21/12/24
Villa Park, Birmingham, UK.
Villa Park, Birmingham, UK.
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00:00How do you begin to explain that? Do you deserve more from the game or do you feel you've got the result you deserve?
00:12Congratulate us on Villar. The result is the result. It's the only thing we can not interpretate.
00:17First half was apart in the beginning. It was not good the first one or two minutes.
00:22After that I think we make a really good first half. I was not good in the second.
00:26We dropped maybe because I changed the pressing to adapt the quality for our captain.
00:32We struggled to drop them. We have done the first half really well with Jack in the final third.
00:41It's not easy to arrive because Onana and Kamara follow the pockets really well.
00:46Six players in the back, defensively strong, physicality, transition with Morgan and of course the other guys.
00:52The first half was much, much better than the game we played against United.
00:56The second half was not good enough. We lost again.
01:01Recovered these days, stay positive. Thanks to some players for the pride they show on the pitch again.
01:08The difficulties, how we want to help, how we want to be.
01:17Does it become harder for you week by week to keep spirits high, to keep the belief high?
01:27When the performance might be acceptable but the results are different.
01:32It's about the results. Like I said last game, we don't have defence about that. The results are not good.
01:38It's not about me, it's about how I can do with my people, what I can do to get the result back and continue.
01:47Hopefully the players will be back step by step and we can continue to do it.
01:55Do you ever question yourself when results go against you?
01:58Yeah, of course.
02:02You made six changes today. Are you disappointed that you brought different players in and yet the result is still the same?
02:10No. The first half we performed well, the second was not as good as the first half.
02:15I'm not disappointed for the performance, the guys that started out and they played.
02:20We're in a very tight period of games, lots of Premier League games in a short span of time.
02:27You talked about wanting the players back. Are you worried about not having any time to recover and players to get back to where they need to be?
02:36It happened since three months ago. Nothing has changed. It's the same.
02:43I have to deal with that. Starting 11 was good, the players in the band were good.
02:49It's not an easy place to come. Last season we were in the Premier League, we didn't win there.
02:54Today, for example, we played much better than last season in the way we played.
02:58I take positive things here and reflect.
03:05I have players like when I see them before, during and after, how they behave.
03:12As long as I can feel pride, let's go and think about the next one.
03:17Now it's over, analyse this one, good recovery, we'll see how many players are able to play in the next game.
03:22Against Everton, we'll try to do it.
03:27You said in one of your answers you felt that some of the players had fallen.
03:31Did you feel that second-half performance that some of your players didn't fight?
03:36No, no. I never point in nine or 14 years as a professional.
03:41Never point and never do one player. It would be easy for me to say that.
03:44I would be completely wrong because they play.
03:47When I said we dropped in the second half, the second half we dropped as a team.
03:50We were not like the first half, but not from any particular player.
03:54Never said, it never happened because they tried and they want to do it.
03:57I have to find the way, the solution, the balance to create more chances, score goals and not concede.
04:04Could I ask you about Morgan Rodgers? It was a long time ago that he left City.
04:09It's easy with hindsight to say he does look like a very good player.
04:12Absolutely.
04:13Do you remember the decision-making process?
04:15Do you know what happened? There are some players, it's the team that won the treble and the quadruple.
04:20Sometimes it's the right tempo, the right time, can give the chance.
04:25Of course, everybody knows how good Morgan is and a lot of players loan or sell him for the club.
04:32But it was in that age, at the moment, we have the players that we had,
04:38that allowed us to create more successful years in the football history, in our club.
04:47Comparing these 35, 40 days, they are not good.
04:50In that moment, sometimes when they arrive, they are two, three years younger.
04:54In that moment, they are Kevin in the prime and David Silva and Bernardo and Riyad and Leroy and Raheem.
05:01Sometimes it's difficult. That's the only reason why.
05:03In that situation right now, of course, these kind of players will be with us.
05:07It's obvious. But it was in the right moment. That's what happened.
05:10I'm happy for him because he's a lovely guy.
05:12He exploded, I think, last season and this season. He's a really, really top-class player.
05:16England have another exceptional player.
05:19Jürgen Klopp is pretty self-critical.
05:24He hasn't delivered as he should for Manchester City and that he's been failing in the defining moments.
05:32Do you think it's right of him to be so self-critical?
05:35I'm not agree with him. Without him, it would be even worse.
05:38But I like the players feeling that way.
05:41It's the only chance that we have to get better.
05:45There are two options.
05:47Like I said, your colleague asked me if I judge myself.
05:51I said yes.
05:53In the other situation, it's blame for what you have in your side.
