is going there.
04:27Tell me, tell me.
04:28It's softer.
04:29So Rodri is another level of the players, another level.
04:34Rodri came the last 20 minutes against Fulham, put it in the middle.
04:38There, there, in the middle.
04:40And do you know what's the effect?
04:42It's make just his presence.
04:44If he doesn't touch the ball, the next 10 players, safe.
04:49Better.
04:50They play better.
04:51Even he doesn't touch the ball, just for the fact he's there.
04:54And there's one year and a half without having, for that reason.
04:57And we try to, you know, because he wants him, he wants him, and that's why it happened.
05:02There are players that are replaceable.
05:04Not just how good they play, how great to the other one.
05:07You know, because the other one said, oh, I have Rodri there.
05:10Give you the ball, he's going to lose.
05:12He knows when the space is free to break the shoot-off plays and the other one.
05:16It's unique.
05:18But I don't want to come back, you know, because I want it desperately right now in Madrid
05:23or next one, next one, and after six more weeks out.
05:27No sense.
05:29So, I want to be sure that, okay, but now I'll come back, I have to make up a season.
05:34I have to, you know, cannot play 90 minutes, 90 minutes, 90 minutes.
05:38You know, I'll come back again.
05:39You have an injured ACL, your body's completely different.
05:42You prove it again.
05:43That is the only reason why.
05:45But I want him.
05:46Absolutely.
05:47That was the question, really.
05:49He started three games in a week in September.
05:51He started two games in five days.
05:53Is that something that you're looking to do?
05:56You have to think about it.
05:57But it's not a, you know, it's not a, I don't know what to say.
06:00One person said, that guy has to play 32 minutes and 46 seconds that game.
06:06Not 47 seconds, 46.
06:08I would love to know it, but I don't know.
06:11And sometimes you play, oh, 3-0, out.
06:14But 1-0, 2-1, Rodri is so good there.
06:17I mean, the decision you have to take always is from many things that, honestly, you don't know.
06:24You don't know.
06:27You don't complain today, eh?
06:28It's longer than press conference, eh?
06:30I hear some rumors you were disappointed, the last one.
06:34And they said, it's not my fault.
06:37They didn't ask me questions.
06:38No?
06:39No.
06:40You weren't at a very good note before.
06:41It just seems very fast.
06:42Oh, I don't have this season a good note.
06:45I'm more or less than 10 years ago in Sunderland, right?
06:48You were not there.
06:49Where you are?
06:50I don't know.
06:51I don't know.
06:52I don't know.
06:53I don't know.
06:54I don't know.
06:55I don't know.
06:56I don't know.
06:57I don't know.
06:58I see you in China.
07:00Of course you're happy to see me.
07:03Can I ask, those 18 months out, how is, how is Rodri mentally?
07:08It must be a lot to, it must be a lot to take on.
07:12Ah, of course.
07:13What would you do?
07:14You're a football player.
07:15You are a journalist.
07:16During 18 months, you cannot do your job.
07:18Tell me.
07:19How do you feel?
07:20You want to write?
07:21You want to write?
07:22You want to inspiration, your lecturers, how good you are?
07:24And you cannot do it.
07:25How do you feel it?
07:26You feel it bad.
07:27So it has to be very mentally strong.
07:30Of course.
07:31And everyone, yeah, of course it's strong.
07:32It has to be strong.
07:33And in some moments it's sad, in some moments.
07:35I would not be happy if he's not sad.
07:36I would not be happy if he's not concerned about that.
07:39When I had to be clean, I said, okay, it's the last step.
07:42The birds took him by.
07:44Don't make one step, you know, further to make 1,000 steps backwards.
07:51So that's the way to try to do it.
07:54And because the season still is 1,000 million in front of us.
07:59You know?
08:00Ahead of us, we have many nice things to live.
08:03It has to be there.
08:04It will be there.
08:05He has a World Cup there.
08:06And next season, next season, next season.
08:08As much we recover there, we will not be for now.
08:10We will be for the end of the season, next season.
08:12And that is the main thing.
08:15Can I ask, with the running, is it too simple to say,
08:20if you pass the ball better, you'll run less?
08:24Not just the pass.
08:25If you dribble better, you'll run less.
08:28And, you know, yeah, many, many aspects, right?
08:30The spirit has to be there.
08:32And always have been there, I would say.
08:34Always have been there.
08:35Otherwise, 18 titles in nine years will not be possible.
08:38We run a lot.
08:39The spirit has been extraordinary.
08:41But we have built a team in the place that we have signed
08:45for a specific way to play.
08:46And when we do it and we start to do some things,
08:49we are more vulnerable.
08:51That doesn't mean to not win or lose.
08:53We are vulnerable.
08:54We have to try to do it.
08:56And I know that I completely agree with him.
08:58So, never is enough for us.
09:00You know?
09:01You know?
09:02Always is just money.
09:03He commend perfectly.
09:04I know how much you spend the money.
09:06You know?
09:07All the time, I know that.
09:08You know?
09:09Never is enough for us.
