Guardiola on City missing chances and rebuilding squad confidence after Spurs defeat
Embargoed section - Part 2
23/11/2024
Etihad Stadium, Manchester, Uk
Embargoed section - Part 2
23/11/2024
Etihad Stadium, Manchester, Uk
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00:00Erling didn't score tonight and it feels like when Erling doesn't score there isn't quite
00:10the support from the rest of the players backing him up this season.
00:14Yeah he's the main target but Phil had two or three clear chances and Josco had one or
00:19two clear chances so I don't know how to review the game but the fact that the way we played
00:25in different shapes in the first and second half, the way we were playing was good.
00:29I don't think we didn't create not enough chances.
00:32We created a lot of chances but it's true that in our way we are there and after you
00:38know the link there, Son kept the ball, Sklusecki contact inside and after run if we don't win
00:44these first actions it's more difficult and they were brilliant, they were good so maybe
00:48we have to accept it.
00:49Do you need more players to step up and take some of the goal scoring responsibility with
00:55Erling?
00:57Yeah maybe yeah but I don't think the chances are there so the same like for example in
01:07Brighton but that's where it is.
01:10Of course we won a lot of players a score but it's happened now so I think we had the
01:18chances and clear clear ones with 0-0, 0-1, 0-2 we were there and I know Etihad when we
01:28are there we can score goals, our momentum is there but now in that moment we are not
01:34solid enough that is the truth so in both sides normally we are solid but we could see
01:39the goals.
01:40No in both sides we are not good enough.
01:45When you were talking about the new contract with the club and when you signed it did you
01:49think that there would be, looking to the future there would need to be a degree of
01:55rebuilding of the squad to change it over the period of time?
01:59I think the squad when all the squad is there is exceptional.
02:04I would not be for my boys that my words that the team is not good but the team is not ready
02:10here it is a little bit the problem that we have in this period but the team is really
02:16good and at the end of the season or whatever of course like I'm here and I want to be we
02:21will take the right decisions what we have to do but it looks like when I'm saying that
02:27I trust more than ever with these players so I've been here as a football player you
02:32have doubts and you want to win and they are desperate to do it well they are not it doesn't
02:37matter absolutely not I see them every day training session how they are focused today
02:41in the locker room in the warm up and after the game how they feel it they feel it the
02:48football players not just here and everywhere they feel it they want to do it well but sometimes
02:52you have to accept it sometimes yeah it's not like we have been eight years but I said
02:58before and I said here so sooner or later it should have happened sooner or later I
03:05know that people win again and again and again sooner or later you have that for many
03:09reasons little details it's not about will be easy to say that is the reason why me or
03:14players or I don't know whatever will be easy to fix there are little little little things
03:19to start wrong from the beginning of the season and it was getting worse little worse in situations
03:27and say no the squad the squad is really good when we are all together it's really really
03:31good but unfortunately then now you have to face it so I cannot say anything so so
03:37with the situations what you have to do keep going my friends keep going keep going we
03:41have done it in the past in terms of being not as bad as now in terms of results but
03:48we have done it and we face the situation and we move forward last two with Jack and
03:52Sam please you mentioned before that the negative thoughts inside the players heads which is
03:58natural if you've lost four games on the top how was a manager and a coaching staff
04:02do you go about working on that in the week do you have is it a case where maybe don't
04:09see each other as much as a normal season when they are lazy or they don't care and
04:14after that I have to be there but when I know they try it and when I try it I'm there I'm
04:20there in a good way so they don't want to leave I never saw a football player never
04:25I have in my life that they want to perform bad they don't want to you know make a bad
04:32performance for his family for his mates for the fans for for the club is there nobody
04:38wants it when a player go there in front of 60,000 people they want to perform well but
04:42sometimes for many reasons it hurts it's more difficult and is it just a is there a slight
04:49problem with reacting to adversity in games I know we've spoken about this already this
04:53season sort of when the team goes behind maybe a few heads drop
04:59when you lose 0-4 all the comments that miss this miss that miss this yeah can happen yeah
05:11it's true so but I don't have the feeling with 0-1 we react really bad on the second
05:19half with 0-3 was our best moments until the last moment that we concede the fourth
05:24I think the team was it was good but then it created the chances we were there but unfortunately
05:29we could not do it that's one side I bet you've talked about the first actions and the jewels
05:34and the second balls not just in this game but after a lot of games and obviously the
05:37teams you're playing against are good but also City need to be good need to be better
05:41in those actions what is what has been the problem there is it some is it the the knock-on
05:48effect of the injuries is it something the squad doesn't have without Rodri and now Kovacic
05:53as well is it something that you might need to get from outside is there something you
05:56can get from the players you've already got of course the present from from central defenders
06:00with their feet with Rodri of course with Kovacic with his pace of course of course
06:06it's completely different than the other one but you have to deal with that that's all
06:08you have to deal with that type of game you know when more and more control or more this
06:13kind of things yeah but during the seasons it happened we don't expect to lose important
06:18players for many many time but it's happened I got to find a way when I start to lose I
06:23said to the people I have to find a way I have to it's my duty my responsibility find
06:28a way to be more consistent and our game will better and win games and it is a this is what
06:34you have to do do you think the players in the squad at the moment have got that ability
06:39to to win those jewels again we have to find another and another abilities if we don't
06:44have this one you have to find another way to win it so sometimes what you don't have
06:48it put the reasons because for many reasons it doesn't matter we have to do it so in another
06:53way in which players we have at our disposal these ones are better than the other ones
06:58okay let's go and let's try to you know to do it in in with them for the potential the
07:05qualities that we have and that is what we have tried to do and we are thinking for the
07:09last last weeks thank you okay good night