Guardiola on Haaland double and quality of Brentford
14/09/2024
Etihad stadium, Manchester, UK
14/09/2024
Etihad stadium, Manchester, UK
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00:00Evening, guys. We've got mics on either side, if we take a show of hands and we'll set an embargo for Swall TN for 10.30 on Sunday evening.
00:17We'll start with James, please.
00:20It's obviously been a really difficult week for Erling to produce a performance like that.
00:27Can you just talk about his performance, what he's been through?
00:30And was it just this morning that he said he was fine to start?
00:35No, yesterday.
00:36Yesterday he said I'm up and he knew it.
00:39Of course, I've been tough on a close family, by the way, at that age.
00:44It's difficult for every human being.
00:47But the other day he came back, he was a little bit down.
00:51But, you know, locker room.
00:53And we try to take care of everyone here.
00:56So we take care of each other.
00:59So when someone has a problem, you have to be close to them.
01:02And yesterday was much better.
01:04His mood was, you know, making jokes, it was better.
01:09And the best way, you know, sometimes to forget things is to do your job.
01:13And he's been doing it for many years perfectly.
01:18And just on the goals, not the best first half an hour or so,
01:23but when you've got a player like that, he just wins games for you.
01:28Yeah, right.
01:29So the first time, I don't remember, eight, nine years,
01:33the team playing the way they played Bremford, the first 20, 30 minutes.
01:38And I give credit to them.
01:40It's not our best.
01:41It's not easy to handle.
01:42Not even one minute, concede a goal.
01:44And these kind of things, it's not easy to handle it.
01:47But they were maybe 0-2.
01:50So 0-3, I don't know.
01:52Every time had the ball, created a chance.
01:55I don't remember a team creating this kind of situation.
01:58Long balls, winning duels.
02:00Short passes, they break the lines.
02:03Quick in the transitions.
02:04Strong in every corner, every single piece.
02:06So it's an extraordinary team.
02:08We suffered since they were promoted in the Premier League.
02:14All the games against Bremford from Thomas have been like that.
02:17So I don't remember an easy game.
02:19Maybe last season there when Phil scored a hat-trick.
02:22But the rest have been so tight.
02:24And always like it because they are really good, not because we were bad.
02:28Sometimes you have to understand the opponents are really good, and they are.
02:31But the second half, we were lucky with the 2-1 up.
02:35So the second half was our best.
02:37And we created a lot of chances.
02:39And we could score more.
02:42James?
02:43Hi Pep.
02:44How would you describe the sport this season?
02:47Is this the best you've been since the start of football?
02:50You've been great anyway.
02:51This season, compared to other years, is it the best ever?
02:55It's really, really good, yeah.
02:58Yeah, I would say it's the best, yeah.
03:01But it's just for features and not too many games.
03:05I always see the table after 10 features, 10, 12.
03:08So I don't pay any attention after 3 or 4.
03:12It's better to have 12 points than not have it, that's for sure.
03:15But many things are going to happen.
03:17And today new players came in for the rhythm.
03:20Gondogan didn't make it this season.
03:22And Kyle in the first game, and John and everything.
03:25So it's important because we need everyone.
03:27Otherwise it's impossible to sustain it.
03:31And especially, it's so productive for us to win these types of games.
03:36Winning it, of course, is important, but in that way.
03:38The players, sometimes I cannot warn them.
03:41Oh, be careful, be careful.
03:42Now they felt it.
03:43They felt it.
03:44From the first minute until the end.
03:46Even the staff said, oh my God, how we suffered today.
03:49And this is what it is.
03:51That's why it's so difficult to win the Premier League.
03:54Because look at the results this weekend.
03:56So it's very tight, the opponents are really good.
03:59All the keepers are really good.
04:00They make good build-ups.
04:02You know, look.
04:03Flecker is amazing with the balls.
04:06He at the end, Manfrey, inside with Bebo,
04:09Bebo, Dado Carvalho at the end.
04:12So, with Dumpstack, with Wieser, so fast.
04:15And they are an exceptional team.
04:18So that's why I give a lot, a lot of credit to our victory today.
04:21How much mental strength do you need to have this stuff going on,
04:28this sadness, things that affect your life?
04:31Go on a football pitch and almost...
04:34I don't know.
04:35That's it?
04:36I don't know.
04:37Play and do better?
04:38You have to ask him, I don't know, I didn't ask him.
04:40It has to be strength, of course.
04:42And maybe for 90 minutes forget when you play,
04:45forget your personal life, the punch in your face,
04:48the life give it to you.
04:49So it's good, you know, playing.
04:51I didn't speak, of course, we were in touch.
04:54How does he feel?
04:55But I didn't even ask him.
04:57So, are you ready to play or whatever?
04:59So, I said, okay, he's going to play.
05:01If he's not ready, he will come to me to say, Pep, I'm not ready.
05:04He didn't say that to me.
05:06And for us, he's an incredible weapon, you know.
05:08A team is like one against one.
05:11When you isolate him with a central defender with a quality
05:14that you have with Ederson and Stefan for the long balls
05:18and low passes.
05:19So it's a weapon that, you know, we have to explode,
05:23we have to use it.
05:25And the best way is 93 minutes, 92 minutes,
05:28you know, forget and just, you know, just play.
05:34He talks about how you struggled against Brentford.
05:36What is it that they do that makes life so hard for you?
05:39I have a huge list to tell you.
05:41A huge list.
05:43They are good in high pressing.
05:45They are good in the long balls, second balls.
05:48They defend deep so compact, allow them to go outside
05:51and no spaces inside.
05:53The transitions with Wissa and Tony and Bebo,
05:57so they are really, really good.
05:59This season, even, when they make high pressing,
06:03the last season of high pressing was long ball to Tony.
06:05This season, no.
06:06This season, they play short passes, they break,
06:08move inside, outside, not today so quick.
06:12Set pieces.
06:13Every corner is a headache.
06:15Every throwing in the final 30 is a headache.
06:18Every free kick.
06:20Because they are, every department,
06:22all the things they do, they need a manager behind.
06:26A manager.
06:28Sometimes you see a team that said,
06:30it's more whatever happened.
06:32What they do is always sense.
06:34He's one of the best.
06:36Thomas is one of the best.
06:38Are you surprised that the European club has a contact
06:42that you still haven't read?
06:44Question of time.
06:46He will get it.
06:49They will get a good manager when this is going to happen.
06:53I'm good in a few things.
06:55I can read which manager is good.
06:57I know which one is good.