Guardiola on Leicester trip and finding solutions to City's crippling injury crisis
shot 26/12 embargoed until 28/12/2024
Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK
shot 26/12 embargoed until 28/12/2024
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00:00More questions, then we'll go to 1.30 on the 28th, Phil, please.
00:06Yeah, Saturday afternoon, please, Phil.
00:11As a manager, how tough is it to find a way of turning things around,
00:16whether the team's playing good, bad or indifferent?
00:18If results aren't coming, do you have to keep doing the same thing in training
00:22until it does, or do you have to be more innovative
00:25and find a way to inspire them to turn them around?
00:30Yeah, we try it. We try it.
00:32How tough is it to keep finding new ways, though?
00:34Yeah, keep going.
00:36Sometimes your spec will be earlier or easier to fix it,
00:40but sometimes you take more time and I will not give up.
00:44I will.
00:46I want to be, I want to be, I want to do it,
00:49and with the situations that we have, we have to do it.
00:52And now we go to Leicester, which has been difficult to try to
00:56do a good game against results, and the players will be ready, we will do it.
01:00And as a manager who's been successful everywhere you've been,
01:05and this is obviously the longest run, does this...
01:09make you even more determined to get it right, to say,
01:13right, first long-term bad run I've had, I'll show you I can come through.
01:17I've shown you I can do with the big, create the good times.
01:20I'll show you I can get through the bad times as a manager.
01:23Yeah, of course I want it. Everybody wants it.
01:26Yeah, I feel, you know, I don't want to disappoint my people.
01:29In terms of the club, in terms of the fans or the people who love this club.
01:36But...
01:38we'll send the results, nothing to say.
01:41I said the last week, every time, I'm saying about how you performed today
01:46in many moments that, yeah, it was really, really good,
01:50knowing the quality of the opponent.
01:51Just for you personally, does that give you a greater determination
01:54to please the people, to bring back...
01:56But even just now, since I arrived in my career as a football player,
02:00as a manager, I think every one of us in our job want to please the people,
02:04want to do good our job.
02:05That is undeniable, that is not a question mark, I would say.
02:09So it's easy to understand.
02:12But here...
02:13It's a great test when things are going badly.
02:15The great test I have done.
02:17We will come back, that's what already happened.
02:20But that makes me remember how good was the past.
02:22That's the truth.
02:24That makes me realise now what we have done.
02:28Because sometimes you have injuries,
02:29and how many years we were incredibly, incredibly consistent.
02:33You know?
02:34But, yeah, we were a little bit down.
02:38We didn't expect much.
02:39And the main, main reason is, like Jack said,
02:41having seven, eight important injured players.
02:45And after every three days, it's more difficult.
02:47But I see the team, the spirit, how yesterday's training,
02:50how focused they are in all we try to practise,
02:52how to try to do it.
02:54And we saw today the game, we saw it.
02:57But, unfortunately, we could not get the result that we wanted.
03:02Arjen, in your first season, you lost 4-2 at Leicester,
03:06it was a game where they scored three goals really early.
03:08That seemed like a really low moment in your city reign.
03:11Now, obviously, there's lots and lots of trophies won since,
03:14but how does the confidence and just everything around the team now,
03:19in this run, compare to that team eight years ago,
03:23who went to Leicester and lost that game quite badly?
03:28I'll compare one situation that eight, nine years ago.
03:32I don't know if it's fair or not,
03:34but I don't have a related one than the other one.
03:39That season was the first year when, more or less, the squad was there.
03:43I don't know in which month it was.
03:45It was a low point, right?
03:48But, yeah, after we built what we built,
03:50I don't see similarities, to be honest.
03:55I don't see it.
03:56Last one with Jamie, please, guys.
03:59Hi Pep, hello, hello.
04:01Just on Erling Haaland, he's obviously a phenomenal, amazing player,
04:04all the rest of it.
04:05So with regard to the penalty miss,
04:06will you talk to him about it,
04:07or does he not need to be spoken to because he's so good?
04:10I congratulate the team, I said it again.
04:12He was a well-played guy,
04:14so the only chance that we have is to continue to more recovery,
04:19prepare well for the trip to Leicester, play the game, New Year's Eve.
04:23We have days to do that.
04:27That's why it's like the United game was the moment
04:30when we can change the dynamic.
04:31Today, they changed the dynamic.
04:33Unfortunately, we could not do it for many reasons.
04:36United were given away.
04:38Today, we were close again.
04:40But, yeah, I don't have for my education to say,
04:47start to complain, start to point people,
04:50it's time to...
04:53It's happened, it's life, it's football,
04:55try it again, try it again.
04:57That's why we had success, because it was always not enough.
05:00We try it again and again and again.
05:02And that's why we won a lot of titles,
05:04and every three days, game, game, game,
05:06we win, win, win for many, many months, many, many years.
05:09Because again and again, and I had to do the same.
05:11And the results are not good.
05:13Yeah, because you seem very calm throughout this whole run.
05:17Is that easy for you, or is it just something that
05:20you're having to force yourself to be calm before us, before your team?
05:22You seem very, still very much in control.
05:24Is that easy?
05:28It's what it is.
05:29I prefer I don't leave that situation, but it's what it is.
05:32I think it's trying to be as much calm as possible,
05:36to try to read what is the situation.
05:39The situation, the results, it's obvious,
05:40but what can you do to next game to do it better with the players,
05:43come back and the players, you know, start in that position.
05:47This is what we want to try, we want to do.
05:51It's all I want to do.
05:52Thank you, guys.