I expect a tight game with Arsenal - Guardiola - video Dailymotion

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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola expects future games with Arsenal to be tight, including Sunday's Premier League clash Etihad Training Campus, Manchester, UK

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00:00In recent years, we've seen quite a lot of high-scoring games between the teams at the top of the table.

00:05Last year, you announced it was 1-0 and 0-0.

00:09Do you think that's maybe the way things are going to go more?

00:13Or are you expecting something similar?

00:15Similar.

00:17And is that, do you feel, a trend in football back towards those top games being really, really tight?

00:23To score goals, you're going to score from many different aspects.

00:29In the set-piece, it's not easy because they are so tall, taller than us.

00:32In the transitions, her backwards are quicker than our transitions, offensive.

00:38And when we are able to set them back, and they are so strong defensively,

00:42they accumulate a lot of players that the modern football, the strikers forget about it.

00:47To go to the strikers, they go to the holding midfielders.

00:50So the gap between the spaces, we saw against Inter.

00:53So they defend the space.

00:55They have incredible defensively with the runners in the channels inside,

01:00being defensive with the people in the middle.

01:03So Saliba and Gabriel, they are incredibly focused with just hurling all the time.

01:08So it's not one against one, it's always two against one, sometimes three against one.

01:14So that's why it's difficult to attack them.

01:16I think in 24, they didn't lose away.

01:19I think they drew just one game against us, and they won it.

01:23So it's not just one game or two games.

01:27There are many games, they are solid, consistent in that.

01:30They don't concede goals, and the opponents don't create much options with that.

01:34So that's why you have to try to read well the way we have to do it.

01:37And at the same time, I'm looking forward to playing the game.

01:43And in every game, it's a chance to get better or play better,

01:46or do it better than the game before.

01:48And as much as you play with the opponent, they are consistent in doing similar things.

01:52Always you have a chance to improve some aspects.

01:55So it's a chance for us.

01:57We play at home, and hopefully we can do a good performance.

I expect a tight game with Arsenal - Guardiola

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