Guardiola on Haaland double and quality of Brentford

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Guardiola on Haaland double and quality of Brentford  14/09/2024  Etihad stadium, Manchester, UK

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00:00Evening, guys. We've got mics on either side, if we take a show of hands and we'll set an embargo for Swall TN for 10.30 on Sunday evening.

00:17We'll start with James, please.

00:20It's obviously been a really difficult week for Erling to produce a performance like that.

00:27Can you just talk about his performance, what he's been through?

00:30And was it just this morning that he said he was fine to start?

00:35No, yesterday.

00:36Yesterday he said I'm up and he knew it.

00:39Of course, I've been tough on a close family, by the way, at that age.

00:44It's difficult for every human being.

00:47But the other day he came back, he was a little bit down.

00:51But, you know, locker room.

00:53And we try to take care of everyone here.

00:56So we take care of each other.

00:59So when someone has a problem, you have to be close to them.

01:02And yesterday was much better.

01:04His mood was, you know, making jokes, it was better.

01:09And the best way, you know, sometimes to forget things is to do your job.

01:13And he's been doing it for many years perfectly.

01:18And just on the goals, not the best first half an hour or so,

01:23but when you've got a player like that, he just wins games for you.

01:28Yeah, right.

01:29So the first time, I don't remember, eight, nine years,

01:33the team playing the way they played Bremford, the first 20, 30 minutes.

01:38And I give credit to them.

01:40It's not our best.

01:41It's not easy to handle.

01:42Not even one minute, concede a goal.

01:44And these kind of things, it's not easy to handle it.

01:47But they were maybe 0-2.

01:50So 0-3, I don't know.

01:52Every time had the ball, created a chance.

01:55I don't remember a team creating this kind of situation.

01:58Long balls, winning duels.

02:00Short passes, they break the lines.

02:03Quick in the transitions.

02:04Strong in every corner, every single piece.

02:06So it's an extraordinary team.

02:08We suffered since they were promoted in the Premier League.

02:14All the games against Bremford from Thomas have been like that.

02:17So I don't remember an easy game.

02:19Maybe last season there when Phil scored a hat-trick.

02:22But the rest have been so tight.

02:24And always like it because they are really good, not because we were bad.

02:28Sometimes you have to understand the opponents are really good, and they are.

02:31But the second half, we were lucky with the 2-1 up.

02:35So the second half was our best.

02:37And we created a lot of chances.

02:39And we could score more.

02:42James?

02:43Hi Pep.

02:44How would you describe the sport this season?

02:47Is this the best you've been since the start of football?

02:50You've been great anyway.

02:51This season, compared to other years, is it the best ever?

02:55It's really, really good, yeah.

02:58Yeah, I would say it's the best, yeah.

03:01But it's just for features and not too many games.

03:05I always see the table after 10 features, 10, 12.

03:08So I don't pay any attention after 3 or 4.

03:12It's better to have 12 points than not have it, that's for sure.

03:15But many things are going to happen.

03:17And today new players came in for the rhythm.

03:20Gondogan didn't make it this season.

03:22And Kyle in the first game, and John and everything.

03:25So it's important because we need everyone.

03:27Otherwise it's impossible to sustain it.

03:31And especially, it's so productive for us to win these types of games.

03:36Winning it, of course, is important, but in that way.

03:38The players, sometimes I cannot warn them.

03:41Oh, be careful, be careful.

03:42Now they felt it.

03:43They felt it.

03:44From the first minute until the end.

03:46Even the staff said, oh my God, how we suffered today.

03:49And this is what it is.

03:51That's why it's so difficult to win the Premier League.

03:54Because look at the results this weekend.

03:56So it's very tight, the opponents are really good.

03:59All the keepers are really good.

04:00They make good build-ups.

04:02You know, look.

04:03Flecker is amazing with the balls.

04:06He at the end, Manfrey, inside with Bebo,

04:09Bebo, Dado Carvalho at the end.

04:12So, with Dumpstack, with Wieser, so fast.

04:15And they are an exceptional team.

04:18So that's why I give a lot, a lot of credit to our victory today.

04:21How much mental strength do you need to have this stuff going on,

04:28this sadness, things that affect your life?

04:31Go on a football pitch and almost...

04:34I don't know.

04:35That's it?

04:36I don't know.

04:37Play and do better?

04:38You have to ask him, I don't know, I didn't ask him.

04:40It has to be strength, of course.

04:42And maybe for 90 minutes forget when you play,

04:45forget your personal life, the punch in your face,

04:48the life give it to you.

04:49So it's good, you know, playing.

04:51I didn't speak, of course, we were in touch.

04:54How does he feel?

04:55But I didn't even ask him.

04:57So, are you ready to play or whatever?

04:59So, I said, okay, he's going to play.

05:01If he's not ready, he will come to me to say, Pep, I'm not ready.

05:04He didn't say that to me.

05:06And for us, he's an incredible weapon, you know.

05:08A team is like one against one.

05:11When you isolate him with a central defender with a quality

05:14that you have with Ederson and Stefan for the long balls

05:18and low passes.

05:19So it's a weapon that, you know, we have to explode,

05:23we have to use it.

05:25And the best way is 93 minutes, 92 minutes,

05:28you know, forget and just, you know, just play.

05:34He talks about how you struggled against Brentford.

05:36What is it that they do that makes life so hard for you?

05:39I have a huge list to tell you.

05:41A huge list.

05:43They are good in high pressing.

05:45They are good in the long balls, second balls.

05:48They defend deep so compact, allow them to go outside

05:51and no spaces inside.

05:53The transitions with Wissa and Tony and Bebo,

05:57so they are really, really good.

05:59This season, even, when they make high pressing,

06:03the last season of high pressing was long ball to Tony.

06:05This season, no.

06:06This season, they play short passes, they break,

06:08move inside, outside, not today so quick.

06:12Set pieces.

06:13Every corner is a headache.

06:15Every throwing in the final 30 is a headache.

06:18Every free kick.

06:20Because they are, every department,

06:22all the things they do, they need a manager behind.

06:26A manager.

06:28Sometimes you see a team that said,

06:30it's more whatever happened.

06:32What they do is always sense.

06:34He's one of the best.

06:36Thomas is one of the best.

06:38Are you surprised that the European club has a contact

06:42that you still haven't read?

06:44Question of time.

06:46He will get it.

06:49They will get a good manager when this is going to happen.

06:53I'm good in a few things.

06:55I can read which manager is good.

06:57I know which one is good.

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