Guardiola on City injury latest ahead of Brentford
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00:00 It comes with being champions, but is there more pressure on you to win?
00:03 Because Liverpool and Arsenal keep winning.
00:06 Why is that?
00:10 When we win games, next game we have the same pressure as tomorrow to do it.
00:16 The last 50 games we won 13 and we drew 2.
00:19 And the 2 we drew, we played to win the game.
00:22 The pressure is the same, no difference.
00:26 In terms of Brentford, it's not long since you played them.
00:30 Neil Maupay seems to make a habit of winding players up from opposition teams.
00:38 Is he someone that you have to stress to your players not to allow him to come to their skin?
00:44 I don't think so.
00:46 Just in case you have to ask him, but I don't think so.
00:49 He's a good football player and sometimes happens.
00:53 I'm pretty sure the intention is good.
00:56 In terms of your team's form, you've just said you've won all these games in a row until Saturday.
01:03 Do you feel as though you're in the right form to come into this period?
01:09 We play to win the game, always we can accept a no-start.
01:15 Don't be in a top level maybe during 90 minutes, but during...
01:20 I don't know the moment they score a goal,
01:24 but since then, the last five or ten minutes in the first half and the second half,
01:27 we were in our best level.
01:29 But I know the standards that we have, that we create to be there,
01:35 what we have done in the past.
01:37 I understand completely the doubts for the people,
01:41 but what I'm seeing, I'm more than satisfied.
01:44 So at the end, I'll give credit to Chelsea for creating problems,
01:48 not just because in some actions we were not good, but it's happened.
01:53 But in general, when you analyse the game,
01:57 in general, we were more than decent.
02:00 But I know our standards, and you demand our standards for what we have done in the past.
02:06 I know it's not easy to sustain it for a long, long time, we did it,
02:10 but maybe for 12 months or 11 months it's not easy, but we're there.
02:16 So, it's not easy because we drew a game against Chelsea at home,
02:20 and now we have to do it.
02:23 We were 11 games winning, winning, winning,
02:26 and the people say, "They are not going to lose any other game."
02:29 So now it's the complete subject, just for one draw,
02:32 and in 55, 60 minutes we were who we are.
02:36 Hi Pep, how eager are you and your team to get back out there and play again
02:41 after dropping the points against Chelsea?
02:43 Does it give you the extra fire to prove again the level that you have shown?
02:49 If we had won 3-0 against Chelsea, the fire would be the same to win the game.
02:54 It's no change match, it's always the same.
02:58 How much will you learn again about your players in this moment?
03:02 I think you said after the match against Chelsea that it's a bit of a reminder
03:06 of the level that you have to be at for 94, 95 minutes every single game.
03:11 Yeah, you demand it from us all the time,
03:13 the only thing, because we achieve what we achieve.
03:16 We have to live with that, we know that.
03:19 It's you for your comments in the past, in the last month, that you are wrong.
03:23 So we know how difficult it is, we know it.
03:27 So we know it.
03:29 It's you that believe it's easy, not us.
03:32 Can I just check on the injuries as well?
03:34 Jack Grealish, Jasko Wardial, I'm guessing they're still out,
03:37 are there any other issues for you?
03:39 They are not ready for tomorrow.
03:41 Everyone else OK?
03:44 Yeah, everything is OK.
03:46 Thank you.
03:47 Hi Pep, you met with Joe Mazzullo, the head coach of the Boston Celtics we saw last week.
03:58 Do you enjoy trying to learn from other coaches, did you enjoy that experience?
04:02 Yeah, of course.
04:03 It was a pleasure for us to come, we were in touch last month.
04:08 He said to me he would like to come again and have an All-Star in the NBA,
04:11 to have a few days with the family here in London,
04:14 and then back to the business in Massachusetts.
04:16 It was really, really nice to have him and his family.
04:20 With Ivan Toni last season, we saw how well he did,
04:25 and we've seen how well he's done coming back.
04:28 How do you see him as a player?
04:30 He's so dangerous.
04:32 The long ball is the master, he used the body for the second ball, good finishing.
04:36 You can link with him, one of the best I've ever seen.
04:40 He's a real threat, always has been.
04:42 It was a few weeks ago when we were there.
04:45 The goal we conceded was we defended not properly, but he did it really well.
04:52 And forgive me for asking this, but there's reports that the City group
04:55 met up with Kylian Mbappe's people.
04:58 What do you make of Kylian Mbappe as a player?
05:02 I think he's quite good.
05:05 He has a future.
05:08 He's really, really good.
05:11 Hi, Pep.
05:12 Is this, in a way, the price of success?
05:14 People demand from you perfection every game?
05:16 Absolutely.
05:18 I had the experience in my previous club, especially in Barcelona.
05:22 Absolutely.
05:24 How do you deal with that, or balance with the internal perception?
05:28 It's an honour, go for it.
05:31 But that will not be...
05:33 No effect, we know.
05:37 We know what it is, and we have to continue doing what we try.
05:41 But it's normal.
05:42 I knew it.
05:43 I knew it after that, that in the beginning it was a lack of consistency,
05:48 a lack of...
05:49 And I said, it's how we behave in many, many things, and how we perform.
05:57 And I'm the first to demand myself and the team to do it during 95 minutes,
06:01 knowing that it's impossible.
06:05 But how we react, and how we were in the game all the time, and we were there.
06:11 So we create a lot of chances against Chelsea,
06:15 that lately, a few teams create chances.
06:18 This is my view.
06:20 That doesn't mean tomorrow will be easier, absolutely not.
06:24 For the expectations we had against Renfrew in the past,
06:28 always have been so complicated and difficult.
06:30 And tomorrow will not be an exception, for the quality they have,
06:33 for the way they play.
06:35 But yeah, you have the opportunity to climb to the second position,
06:39 to go one point in front of Arsenal, to be just close to Liverpool,
06:43 and still a lot of games to play.
06:47 But the reality is, since we lost against Aston Villa,
06:50 we didn't lose one game, and the games we drew, we were better.
06:55 And as a result, it's OK, we drew.
06:57 But 95 minutes, which team were better against Crystal Palace and Chelsea?
07:00 We were better.
07:02 And the games we won, we were better? Yeah, we were better.
07:05 So this is my point.
07:07 We're going to win the Premier League, I don't know.
07:11 I've said many times, in the next 10 years,
07:12 we're going to win the Premier League, Man City?
07:14 No, it's not going to happen.
07:16 But still, we are there, and this is where we continue.
07:19 So we were not satisfied with the result,
07:22 but it's part of the game, because we don't play alone.
07:25 The opponents always play.
07:26 And why you don't give credit to Chelsea,
07:28 what they have done in the first half?
07:30 When they link, they attack from outside, make a counter-attack.
07:34 In the second half, the chances they had, offside all of them.
07:37 Offside all of them.
07:38 But the referees today, they allowed to play, but it was offside.
07:42 So we played good, we had a lot of chances,
07:44 a lot more in the second than the first,
07:46 but the first two were on us,
07:49 and a clear one from Julian and Erling.
07:52 And this has to continue, to improve, to improve,
07:54 be focused and be on the title race.
07:58 Okay, so the embargo for 10 days this evening.