Guardiola on Arsenal challenge and Rico Lewis development (Full Presser part two)

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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola on the challenge of facing Arsenal and the development of Rico Lewis

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00:00I can play in every position so so smart I said many times the players when you

00:19ask to any player what is your position no I play holding midfielder no I play

00:22winger no I play that Rico play football if you put in one position he knows

00:28exactly what he has to do it's so intelligent so and you know it's playing

00:34because he's playing really good so the game against Inter again against Chelsea

00:37when we play so all the games have played so far always have been really

00:43really really good so that's why I think honestly he deserved the minutes that

00:47he's he has yeah I would like to have a true you know a little bit taller that

01:02his mom and dad don't give him this attribute but yeah he's solving for

01:08another aspects he always wants a ball he's so intelligent defensively it's

01:14aggressive one against one and yeah he played one of the best wingers in the

01:20in the league in Europe and always has playing 11 of course for the condition

01:24physical could play more in the central positions in midfield players you know

01:28for his dynamic intelligence in arriving the final third for many things but you

01:34know defensively always it's a it's a really really good defender

01:52well all the time we're so pragmatic as a team look the results the people

01:59have a build-up a lot of passes or maybe no good long balls or transition

02:04we are not pragmatic. Pragmatic? We are the best team in the world being pragmatic

02:09with the numbers we want a lot no because at the end be pragmatic what

02:14does it mean related in results right not in how beautiful football and this

02:19kind of stuff I don't believe in that I believe in being pragmatic and we

02:23believe in the way we play we are unbelievably pragmatic the best I would

02:28say I'm sorry there is the truth

02:49maybe maybe all right maybe it's not going to happen on Sunday but you're

02:52right the game against Inter sometimes in the previous season to create crazy

02:56to score a score a score at the end the chances we have in the last minute we

02:59were solid quite solid so Inter Milan I faced a team like never faced in

03:05many many years like being so so deep we were able to make a transition we were

03:10so deep it's difficult to make a transition we were so deep it's

03:14impossible for a long ball to run 40 meters this is not counter-attack had to

03:18be a previous passes a previous dribblings when they are there and you

03:21are present transitioning to second to second they were Barrella, Chanaloglou

03:26and to have the ball make tac-tac dribble dribble and after they run I

03:29never seen a team like that and make us suffer being good we were good and

03:35would set to avoid these transitions but they were able that's why sometimes I

03:39say when this happened give me credit to enter the Milan not because we were

03:43wrong and you're right when sometimes when we were there we came crazy we lose

03:47the control transition and lose 0-1 or 0-2 the games against I would say

03:51against Leicester what happened 2-6 or 1-6 I don't remember or 2-5 and

03:56now what was in the early moments of the season and the thing was in the maybe

04:01United I don't know which game you are thinking about it but normally when

04:05arriving January February I think we will know what playing for sometimes it

04:09kind of happened in the beginning of the season still come from the holidays come

04:13from still we are sometimes being naive but yes so this kind of games so

04:20respecting goals against Inter was much much higher than them so of course they

04:24have a good transition but more what the quality they have still I'm concerned

04:28how we can do better create more chances when teams defend so so deep this is

04:33always my dream my target so they've been eight nine players in the ATR box

04:37okay how we had to do it how way to find a little spaces to do it and with the

04:43transitions because we the biggest space everyone have the spaces because spaces

04:47there and likes and this everyone can do it but when defend so deep because we

04:53are good in the build-up and defend away or because the opponents defend for

04:56example like Madrid last season Inter the Milan the way you know if we arrive

05:00in the final against Madrid and we're not able to a penalty we were not good

05:05enough to attack against that team so deep against Inter not good enough to

05:09create more and this is we are looking for and I think on Sunday in some

05:14moments it's going to happen how good we can be that's why I was in football

05:18you have a chance to get better to get better to do better you know and I like

05:22Inter to get better from Arsenal and Arsenal we get better for Newcastle or

05:27what for Newcastle because this is what football provide us always you can do

05:33better and that's why I say we are here you know a part of the title we are here

05:37because always we can do better better

05:44Have you ever set a team up to go and get a 0-0 draw in a big game and instructed your players look 0-0 is a good result?

