Guardiola lauds legend Phil Foden as City comeback to beat Utd 3-1

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00:00 (chairs clattering)

00:03 - Evening guys, just take a show of hands

00:16 to keep some sort of control over it.

00:18 Start with Simon, please.

00:19 - It's a long time ago now,

00:23 but the people who questioned Phil Foden

00:26 and whether he developed,

00:28 do you think he will eventually become

00:32 one of the best players in the Premier League,

00:34 or is he already?

00:36 - He is right now, this season, yeah.

00:40 He's been the best so far.

00:41 - Are you surprised at how many goals he's scored?

00:46 - Always had the feeling to score goals.

00:49 In the training sessions, always had the feeling.

00:51 By now he's winning games,

00:53 so to become a world-class player at the age,

00:55 you have to win games.

00:57 And always play good, always having trouble,

00:59 work ethic, doesn't matter position, no complain.

01:03 He lives to play football, but now he's winning games.

01:05 He played at First Nine in Bournemouth,

01:08 it was unbelievable today.

01:09 After he missed the first chance against Nenna,

01:14 he became a little bit anxious,

01:16 and that is for the age, he will learn that,

01:19 but rush for a score, an unbelievable goal,

01:22 and Phil scored an unbelievable goal too.

01:26 - Mike.

01:27 - Pep, when Erling missed his chance in the first half,

01:31 you looked like you couldn't believe it,

01:34 your reaction to that, but also,

01:36 he's obviously the type of player that carries on

01:38 and puts that out of his head once he's on the bench.

01:43 - Even him is disappointed, I'm disappointed.

01:46 I wanna score four or five goals every game,

01:47 like I was in Luton, but I don't care.

01:49 He can miss this one, the reaction,

01:51 be sad 10 seconds,

01:55 he can miss five more, 10 seconds in his mind,

02:00 and after that, I raise it, on to next.

02:03 The great, great players I met,

02:06 and I was fortunate as a football player,

02:08 and special manager, to handle some of them,

02:10 they have this incredible ability,

02:12 to forget in an instant, it's painful, yeah, has to be.

02:18 I have to forget it as quick as possible.

02:23 Tennis players, the golf players, the basketball players,

02:26 when they miss, everyone misses, he misses,

02:30 okay, smile, positive, go for the next.

02:35 And that defined the great players, and he did it.

02:38 - Just a silent behind your boys, Mike.

02:41 - Hi Pep, there's now 21 points this season

02:44 you've got from losing positions.

02:47 What does that say about the team?

02:52 - I don't know, maybe for the mentality of the players,

02:54 I'm pretty sure, and for what we won in the past,

02:58 that give us the confidence that we can do

02:59 whatever we want.

03:01 No, we won, but we are thinking about it.

03:03 In this kind of game, the only problem we have

03:07 is losing one city, you lose your composer,

03:09 and lose what you have to do.

03:11 What happened, you lose 0-3.

03:13 Because United leave for that,

03:15 for the transition with Garnaccio, Rushford,

03:17 set pieces, and they are really, really good in that.

03:20 And we managed well, and of course the first minute,

03:25 the second half was not our best,

03:27 but normal after half-time.

03:29 And feel a score one goal,

03:32 and our people the second and the third.

03:34 So the mood and the environment help us

03:37 to score the next two.

03:38 - James.

03:39 - Pep, obviously it's a very, very difficult place

03:43 to come here for almost any opponent,

03:46 but obviously you see some of the less big teams

03:48 defending very deep with so many men behind the ball.

03:51 Is it quite a shock to you and a compliment

03:54 at the same time when you see...

03:55 - No.

03:56 - No?

03:57 - Because they can't.

03:58 We were doing well.

04:00 Not because they don't want it, they want it.

04:02 So Nanna play with Barhain to make the first build-up,

04:09 and they cannot do it with our brace.

04:12 All the teams do it that, but they could today.

04:15 They could not, but they try it, I'm pretty sure of that.

04:18 - Yeah, and can I just ask, a lot of the City fans

04:20 were getting very upset and aggrieved

04:24 at the perceived time wasting from Nanna.

04:26 There was a lot of jeering and booing.

04:28 Was that a frustration for you,

04:30 or do you just accept it that that's what City will face?

04:33 - I don't know, it was injured or niggles or whatever,

04:37 so I don't know.

04:38 So this is a referee to do this type of decision, so.

04:41 It's what it is.

04:45 Always there is a rule, like there is a team.