09:10And always is for granted.
09:11But that is the reality.
09:12We have to accept it and live with that.
09:14Because we have built something unique in this club.
09:17In terms of success.
09:18In terms of many, many good things.
09:19And being second.
09:20And lose.
09:21And always I learned for the years that you can lose.
09:24I'm sorry.
09:25The opponents are good.
09:26And I saw every single day.
09:27Every single weekend.
09:28Every single game.
09:29I know perfectly how the opponents they are.
09:32And we can lose.
09:33And you cannot win all the time.
09:34The Premier League.
09:35You cannot do that.
09:36And the club has to understand that.
09:37I understand the first.
09:38So I don't feel.
09:39I feel a little bit.
09:41Hmm?
09:42When in Newcastle.
09:43Something I cannot control.
09:45They don't allow us to take a result.
09:47That makes me feel.
09:48Hmm?
09:49But when the opening is better.
09:50Shake the hands.
09:51Improve.
09:52You know?
09:53Improve.
09:54It's only I think.
09:55I'm not thinking I'm perfect or good.
09:58Or the players are good.
09:59I want to win all the time.
10:00And do incredible, incredible things.
10:02It's 1-5, 4-5.
10:03Something will happen.
10:04What happened?
10:05Ready.
10:06Forward.
10:07Not happen again.
10:08This is the only main target.
10:105.
10:11Score 7.
10:12Why there is no 1-5?
10:13Why?
10:14Why?
10:15Yeah?
10:16We have to do it longer.
10:17Longer.
10:18And we start to do it.
10:19We can see 4.
10:20We can see 5.
10:21We can see 6.
10:22And sometimes we are perfect.
10:24Perfect.
10:25Leeds was 3-0 halftime.
10:264-0.
10:27One shoot and target.
10:28Not even once.
10:29That is the team we have been for many years.
10:31But after score 2 times in the first action.
10:34Mistaken.
10:35You doing that?
10:36Okay.
10:37Avoid it.
10:38Always I want the team getting better and grow and grow and grow and better.
10:41That is life.
10:42Be better.
10:43In every aspect of our life be better.
10:45Step by step.
10:46This is what you have to do.
10:47You have to do.
10:48My city lose.
10:49Yeah.
10:50And what happened?
10:51Yeah.
10:52This club was in Monroe for many times.
10:53In that position they didn't have a chance to win the Premier League.
10:56No.
10:57Now we have for many years we are there.
10:58Okay.
10:59Continue as long as possible.
11:00We will see at the end.
11:01If Arsenal win, I will be the first to call Mikael and congratulate him.
11:04Like he has done in the past.
11:06The first.
11:07And like.
11:08And like.
11:09Congratulate here and Adam's lot last season.
11:11So.
11:12And do it.
11:131-0-1 is improve as a team.
11:15And accepting.
11:16But if you understand that you lose a game and everything is a disaster.
11:20Okay.
11:21If you believe it's that the sport is in that level, it's fine.
11:25That's one with Paul, please.
11:28Hi, but just following on from what you're saying to Fred about the World Cup.
11:36How serious do you think England's chances are of winning it?
11:39England.
11:40A lot.
11:41Yeah.
11:42If you see the quality of the manager, a lot.
11:45If you see the quality of the players they have.
11:47The players that maybe will not go, be selected.
11:50The moment they believe it, they can do it.
11:55I think too much will convince them that they can do it.
11:59Yes.
12:00In all departments, they are really good.
12:02Really, really, really good.
12:03With Gareth making finals.
12:05Semi-finals, finals, semi-finals, finals.
12:08They are close.
12:09Remember, it was like Spain.
12:10It was always there.
12:11It was there.
12:12And the moment they break it and won it, they were able to do it.
12:16So.
12:17Yeah, but there seems to be that last step, like you say.
12:19What is, what does it take to kind of bridge that little gap?
12:22I don't know.
12:23I've been manager for a national team and these tournaments are so special.
12:26It's a short competition.
12:28The tournaments make tricky.
12:31Premier League in long competitions you have making mistakes in these competitions.
12:36Don't wait.
12:37One half bad afternoon, you are home.
12:42British Airlines come back.
12:44So that is, I think that is the reality.
12:49So.
12:50But.
12:51I have no experience because I didn't leave as a manager, never there.
12:54And basically like Champions League, quarter-finals, semi-finals.
12:56These kind of tournaments.
12:57You have to be so perfect in many aspects.
13:00And for me, for me, the most of it, maybe I'm wrong, is create.
13:03And that mother half you are there, essentially a real, real, real team.
13:08Because everyone is in Aston Villa, Chelsea, Arsenal, City, United, Liverpool.
13:13And all together one mother half.
13:15You are able to create something unique.
13:17You are living something special.
13:20And that they create them.
13:21They create insight.
13:23And I think that more than the tactics, I think so, and more these kind of things.
13:27I think in this tournament it's really important.
13:31Thank you, guys.
13:32All right.
13:33Let's go.
13:34Thank you, guys.
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