05:57That depends on them.
05:59I'm not agree with Erling because we tried.
06:02At the end, he needs to be delivered the right balls in the right spots in the right positions.
06:08Now we'll recover and we'll fight for the next one.
06:15Do you think it's time for a change?
06:20I would say I'm not in the right moment to make creative tactical changes with some players like they are at.
06:29There is a moment that I'm not overthinking right now in that period.
06:33I try to be simple.
06:34Don't bother much.
06:35Go to the principles that help us.
06:36Give certainty to the team.
06:38To the players.
06:39What they can do on the pitch, they can do it.
06:41The benefits for the team, defensively and offensively.
06:44This is one of the points of that situation.
06:51It came because he said the last 10 minutes came back again.
06:54Disturbing that he had that last month.
07:05We saw it.
07:06I said now it's the third month.
07:09Manu made an effort.
07:10He trained one or two training sessions and came here in 90 minutes.
07:13Kovac is the same.
07:14I substituted Kovac because I said the game is not right and we have four days.
07:19We have a substitution for him.
07:21I've been one month out after the international break with Croatia.
07:25It's the same.
07:27Djibout is training again.
07:30We know that.
07:31We know he's there.
07:32What do we have to do?
07:33Don't play the games.
07:34No, we had to play the games.
07:36It's the players that we have.
07:37We have to perform 90 minutes what we have done in the first half.
07:41The first half was really good.
07:42Of course, they have two options.
07:44The pieces are really good.
07:45They are strong.
07:46They are physical.
07:47They are quicker, faster.
07:48We know that.
07:49In every team.
07:50We bring the team.
07:51Jack was so active.
07:52Arriving the ball, Phil and Gundo and Erling and the winger opposite side.
07:56Plus Kovacic and Rico sometimes arriving the positions.
08:00We had people there.
08:01We could see transitions but not a lot.
08:05In the second half, we could not continue stable.
08:07It happened a lot this season.
08:09We are not consistent.
08:10We have a really good period.
08:12I remember the first games when we lost against, not Bournemouth,
08:16but against Sporting Lisboa in the first half and Brighton in the first half.
08:22Many, many games we start really well.
08:25One or two up.
08:26But after we are not consistent to arrive for the lack of many reasons.
08:33That is the situation we have to deal.
08:39Wow.
08:40I am looking forward for the effort.
08:42What can I say?
08:43Can I just ask about transitions?
08:45Sporting Lisboa in the first half.
08:48It has happened quite a lot in that sort of thing.
08:52No.
08:53I would say it was a good action.
08:55Emiliano Martini made a good pass for Thielemann.
08:58Thielemann turned.
08:59Gianni Zerbi late.
09:01Kovac didn't follow the action that we do.
09:04Morgan moved in that way.
09:05He had to follow.
09:06For the players, it is more difficult to sometimes follow.
09:10I give more credit, I would say, for Aston Villa making the action.
09:15In the second half, for example, we were not as much aggressive
09:18as in the first half, like this action.
09:20They arrived more times in our box.
09:22They make a lot of passes.
09:24They link diagonal balls behind our holding midfielder with Thielemann,
09:27with Duran, with Morgan in that position.
09:29In the first half, it didn't happen.
09:30We were more effective.
09:31In the second half, we saw something, and it was not good.
09:36Sometimes I give credit because the opponents are good.
09:38We are not really convincing sometimes.
09:41When you go one or two duels, they are stronger.
09:43They dribble.
09:44They keep the ball.
09:45We go McQueen.
09:46They dribble you.
09:47We go to Morgan.
09:48They dribble you.
09:49After that, it is ineffective.
09:50When we were in that position, we win that duel.
09:52We win that duel.
09:53It happened for the lack of depth, for the out of minutes,
09:56for the specific players that we have now.
09:58Sometimes we struggle in that position.
10:00After that, you have to run a little bit more.
10:02But in the way we played in the first half, I like it.
10:05It is what I think we define.
10:07We don't create a match, but we have the Josco action.
10:09We have two or three shoots from Jack and actions from there.
10:12But, of course, it is obvious.
10:14We don't score the balls that we scored in the past.
10:16We concede the balls in the chances that we didn't concede in the past.
10:19When that happens, that is the reason why we lose games.
10:22We are not solid for the ball.
10:24We are not creating matches.
10:27It is simple.
10:28It is defined that that is the team that we are right now.
10:31It is not what we were in the last eight years.
10:33We have to accept it.
10:35It is the best way.
10:37Be serious with the players.
10:39They have to know exactly the reason why, what I believe is,
10:41and try the next game.