Guardiola on title race and need for perfection
etihad stadium, Manchester, UK
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00:00 in the morning then switch the television up and find that you're 3-0 up at half-time?
00:04 I don't know, I'm not in the mind of the Arsenal fans.
00:09 So they do what they have to do in the games.
00:13 Only the situation we have is, I'm not saying we're full,
00:18 I'm always being really tough for us and Spurs, except for FA Cup,
00:21 never won before in the Premier League.
00:23 So I don't consider it, and the fact that the situation we are in will be easy.
00:31 But of course, it's one week, three games, and the important thing is it's in our hands.
00:35 If we win the games, we'll be champions.
00:38 So the players know it, feel it, experience in the past,
00:40 you have to do it again and again and again.
00:42 It's going to be easy, no? But it's in our hands.
00:48 So, that's all.
00:50 Simon?
00:53 Pep, 24 goals you've scored in your last six league games,
00:56 is it as simple as key players coming back from injury?
00:59 What's clicked in the last two months for you?
01:02 I think always we score goals, we have important players injured,
01:06 so now we are at everybody's feet.
01:08 Look at the last minutes from Jeremy, how incredible it was.
01:12 So we need everyone, and the players know it.
01:18 It's one week, a couple of days off, rest, and go to 12.30 Fulham Saturday,
01:28 and after Fulham, Tuesday, and hopefully we can arrive here in the press conference,
01:34 or the previous press conference events, West Ham, with a chance that is in our hands.
01:39 Ian?
01:40 Hi Pep, I think that's 16 out of 18 penalties for Erling in two seasons.
01:46 It wasn't that long ago, penalties seem to be a bit of a problem for you,
01:49 you miss quite a few over two or three seasons,
01:51 even a great player like Sergio Aguero missed a lot of penalties.
01:53 Yeah, you're right.
01:54 Is that a mental thing as much as a technique thing?
01:56 What does that say about Erling and his ability to score so many penalties?
02:00 Mental strength is a skill as well.
02:04 And the people say, 'Oh, the penalty shooting is lucky.'
02:08 No, it's not lucky.
02:10 You are a good taker, you have a better chance,
02:12 you have a good keeper, you have a better chance.
02:15 Erling is going to miss penalties, but everybody knows he's a guarantee,
02:19 he's a good taker of speed, and I'm going to take a penalty and I'm going to score.
02:25 Yeah, confidence.
02:27 Right.
02:28 Paul?
02:29 Just on Jusco Guardiola, he seems to have developed a lot more
02:34 in terms of his confidence going forward in the last few weeks,
02:36 how pleased are you with his progression into that role at Leicester?
02:40 I would say more than weeks, I would say months already.
02:43 It was a period I was so uncertain, it was not really, really good.
02:47 I said before, it's normal for a season, Premier League,
02:51 demanding challenges, skills and strength.
02:56 But we talked, we saw many of his performances and he got it.
03:03 So, he can play central defender, he can play left, he's just 20, 21 years old.
03:08 So he's an unbelievably lovely guy.
03:12 He's beloved, like you cannot imagine, for his humility.
03:16 And we are really, really pleased.
03:19 Last one with Dave, please guys.
03:21 In the last few weeks, I think you've played after Arsenal.
03:25 Next week it flips, obviously, you play at lunchtime.
03:29 If you do win at Fulham and you go top, how significant could that be?
03:32 Because obviously they've got a tough game at Manchester United on Sunday.
03:37 We play Fulham after, we have to win.
03:41 And Arsenal knows they have to win.
03:43 And not just the 11 players, the staff, the acrobat staff, all the fans, everyone knows
03:48 that it's not one little mistake because you will lose the Premier League.
03:53 We know it, but they know it, what happened in Liverpool in the past.
03:57 So, play before, today we arrived here and the players know,
04:01 guys, if we don't win, ciao, ciao, bye, bye.
04:04 Next season we'll see each other.
04:07 So it's not much complicated, it doesn't matter if it's before or later.
04:11 So just in case, hopefully we win against Fulham, they will play in Old Trafford.
04:15 Of course they play for Europa League.
04:18 But they say, if we don't win today, we will not be champions.
04:22 So when that happens, it's more difficult in terms of it's easier,
04:27 because you see the level of consistency of Arsenal since winter break.
04:30 It's the way they're playing, it's not the winning, it's the way they're playing.
04:34 So you smell they're not going to lose the two games left they have.
04:39 They are not going to lose.
04:41 Thank you.
04:42 Sorry?
04:44 It's a question for Teng Haak and Mikel, not for me.
04:48 Thank you, guys.