[New Audio] Guardiola relieved after City snatch controversial late winner at Wolves.mp4

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Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton, UK.  24/10/24

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00:00How big does that win feel?

00:04Well, it's not the last fixture of the season.

00:07So, but of course it's important winning that way.

00:09We are not used to

00:11match like other teams.

00:12I have the talent.

00:13We are not winning games in the last minutes.

00:15And today what happened, the sense of all the flavor of

00:18winning this way is so nice.

00:20And impact for the players come from the bench and the

00:24patience.

00:25We have to deal that with the teams like defence so deep

00:28and literally 11 players in penalty spot and I said to

00:31the players, please don't judge what the opponents do.

00:34It's belong to us to try to break them.

00:37You play against Tottenham, Tottenham playing different

00:39way.

00:41And it's fine and now Wolves playing away and it's

00:45fine after all. And I feel the feeling that every time

00:48it's getting better knowing that is so difficult because

00:50the spaces don't exist, you know, and that's why it's

00:54difficult.

00:54But that's why we are, we are really pleased with the

00:58victory.

00:59How pleased are you for John Sturns to get the winner?

01:01Did you have any worries that it could have been offside?

01:05Well, the moment the line-up, linesman, you know, rise,

01:11rise the flag, I said, at the first instant, but it's a

01:15corner, can be offside.

01:17And that's a view on the situation, the moment impact,

01:20the moment impact from,

01:22I would say,

01:24from, from John,

01:26Saha is watching perfectly the action.

01:29So it's,

01:31it's well given.

01:33Simon.

01:35Obviously, John had that goal against Arsenal as well.

01:38How important are moments like that to give the team

01:41momentum?

01:43Yeah, of course.

01:43Yeah, you're right.

01:45I forgot Arsenal were winning the last action as well.

01:48Oh, what happened on microphone?

01:50I don't know.

01:50It's lit up guys.

01:51Are you back on now?

01:53Is my problem or?

01:55Now?

01:55Yeah, that's good.

02:00Yeah, it's the second time, it's momentum.

02:02John has this talent.

02:03Yeah, he's a good, good header and, but I'm more big fan,

02:08of course, John, give credit to him, but in the corner,

02:11three kicks belong a lot for the taker.

02:14With delivery, it's not good.

02:16It doesn't matter.

02:17Either John Sturns or not John Sturns.

02:19And the delivery for Phil was magnificent.

02:22So that's why, that's why we did it.

02:25Jack.

02:27How important is it to win these games, particularly today,

02:31a fun game without maybe the team playing quite the best?

02:36Are you just like racking the wins?

02:38I got the feeling, I'm sorry Jack to be disagree with

02:42you, but we played really, really good.

02:45To attack 11, but listen, you cannot press because Sa is

02:48long balls.

02:50We win the duel, it's fine.

02:5111 players to penalty spot.

02:54So breakdown is so difficult.

02:56I would love them when I try to play and go move forward

02:59and whatever.

02:59They use the transitions that Neto last season, Lugo

03:03happened, but Kunye is so fast and long balls with a strike

03:06are always difficult to control them.

03:08And the pace that they have, the physicality for Lemina,

03:10for Joao and from Andre, they're so strong.

03:15And look the ones against Juan Semedo, how aggressive

03:18they were with both wingers at the play.

03:21So they are really, really strong crosses.

03:23Yeah, with Bueno, with Dawson, with Totti, so three players

03:29with Haaland there.

03:30So and two or three players in front of him in two metres

03:33difference.

03:34So the spaces don't exist.

03:37But we were patient, we make a runners, we make a crosses,

03:39we have a lot of chances because of course we don't have

03:41the tallest team to attack crosses.

03:44We have Erling, the tempo from Phil when he plays or the

03:48tempo from Gundo, but no more than that.

03:51So that's why I have the opinion that we make playing

03:53the way they play an excellent, an excellent performance.

03:58You talked about obviously it's difficult to attack a back

04:01five when there's players on the penalty spot.

04:04That's always been the case and you mentioned recently

04:07you started to get a little bit better with that.

04:09Has it been tougher in the last few weeks this season

04:12for some reason?

04:13Because obviously for the last few years you've been able to find that.

