Guardiola frustrated as City throw away 2 goal lead to draw 2-2 with Palace
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola showed his frustrations as they threw away a 2 goal lead to draw 2-2 with Crystal Palace
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00:00 Evening, guys. Take a show of hands with mics on either side. And we'll set the bag off
00:16 towards the end for 10.30 on Sunday.
00:17 Is that concern just a part of what you're assessing?
00:36 No, it's not about luck. We give away two points. For yourself, you give away or give
00:44 this penalty, you deserve it. You see the chances we create, the chances we concede,
00:50 it's quite similar except Chelsea game all the season. But we are not able to close the
00:55 game. They don't do it. It's that feeling.
00:59 Is that because your team maybe eases off a little bit towards the end? Not as sort
01:08 of attack-minded?
01:09 Not as attack-minded. But 10 players are in the ATR box with 10 metres of space. They
01:13 have to be patient. They have to arrive and cross the zone at the right tempo. So playing
01:18 that way we don't concede absolutely anything as to the goal. It was a chance in the first
01:22 half that two players slipped. Josco and Netherson for the yellow card, a part of that they didn't
01:30 do. And until the goal at 75 minutes, they didn't do anything. So the team was really,
01:35 really good. But at the end, when you give away the penalty or give for the Crystal Palace
01:41 the penalties, you don't deserve it. It's like the penalty chassis. We don't deserve
01:46 it. So we looked at the game against Spurs, Liverpool today. So it was excellent. But
01:52 we are not able to win the game. So why that's happened? It's because we are not consistent
01:57 enough to close the game for many reasons.
02:00 It feels like that might be a problem to the team. They didn't feel like they were playing
02:17 with the same intensity in the last 20 minutes.
02:20 I do not agree with you. I do not agree. We are playing the same, which is difficult with
02:27 attack or whatever, because they don't want to stay there, stay there. Even when we want
02:30 to stay there. And they run away, 86 minutes, they go a little bit more forward. And at
02:35 the end we are out of control, put the dead, make it, don't put it. Maybe we need more
02:39 movement for the players in the final third. But at the end, OK, they don't want. OK, we
02:45 stay there.
02:46 So if you go back, back, back in the position we passed the ball there and we don't want
02:51 to attack, the game will be over. Because they are there. And at the end it's OK, passion
02:57 and don't concede transitions, don't concede. That's all they have done in seven years,
03:01 eight years in this type of games.
03:03 But of course in the first action they run, they score a goal and after the last minute
03:06 we give them. So the T.R. Box has to be careful and we were not. And when that's happened,
03:13 it's well deserved. We don't deserve to win. We win these penalties because we don't deserve
03:18 it.
03:19 Were you worried about the success they had at counter-attacking? I know they didn't have
03:24 a lot of counter-attacks but when they did, in the first half, they were getting them.
03:29 Crystal Palace? Yeah, 95 minutes, how many counter-attacks? Two?
03:33 No, not many.
03:34 Two? OK, I would love to have the chances they create and the counter-attacks we concede.
03:40 I would love it. So it's just few, really, really few.
03:44 When you drop points, you've got Samir Redmi coming up. Would you rather be...?
03:52 I would be better than a six, seven hour flight with the result, of course. Just three days
03:57 to recover, three days for a potential final. Otherwise, a semi-final, yeah, of course.
04:03 But it's what it is. Now we are down and we lift immediately as quick as possible and
04:10 go to compete there.
04:12 Okay, I'm setting the bar go up to 10,000 to 10,000 feet.