Hear from the managers ahead of Week 8 of the 23-24 Premier League season Pep Guardiola and Mikel Arteta ahead of big game of the weekend as Manchester City take on Arsenal
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00:00 They are a really good team.
00:07 They fought to be champions last season for nothing.
00:11 They could not do it.
00:12 And this season, still, they are there again and again.
00:15 Arsenal is back where he was when a young boy or started being managed in Barcelona.
00:22 I think to analyze who are the title contenders, the first idea is the first 10 games.
00:27 Now we didn't play not even 10.
00:31 We have to wait, but the big clubs will always be contenders.
00:33 And Arsenal is, of course.
00:35 In this league, you have to be at your best every single match.
00:38 We have managed to win a lot of games.
00:42 Something that we have been better is when you cannot win, you don't lose it, except
00:47 of a midweek in the Champions League.
00:51 And that's why it requires to be every single three days, be at your best.
00:56 We expect a really tough game against one of the best sides in the league,
01:00 best coached team in the league.
01:04 But they made really big steps, super consistent, different formations,
01:08 different players, line-ups, wow.
01:11 And you always see Brighton football, and I couldn't respect that more.
01:15 But I'm really looking forward to the game, because we have to put a few things right,
01:19 because you can look silly once, but you should not look twice,
01:24 and the second time is silly.
01:26 It can happen, because they are really good, but we have to do better,
01:29 and we will give it a proper try to do better.
01:32 If we win, we go top of the table for 24 hours, but who cares?
01:35 We've got to win, it's a tough game.
01:38 Tomorrow our focus has got to be on putting on a performance and playing at our best,
01:42 because if we don't, it won't matter where we're sitting on the competition ladder,
01:47 it'll be us focusing on a poor performance.
01:50 It's the fact, so we drop the levels and we fight against,
01:55 so we have to get back to those levels.
01:58 And there are reasons for it, but still, it's not acceptable.
02:06 And we have to fight against it, and every team we put out,
02:11 they have to be on one page.
02:13 Every single game is important for us, for us it's two different things,
02:17 one is to get the result that I think we need,
02:20 another is to settle all our principles and help the players to arrive at their best,
02:26 and to get the best form.
02:30 A team that runs a lot and of course tries to play,
02:37 and is doing well, and of course it's going to be tough,
02:40 but we go there to try to get the three points.
02:43 How unlucky they have been, really.
02:45 I get it, it's always the case with big clubs,
02:51 you have the pressure of having to have results all the time,
02:53 but when I look at the game and what they're doing,
02:56 I see a very, very good side, with very good players.
03:02 It'll happen at some point, no doubt, hopefully it's just not a turf war.
03:07 You want the pressure to be a different one, you want it at the top,
03:09 you want it when you're winning, you want the pressure of constantly performing and winning games.
03:14 Sometimes it's the reverse pressure, when it's hard yards,
03:17 and these are hard yards, when you're looking for them results,
03:19 you're looking to define the thing that is the last thing to click to make it work when you do win games.
03:25 But virtually ever since I've been here, it's been talked about, every game's a muscle.
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