04:47 We can define many things as a team,

04:49 but we are a team that always want a proposal for the day,

04:52 we want to go to play, to play, to play, to play.

04:55 And there are teams that waste time, waste time, waste time,

04:57 and when we are in Man-Touch we give them extra time,

05:00 six, seven, eight minutes, when they don't want to play,

05:02 and after it's against us.

05:03 So this rule, still I don't understand it,

05:06 but anyway, it's always the rule, it's the rule.

05:08 And you have to accept it.

05:10 But honestly, will Donnanna happen, I don't know.

05:13 - Jamie.

05:15 - Hi Pep, the game at Liverpool, or against Liverpool,

05:18 is that a title to decide, or do you see this title race

05:21 going into May, until the end?

05:23 - We have Copenhagen, not today, tomorrow in my mind

05:25 we'll have time after Copenhagen to talk about Liverpool.

05:30 - How do you see the title race?

05:32 - Have a lot of points still to play,

05:34 and different places to go, this is my feeling.

05:36 Still, Arsenal here, Aston Villa, and many places,

05:40 for I think all three or four contenders to win the Premier League,

05:43 but Copenhagen first, it's Champions League,

05:47 I know it's 1-3, good result, but we won in Leipzig 1-3 in group stage,

05:51 and in ten minutes we were 0-2.

05:54 And a potential red card, or whatever, it's complicated.

05:57 We have to be careful, and now in my mind today,

05:59 no Copenhagen, but tomorrow morning it's just Copenhagen,

06:02 and after Wednesday night, I will think about Liverpool.

06:07 - James.

06:08 - Hi Pep, we've heard recently about the talk of knocking City

06:13 off their perch, was this a reality check for that kind of talk?

06:16 - I would not...

06:20 What I'm really proud of is still, after what happened

06:25 I've said many times in the past,

06:26 still being able to perform with this desire,

06:29 with this, you see the three or four actions,

06:32 from the field coming back to win the balls,

06:34 and recover when he's a winning player,

06:38 and this is the mentality, still we have it,

06:41 it didn't surprise me, because we always have the tendency to drop,

06:46 and we do it today, but we do it in Luton,

06:50 in every single game, and that defines our team.

06:54 What happened tonight I respect a lot, it would not be different,

06:59 but I guess in the press conference I have not one comment about that.

07:07 - Jack.

07:10 - Pep, just going back to Phil,

07:12 are you surprised with the amount of responsibility he's been taking?

07:17 - Yeah, when I arrived he was 70, 80, 90 years old, he had it.

07:22 He lives to play football, the thing is the pressure,

07:24 Phil has to make a conference talking about the last book he read,

07:31 but not about football, he loves it,

07:35 and that's why he never, never went 80, 90, 20 years old,

07:38 he was so young when he started training,

07:40 he proved things, he was aggressive in the goal,

07:43 and I'm not sure, I understand defensively what he had to do,

07:48 before he was not really good, and I understand the games better.

07:54 And the most important thing,

07:57 everybody in this audience and all the fans today,

08:01 when he got the ball close to the box,

08:03 had the feeling that something was going to happen,

08:05 something was going to happen.

08:06 Being effective or ineffective, that is not the question,

08:09 had the feeling that he's aggressive to score.

08:13 That's why he's becoming a really important player for us

08:18 and for the national team from England.

08:20 - Two more guys, one at the back, please.

08:22 - Good evening, Mr Guardiola,

08:23 you described the counter-attacking threats of Marcus Rashford and Alejandro Garnacho,

08:27 how do you as a team protect against counter-attacks?

08:31 - With a lot of space, I don't know.

08:34 Don't lose stupid balls, don't lose in certain positions,

08:40 and have attention, especially with Kyle and Nathan and Ruben,

08:44 who are in that ball.

08:45 So we know that when we're in that ball, attack our back, in that side.

08:50 But Kyle and Nathan, they are so concentrated,

08:52 they have incredible speed, they're winning duels,

08:55 physicality is there.

08:57 To talk today about field, but it had been massively important

09:01 because three or four or five times they could run,

09:04 how well Kyle and the other guys defended.

09:07 - Going back to field, talent has always been there,

09:15 do you notice something different in his mindset,

09:17 the way he approaches the game?

09:20 - He's more mature, when you play a lot of games, more mature,

09:23 but especially he wins games.

09:26 Always he scores goals, because I've always had that feeling.

09:29 Now, score goals and win games.

09:32 When you do this, you reach another level as a player.

09:36 - Perfect, thank you guys.

09:38 - Thank you, good night.

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