Guardiola on City injury latest ahead of Brentford

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00:00 It comes with being champions, but is there more pressure on you to win?

00:03 Because Liverpool and Arsenal keep winning.

00:06 Why is that?

00:10 When we win games, next game we have the same pressure as tomorrow to do it.

00:16 The last 50 games we won 13 and we drew 2.

00:19 And the 2 we drew, we played to win the game.

00:22 The pressure is the same, no difference.

00:26 In terms of Brentford, it's not long since you played them.

00:30 Neil Maupay seems to make a habit of winding players up from opposition teams.

00:38 Is he someone that you have to stress to your players not to allow him to come to their skin?

00:44 I don't think so.

00:46 Just in case you have to ask him, but I don't think so.

00:49 He's a good football player and sometimes happens.

00:53 I'm pretty sure the intention is good.

00:56 In terms of your team's form, you've just said you've won all these games in a row until Saturday.

01:03 Do you feel as though you're in the right form to come into this period?

01:09 We play to win the game, always we can accept a no-start.

01:15 Don't be in a top level maybe during 90 minutes, but during...

01:20 I don't know the moment they score a goal,

01:24 but since then, the last five or ten minutes in the first half and the second half,

01:27 we were in our best level.

01:29 But I know the standards that we have, that we create to be there,

01:35 what we have done in the past.

01:37 I understand completely the doubts for the people,

01:41 but what I'm seeing, I'm more than satisfied.

01:44 So at the end, I'll give credit to Chelsea for creating problems,

01:48 not just because in some actions we were not good, but it's happened.

01:53 But in general, when you analyse the game,

01:57 in general, we were more than decent.

02:00 But I know our standards, and you demand our standards for what we have done in the past.

02:06 I know it's not easy to sustain it for a long, long time, we did it,

02:10 but maybe for 12 months or 11 months it's not easy, but we're there.

02:16 So, it's not easy because we drew a game against Chelsea at home,

02:20 and now we have to do it.

02:23 We were 11 games winning, winning, winning,

02:26 and the people say, "They are not going to lose any other game."

02:29 So now it's the complete subject, just for one draw,

02:32 and in 55, 60 minutes we were who we are.

02:36 Hi Pep, how eager are you and your team to get back out there and play again

02:41 after dropping the points against Chelsea?

02:43 Does it give you the extra fire to prove again the level that you have shown?

02:49 If we had won 3-0 against Chelsea, the fire would be the same to win the game.

02:54 It's no change match, it's always the same.

02:58 How much will you learn again about your players in this moment?

03:02 I think you said after the match against Chelsea that it's a bit of a reminder

03:06 of the level that you have to be at for 94, 95 minutes every single game.

03:11 Yeah, you demand it from us all the time,

03:13 the only thing, because we achieve what we achieve.

03:16 We have to live with that, we know that.

03:19 It's you for your comments in the past, in the last month, that you are wrong.

03:23 So we know how difficult it is, we know it.

03:27 So we know it.

03:29 It's you that believe it's easy, not us.

03:32 Can I just check on the injuries as well?

03:34 Jack Grealish, Jasko Wardial, I'm guessing they're still out,

03:37 are there any other issues for you?

03:39 They are not ready for tomorrow.

03:41 Everyone else OK?

03:44 Yeah, everything is OK.

03:46 Thank you.

03:47 Hi Pep, you met with Joe Mazzullo, the head coach of the Boston Celtics we saw last week.

03:58 Do you enjoy trying to learn from other coaches, did you enjoy that experience?

04:02 Yeah, of course.

04:03 It was a pleasure for us to come, we were in touch last month.

04:08 He said to me he would like to come again and have an All-Star in the NBA,

04:11 to have a few days with the family here in London,

04:14 and then back to the business in Massachusetts.

04:16 It was really, really nice to have him and his family.

04:20 With Ivan Toni last season, we saw how well he did,

04:25 and we've seen how well he's done coming back.

04:28 How do you see him as a player?

04:30 He's so dangerous.

04:32 The long ball is the master, he used the body for the second ball, good finishing.

04:36 You can link with him, one of the best I've ever seen.

04:40 He's a real threat, always has been.

04:42 It was a few weeks ago when we were there.

04:45 The goal we conceded was we defended not properly, but he did it really well.

04:52 And forgive me for asking this, but there's reports that the City group

04:55 met up with Kylian Mbappe's people.

04:58 What do you make of Kylian Mbappe as a player?

05:02 I think he's quite good.

05:05 He has a future.

05:08 He's really, really good.

05:11 Hi, Pep.

05:12 Is this, in a way, the price of success?

05:14 People demand from you perfection every game?

05:16 Absolutely.

05:18 I had the experience in my previous club, especially in Barcelona.

05:22 Absolutely.

05:24 How do you deal with that, or balance with the internal perception?

05:28 It's an honour, go for it.

05:31 But that will not be...

05:33 No effect, we know.

05:37 We know what it is, and we have to continue doing what we try.

05:41 But it's normal.

05:42 I knew it.

05:43 I knew it after that, that in the beginning it was a lack of consistency,

05:48 a lack of...

05:49 And I said, it's how we behave in many, many things, and how we perform.

05:57 And I'm the first to demand myself and the team to do it during 95 minutes,

06:01 knowing that it's impossible.

06:05 But how we react, and how we were in the game all the time, and we were there.

06:11 So we create a lot of chances against Chelsea,

06:15 that lately, a few teams create chances.

06:18 This is my view.

06:20 That doesn't mean tomorrow will be easier, absolutely not.

06:24 For the expectations we had against Renfrew in the past,

06:28 always have been so complicated and difficult.

06:30 And tomorrow will not be an exception, for the quality they have,

06:33 for the way they play.

06:35 But yeah, you have the opportunity to climb to the second position,

06:39 to go one point in front of Arsenal, to be just close to Liverpool,

06:43 and still a lot of games to play.

06:47 But the reality is, since we lost against Aston Villa,

06:50 we didn't lose one game, and the games we drew, we were better.

06:55 And as a result, it's OK, we drew.

06:57 But 95 minutes, which team were better against Crystal Palace and Chelsea?

07:00 We were better.

07:02 And the games we won, we were better? Yeah, we were better.

07:05 So this is my point.

07:07 We're going to win the Premier League, I don't know.

07:11 I've said many times, in the next 10 years,

07:12 we're going to win the Premier League, Man City?

07:14 No, it's not going to happen.

07:16 But still, we are there, and this is where we continue.

07:19 So we were not satisfied with the result,

07:22 but it's part of the game, because we don't play alone.

07:25 The opponents always play.

07:26 And why you don't give credit to Chelsea,

07:28 what they have done in the first half?

07:30 When they link, they attack from outside, make a counter-attack.

07:34 In the second half, the chances they had, offside all of them.

07:37 Offside all of them.

07:38 But the referees today, they allowed to play, but it was offside.

07:42 So we played good, we had a lot of chances,

07:44 a lot more in the second than the first,

07:46 but the first two were on us,

07:49 and a clear one from Julian and Erling.

07:52 And this has to continue, to improve, to improve,

07:54 be focused and be on the title race.

07:58 Okay, so the embargo for 10 days this evening.

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