Prem schedule a big problem - Pep on fixture congestion - video Dailymotion

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola attacked the Premier League schedule and fixture congestion in football ahead of Saturday's game with Newcastle

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00:00 You know, every day we arrive here in the training centre, we open the door and we see

00:05 the four trophies in front of us.

00:08 You see the Premier League, the Champions League, the FA Cup, now the Super Cup.

00:11 Wow, say, how nice is that?

00:14 How difficult is that?

00:16 And we love it.

00:17 We love to watch it and we want to continue to compete.

00:21 Now we have a big, big problem, especially with this game, but in general.

00:26 But that is what it is.

00:28 So I would love...

00:32 Every manager would see the same in my position.

00:36 People went to sleep at 4am in Greece, we play at 10am, at 4am.

00:41 Arrive, recovery with 35 degrees, 40 degrees in Greece, come back, arrive here late, tomorrow

00:46 is the previous game, tomorrow game.

00:48 Today we cannot train.

00:49 I would train, but today everyone in the pool, everyone in the table, massage, nothing.

00:53 We're not going to do anything.

00:55 Because we don't have time.

00:56 So we love one more day.

00:58 But OK, we accept it, this is the challenge.

01:01 Every manager would say the same.

01:02 We are the challenge.

01:03 This is the problem, difficulty.

01:05 That's why we won.

01:07 Because we overcome all the time these kind of positions.

01:09 In wintertime, always we had less time to recover between the games.

01:15 In the boxing days, not the problem.

01:17 We have to go there and try it.

01:19 The more physical team, the transition team in the Premier League right now, alongside

01:22 Liverpool, Newcastle, have to be incredibly careful in many things.

01:26 But this is what defines the big teams, how we compete with the problems.

01:32 When everything is suited, everything is comfortable, that is not the point.

01:36 The point is that, it's tomorrow.

01:38 That's why when we play in Newcastle, that cannot happen, but we play at home.

01:45 And at home I want to see our crowd, a lot of noise.

01:50 We need them, we need them, more than ever.