Guardiola believes City will win fourth title in row ahead of Villa trip
Guardiola believes City will win fourth title in row ahead of Villa trip
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00:00 has done there? Always difficult but they run the form that they had this season
00:10 not just at home especially at home because we won everything but away as well so
00:15 tough tough game so we knew it before we know now. And is Unai in that category
00:23 Unai Emery in that category of top top coaches and is he among the world's best
00:27 with what he does with his teams? Well the fact in his teams and all the teams
00:33 have been managed he managed so the fact is there so his print the stamp is
00:40 already there so take the teams you know with the teams are when when he leave
00:48 the teams are better you know the department and the results and the
00:51 players and control last place in the high pressing and deep and special
00:56 business transitions is an exceptional have a lot of admiration. The last few games
01:03 which is very unlike your team you've been conceding a number of goals how do
01:08 you remedy that and will John Stone's return potentially help? Except the
01:19 Chelsea game that we concede more the red last of the game the rest of the
01:23 games is quite quite similar I would say even lower than the last season that you
01:27 want to travel the chances we concede but the reality yeah we concede a lot of
01:32 goals and yeah we have to get better of course you can see the three four goals
01:40 two goals every game is difficult to sustain it for a long time so you have
01:44 to improve but in the same time it's not we don't have much much chances concede
01:49 and and hopefully we can we can continue with that that is a good sign I would say.
01:55 Hi Pep, on the news yesterday about the FA charge can you say how the club
02:02 intend to respond to that? No I don't know any info about that the club didn't
02:08 tell me anything. Okay and we know Erling won't be facing an individual charge but
02:13 are you comfortable with with players going on social media and commenting on
02:18 the performance of the referee like he did and in the way that he did too?
02:22 We behave incredible these years especially this season especially the first how we
02:27 behave in our not good results on a decision that sometimes is in favor
02:34 sometimes is against so we behave even after the game the comments for my
02:38 players about accepting that we can do better me first so is what I want to see
02:46 of my club of my team so after that we'll accept all the decisions for the
02:51 Premier League or whatever. Obviously Rodri is suspended for this game as well and the
02:59 stats show that when he plays for you your chances of winning it are much
03:02 higher how do you go about coping without him? Well normally it's higher because we
03:06 want to travel he plays a lot of games so that is the reason why so we don't
03:13 deny how important it is but he's not there we just suspend it like Jack so we
03:20 we will find the best solution to compete against Aston Villa. Calvin Phillips
03:26 would this be an opportunity for him potentially? Yes it is. He will start?
03:32 I said it's a chance you ask me. It starts till after we play the day before so
03:38 we have to see the train in the afternoon and see how the players are and feel and
03:44 the decision will be made tomorrow. How is Calvin doing in training perhaps
03:49 compared to earlier on this season? Exceptional. I don't have any bad comments
03:55 I said many times. The players obviously felt there was a clear injustice against
04:04 Tottenham with the way the game ended in particular. Does it somehow motivate the
04:09 group a bit like a wounded animal? I mean what's been the mood and the
04:12 reaction amongst the players you've seen? No no I never use this kind of situations
04:16 to... today motivation is to try to do it better not for that situation. I said many
04:26 times sometimes it helps decisions sometimes it's there but I learned from
04:31 where I come from that if you want to win something you have to do it much much
04:35 better than the opponents. When you are level always have the feeling that it's
04:38 not going to happen so we have to do much much better and this is what they
04:42 have to do. Like I tried a few chances that we concede and then try to you know
04:48 to concede goals and try to play. My feeling today we're going to win the
04:52 Premier League. If you ask me we're going to win the Premier League. If we play in the
04:55 level so Liverpool and Tottenham we are going to win it again. The people don't
05:00 believe it already for three draws but yeah we're going to do it again knowing
05:06 that is not easy because no one no team have done it yet so that's why the
05:14 difficulty is there. So it was last season, it was this season but if you ask me
05:19 today what you're feeling we're going to do it again. And can I just get an update
05:22 on Jeremy Doku specifically obviously he had to come off against Tottenham. Is
05:27 there an assessment of his issue? Is he fit? Training this afternoon I didn't
05:31 talk with the doctors and we'll see after. So you don't know yet whether he's available?
05:35 You said that apart from the Chelsea game you are not too worried about the goals
05:44 conceded because you're not conceding too many chances to the opponents.
05:47 I'm concerned about the goals conceded yeah definitely. Maybe I make my English
05:52 and that's be better. So of course I'm concerned but I'm saying the average is
05:57 lower than the last season. The chances conceded in every single game except
06:00 Chelsea game like that was well they create more than usual but the rest of
06:05 the games the same level that the previous seasons that we won a lot of
06:10 titles. And on the other box the chances that you miss is it is it not a worry as
06:15 long as you keep creating the chances to score? We are in the same level the last
06:21 season and previous seasons. Even I would say a little bit higher than the
06:24 previous season on the treble the chances and we create and the big ones.
06:28 Can I ask about Villa are you surprised at all with the way that they are looking
06:33 like fighting for a Champions League spot next season? Aston Villa?
06:38 They have incredible squad. You see the top players, the depth so and I said before so
06:47 United, Emery wherever he goes when he starts always getting better and every
06:50 month is better than the month before and every season is better than the
06:54 season before. So with three Europa Leagues in a row with Sevilla and did
07:00 incredible job in London with Arsenal and now with Aston Villa have done it in
07:04 Paris have done it in Valencia and everywhere so he's an excellent manager.
07:11 Just on John Stones is he how is he physically is he ready to start?
07:16 He's ready last game, he's ready now, he's ready.
07:21 Obviously we don't know if he's going to start tomorrow but do you see him as
07:25 somebody who could start in midfield instead of Rodri rather because obviously
07:29 normally he goes from defence into midfield do you think he could start in
07:33 midfield? He can play there, in Manu Kanji as well, in Nathan Hack as well.
07:38 He could actually start in there? Yeah.
07:44 Yeah, you ask me if he can. I'm not expecting anything more, you can say what you like.
07:50 You ask me if John can play as a holding midfielder and the other players said yeah.
07:54 That's fine, thank you.
07:59 to this evening.