04:16No, against Fulham was not, maybe we didn't attack much

04:21better than today, but against Fulham with a lack of energy

04:25to recover the ball, that was not good.

04:28We talk a lot these days about who defines us as a team,

04:32like it doesn't matter what happens, we go to the opponent

04:34and it doesn't matter in which position of the pitcher it is.

04:39And in that terms we were much, much, much better.

04:43But we have to adapt.

04:46So Inter and Milan came and did the same.

04:48So we have to accept it.

04:52So the tippers play four in the back, play against us,

04:54they play five in the back and play there and the whole

04:56team is filmless, no clothes, like a whole hands with the

04:59central defenders.

05:01So what do you need?

05:02Just goal.

05:03Action for winger, good cross, good shoot, in smaller

05:07spaces do it. Without that it's difficult.

05:11Today we were close to draw and at the end we were lucky

05:14to win the game.

05:18Solution is the way we play today.

05:25Yeah, basically stay a lot in the position

05:29that you have to be.

05:30This is really, really important.

05:31Don't become crazy.

05:32Otherwise they make the transitions and after that

05:34they punish you.

05:35We were close with the 2-0.

05:37And be patient and be patient, good action for the wingers

05:40making dribbles and good runners for the people in front

05:44and you have the ability when playing, you have the ball,

05:47dribble in the small spaces, shoot and score a goal.

05:49It's the only way I think.

05:51The other option is, okay, you don't come, I don't come.

05:53We go with Adi and we stay there.

05:55Who decides to come?

05:58That would be so difficult for our spectators.

06:00So imagine Ruben has the ball and say, okay, I don't attack.

06:03Stay there.

06:05What happens?

06:06So I don't know what happens, but it will be a problem.

06:09So, and of course we have to do it and knowing that, okay,

06:13we cannot attack like, okay, attack like in a naive way

06:18because after that the pace that they have, Lucio and Adama

06:20last game against or all the strikers that they have

06:25the pace, so you have to control it.

06:27But the way I believe, because for many years I faced teams

06:30that play in that way, is do what we have done today.

06:33It's the best way.

06:35Michael.

06:36How important is it then in those moments to just reinforce

06:39you've got to stay patient?

06:44Now because we won, it's easy to say, yeah, I had to be

06:46patient. It was a moment that it's inevitable it happened

06:49that when you are 1-1 and you play that you make actions

06:52more, you know, a little bit, I would say not the right

06:58decision and after what happened you defend the decision.

07:00So at the end you have to continue to do it and be the

07:03talent for one player.

07:04Look, Phil went in, came in, you know, Phil arrived there

07:06make three, four runners, incredible passes from Jack

07:10and you know, it's almost, always was almost, almost.

07:12What did we have to do?

07:13Because literally, you know that, you saw it.

07:15It's 11 players inside of the box when we arrived in the

07:17byline, 11 players inside.

07:20It's no space, you know, and after it's yes, free kicks,

07:24corners, individual action like Josco has done again.

07:28So you can break in this kind of way.

07:31But the most important when you are there is try to avoid

07:33as much as possible the runners, the transition for the

07:35opener. You open that good door, better don't play in that

07:38way. It's impossible.

07:39They destroy you for sure, 100%.

07:42So that's why you have to be with the way to avoid to

07:45don't do it.

07:46Last one with Ian, please go ahead.

07:47Pep, I think that's the third time in sort of seven games

07:50you've gone 1-0 down in the opening 10 minutes.

07:53Is that something that concerns you?

07:54Is that just a sort of...

07:55Yeah, I don't, yeah, I understand.

07:57I don't like it, but we started really well.

08:00So we are starting really well.

08:02We were there and I thought first transition make really

08:04good action, good cross and I have to review how we defend

08:07it. But yeah, of course, I don't like it, but I was more

08:10concerned if we should have started as low P or should

08:14have started without the right tone to compete in this

08:16type of games.

08:17And I had the feeling that we didn't have that.

08:20It was completely the opposite and it's football, but that

08:24is mature and I think that it will help us to be better.

08:26So the difficulties always help us to be to be better team.

08:30Thank you guys.

08:31Have a lovely evening.

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