24-25 Premier League Preview - Matchday 5 - video Dailymotion

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Hear from the managers ahead of week 5 of the 24-25 Premier League season including Mikel Arteta and Pep Guardiola ahead of Arsenal's trip to Manchester City Various Locations, UK

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00:00Every season he's stronger, yeah, deeper squad and add more and more players and top

00:14quality, yeah. Every season he's even better and even better. Always I have a highly opinion

00:20about him, his team. Everybody knows that he grew up as a team year by year, so there's

00:26no doubt about that. Both years have been close, but we have been so strong as well

00:33and still we are strong and looking forward for the game.

00:37We want to be at the level that we want to be. We have to be really good on the road

00:41and at home. There's no other choice. So we have to continue to be that consistent, get

00:48the results, especially get the performances that are going to get us the results. This

00:52team has always reacted that way. The fact that obviously we weren't satisfied and we

00:56wanted more and we knew that we could be there and we have the level and we lost a few things

01:03on the way that didn't allow us to be there. That has to be in the tummy. A new season,

01:10new opportunity and that's the beautiful thing about sports.

01:13This started off quite well with a win against our neighbours that caught the eye the most

01:19of course, because they were 2-0 down so late in the game. Iriota has done a tremendous

01:24job over there, plays nice football to watch, develops players, has a nice playing style.

01:33All credits for him, but hopefully we can manage to do better against Bournemouth tomorrow

01:39than we did against Nottingham Forest last week.

01:41It's always tough there, it's always aggressive there, but we know also the circumstances

01:46and you can't compare this. We didn't have a fit squad, we had even one or two players

01:54that were maybe up to 20% to play, but we had to play them. This time it's totally different.

02:00We have now a fit squad, we have definitely 18 players who are capable to go into this

02:09good challenge for us.

02:10Last week against City I thought they played really well, took the game to City. It's always

02:16a challenge, but that's the Premier League. I don't think there's any games you go into

02:19thinking they're going to be any easier than any others. We have to be ready for Brentford

02:25tomorrow, but we are at home and we've got to make sure we continue with our strong performances

02:31in the league, but turn those performances into results.

02:35I think this is a good squad, but I also said that if in the last two years we finish 12th

02:40and we finish 6th, to improve is not something automatic. I think the squad is good, but

02:48the only way to reach some important target, like top four, is just to try to be focused

02:54on game after game, otherwise if you think about April, May, it's too far.

02:59Every part of the Premier League season is critical. You don't design to get off not

03:04to a good start. Trust me, no manager does, no team does, no player does. We wanted to

03:08get off to a better start than we've got off to, but we haven't, so therefore we've got

03:13to find different ways of operating, five different ways of producing to go and win

03:18performances. Like I say, you can always take a lucky one, you don't want to build on it,

03:22but you take one.

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