Guardiola on Leicester trip and finding solutions to City's crippling injury crisis

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Guardiola on Leicester trip and finding solutions to City's crippling injury crisis  shot 26/12 embargoed until 28/12/2024  Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK

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00:00More questions, then we'll go to 1.30 on the 28th, Phil, please.

00:06Yeah, Saturday afternoon, please, Phil.

00:11As a manager, how tough is it to find a way of turning things around,

00:16whether the team's playing good, bad or indifferent?

00:18If results aren't coming, do you have to keep doing the same thing in training

00:22until it does, or do you have to be more innovative

00:25and find a way to inspire them to turn them around?

00:30Yeah, we try it. We try it.

00:32How tough is it to keep finding new ways, though?

00:34Yeah, keep going.

00:36Sometimes your spec will be earlier or easier to fix it,

00:40but sometimes you take more time and I will not give up.

00:44I will.

00:46I want to be, I want to be, I want to do it,

00:49and with the situations that we have, we have to do it.

00:52And now we go to Leicester, which has been difficult to try to

00:56do a good game against results, and the players will be ready, we will do it.

01:00And as a manager who's been successful everywhere you've been,

01:05and this is obviously the longest run, does this...

01:09make you even more determined to get it right, to say,

01:13right, first long-term bad run I've had, I'll show you I can come through.

01:17I've shown you I can do with the big, create the good times.

01:20I'll show you I can get through the bad times as a manager.

01:23Yeah, of course I want it. Everybody wants it.

01:26Yeah, I feel, you know, I don't want to disappoint my people.

01:29In terms of the club, in terms of the fans or the people who love this club.

01:36But...

01:38we'll send the results, nothing to say.

01:41I said the last week, every time, I'm saying about how you performed today

01:46in many moments that, yeah, it was really, really good,

01:50knowing the quality of the opponent.

01:51Just for you personally, does that give you a greater determination

01:54to please the people, to bring back...

01:56But even just now, since I arrived in my career as a football player,

02:00as a manager, I think every one of us in our job want to please the people,

02:04want to do good our job.

02:05That is undeniable, that is not a question mark, I would say.

02:09So it's easy to understand.

02:12But here...

02:13It's a great test when things are going badly.

02:15The great test I have done.

02:17We will come back, that's what already happened.

02:20But that makes me remember how good was the past.

02:22That's the truth.

02:24That makes me realise now what we have done.

02:28Because sometimes you have injuries,

02:29and how many years we were incredibly, incredibly consistent.

02:33You know?

02:34But, yeah, we were a little bit down.

02:38We didn't expect much.

02:39And the main, main reason is, like Jack said,

02:41having seven, eight important injured players.

02:45And after every three days, it's more difficult.

02:47But I see the team, the spirit, how yesterday's training,

02:50how focused they are in all we try to practise,

02:52how to try to do it.

02:54And we saw today the game, we saw it.

02:57But, unfortunately, we could not get the result that we wanted.

03:02Arjen, in your first season, you lost 4-2 at Leicester,

03:06it was a game where they scored three goals really early.

03:08That seemed like a really low moment in your city reign.

03:11Now, obviously, there's lots and lots of trophies won since,

03:14but how does the confidence and just everything around the team now,

03:19in this run, compare to that team eight years ago,

03:23who went to Leicester and lost that game quite badly?

03:28I'll compare one situation that eight, nine years ago.

03:32I don't know if it's fair or not,

03:34but I don't have a related one than the other one.

03:39That season was the first year when, more or less, the squad was there.

03:43I don't know in which month it was.

03:45It was a low point, right?

03:48But, yeah, after we built what we built,

03:50I don't see similarities, to be honest.

03:55I don't see it.

03:56Last one with Jamie, please, guys.

03:59Hi Pep, hello, hello.

04:01Just on Erling Haaland, he's obviously a phenomenal, amazing player,

04:04all the rest of it.

04:05So with regard to the penalty miss,

04:06will you talk to him about it,

04:07or does he not need to be spoken to because he's so good?

04:10I congratulate the team, I said it again.

04:12He was a well-played guy,

04:14so the only chance that we have is to continue to more recovery,

04:19prepare well for the trip to Leicester, play the game, New Year's Eve.

04:23We have days to do that.

04:27That's why it's like the United game was the moment

04:30when we can change the dynamic.

04:31Today, they changed the dynamic.

04:33Unfortunately, we could not do it for many reasons.

04:36United were given away.

04:38Today, we were close again.

04:40But, yeah, I don't have for my education to say,

04:47start to complain, start to point people,

04:50it's time to...

04:53It's happened, it's life, it's football,

04:55try it again, try it again.

04:57That's why we had success, because it was always not enough.

05:00We try it again and again and again.

05:02And that's why we won a lot of titles,

05:04and every three days, game, game, game,

05:06we win, win, win for many, many months, many, many years.

05:09Because again and again, and I had to do the same.

05:11And the results are not good.

05:13Yeah, because you seem very calm throughout this whole run.

05:17Is that easy for you, or is it just something that

05:20you're having to force yourself to be calm before us, before your team?

05:22You seem very, still very much in control.

05:24Is that easy?

05:28It's what it is.

05:29I prefer I don't leave that situation, but it's what it is.

05:32I think it's trying to be as much calm as possible,

05:36to try to read what is the situation.

05:39The situation, the results, it's obvious,

05:40but what can you do to next game to do it better with the players,

05:43come back and the players, you know, start in that position.

05:47This is what we want to try, we want to do.

05:51It's all I want to do.

05:52Thank you, guys.

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