05:54sometimes yeah when you play shit sometimes it's a good result when the

06:00opponent is better sometimes it's a good result but I think there are a few

06:04managers in the top level six seven that they go to the game thinking go for 0-0

06:10you know it doesn't mean to win deep or long balls or being here you're going to

06:15play for 0-0 never ever I don't think Mikkel knows that I'm not going to play

06:20for 0-0 I know he's not going to play for 0-0 but sometimes they defend it

06:24because you are better and sometimes you create a lot of considerate of chances

06:28because they are better and it's not much complicated and that accepted you

06:32know it's a good way to as a club as a team grow up that most for example the

06:38people say we're going to play a game no and have been a disaster have been no

06:44we are not a disaster this day at 4 p.m. start the game in 90 minutes the

06:49opening was better in that game that means we are bad that means if we win

06:55Arsenal is bad is in that game we were better and happen sometimes it's sun

07:00sometimes rain it's not a big issue during the season you can it was a bad

07:05season it was a bad but the performance say some people eyes are disgrace it is

07:11a disaster is unacceptable no during 90 minutes one but that's a little better

07:17but I would say I'm sorry to be sometimes everyone I want to defend my

07:22club especially in these modern days like everyone is expecting to be not

07:27relegated to be disappear of the earth the face of the earth you know in the

07:31world so I would say that we have better afternoons and the opponents you

07:38know we have better better days better days and the other that's why we know a

07:42lot it's not much complicated to understand

08:02the opponent's know a still weather I love the way we run in the pressing

08:08against inter inter very unbelievable in the in the build-up with pastor in the

08:14summer some is a quality player with the feet like our keepers have an

08:18unbelievably quality it's difficult to press with that and we were so awful so

08:23good and after what they link with the to Ram and Taremi and after Lautaro how

08:28difficult is when that bolts and ruin and Manu they were that unbelievably

08:32aggressive and still I see the team I said that guys they surprised me I'm

08:37feel amazed you know how they still after many years they do what still

08:42they're doing in every single memen have a single game and and and after you have

08:4725 20 30 minutes like a brain for destroyers and 70 possession it was

08:52maybe 0 2 0 3 3 the chances they had to 0-3 but after no but 25 30 minutes but

09:01you can have 30 bad minutes right you have to make a good rest of the minutes

09:05I will how was really brilliant and against Renfrew so it's happened so

09:10that's why I'm so optimistic I'm so pleased with the thing I saw against

09:14inter in just seeing the game after and you're right after in press conference

09:20press conference after the game sometimes you are confused for the

09:23motions for the what happens sometimes I have make a an analysis for the game

09:29sometimes I'm wrong but I don't have that feeling in that moment I don't have

10:0395 minutes a defender have to the opponent have to defend in their box

10:07this is what I want do you know why because the ball is far far far away

10:11from Edison and Stefan and it's got it for our keeper when the ball is closer

10:16to my goal now I'm trembling and they can see the contrast again yeah it can

10:20happen but I prefer when the ball is there for me that is being to be in in

10:25terms of pragmatic so but I would believe I said many times from nine

10:29years here all together so I would believe to be in setbacks for a long

10:33long long time long long time that there and after make one transition score a

10:37goal I swear to God I would do it I would do it I want to win desperately

10:41desperately I live better and everybody's happier and everything is

10:45much much better I completely believe it when I defend deeper deeper in it

10:49because Lombos with Havertz we don't win and they attack quick we have to defend deep

10:55what can I say because he's taller the ball for right is better they win the

11:00second balls they go to good for the second both have to defend it but you

11:03have to I don't want it but we have to so the uncomfortable things you have to

11:08do it but so when the people say now Pepe just talk about how beautiful and

11:13I don't know no not even in my periods in Barcelona not at all so so I can talk

11:19that have been pragmatic isn't managing better and pragmatic than me I'm sorry

11:21we want more we want more being in that way so how should I change so it's

11:27difficult for me to change it because the results are there for the money yeah

11:31of course yeah for many things yeah of course but the results are there so

11:35that's why we are continue to do it and try to this idea get getting better so

11:42always we can do better even in that way you know knowing that the opponents

11:46count so if you let them Arsenal you let them play you are said that they make a

11:51build-up they allow time to come or Timber or Alex or whatever the player

11:55there to make a structure in the middle how moves good in the pockets you are

11:59with pressing long balls they win the second balls they drop you in the final

12:03third they have the ability to play thousand million passes and find the

12:06pockets and find the right space if they can run they can run Martinelli Saka

12:09Odegaard and whatever so they are top team because all the departments and the

12:14team have to be solid they do it they do it they are good in that but in the same

12:19time we're good too so how to try to our strength you know do it and avoid

12:26the and create the weaknesses of the opener

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