Lopetegui on Manchester City 4-1 west ham

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Lopetegui on Manchester City 4-1 west ham  04/01/2025  Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK

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00:00We were unfortunate in that game in that you had two really good chances before

00:05Manchester City scored and then you had a very unlucky decision go against you

00:10when Somerville would have been cleaned through without a free-kick being conceded

00:14and that might have been an equaliser.

00:17Yes, I think that it's not easy today to explain the match for me because I think

00:21that it has been a very strange in this because we deserved more in my

00:25opinion. It's not easy to say that when you lost 4-1

00:28but it's true that it happened out of little detail that they work against us

00:32not only that we don't take advantage of our

00:35clear situation, two chances but very clear, three or four more clear

00:40situations when we can and we have to do better to find our finishing points

00:45and after they scored one goal and when we were very very very unlucky

00:49it was one rebound, it was not one chance, one rebound

00:53and sometimes they don't happen at all these things and after it's true that

00:57we have a very clear situation when Cri, Somerville

01:00regained the ball to Akanji, it was not fault

01:05but the referee said fault and it was a very unlucky situation and unfair

01:11situation for us too. There are a lot of little details that

01:15all of them I think that they can explain why

01:19in the end the score has been like this but it's true that despite this

01:22despite we did very good things and positive things

01:26it was not enough because you don't take advantage when you are better than

01:30the opponent and you overcome one thing has city in a way in the end

01:34you know that normally you are going to lose

01:37because they have a very very high quality players and

01:41it's happening so maybe in the moment we suffer the first goal

01:45we can we can and we have to do better before the half

01:48to arrive one nil in one nil we are in the match and to avoid

01:52the second and third counter attack maybe this little detail because in the

01:56second half they scored two goals too but

01:58they don't dominate us we were playing all the all the second half in the

02:02in the opposite half but in that's why for me it's not easy to explain today

02:07the 4-1

02:16Hi Julien, it's nine goals conceded in the last two games just

02:21how concerned are you about the number of goals you can see in a minute

02:24yeah i know i'm not thinking about the number about the before match i'm

02:28thinking about the match of today has been very different matches in my

02:31opinion very very different and today i'm trying to explain what

02:36happened today in terms of Tadejbo um what was the

02:40nature of his injury

02:44we don't know exactly we have to assess him tomorrow

02:47but it was not i am not very optimist with him we suffered the the injury

02:54gesture with Emerson too in the last training session that's why he didn't

02:58play he was not he was not here we we lost Jarbo and for a lot of times

03:05Antonio so okay in one moment one maybe to say positive things is the answer

03:12that the team did as a team today in in the

03:15different moments on the against one very difficult and tough

03:20opponent we had to keep we had to keep the positive things

03:23to be optimistic to be able to to look forward

03:27and keeping the good things and understanding

03:31that the only thing that we can and we have to do is to look forward and to

03:34improve and to be better and better in terms of

03:38the positive things Nicholas Fulcrook scored again how

03:42encouraged have you been by his start no i think that always is good that

03:46you strike a score but despite this goal i think that he did he did

03:51well in a lot of moments for the team he worked hard he allowed

03:54us to play through him and and was i think a very

03:59consistent performance for him so step by step he's

04:03better and he's good he's good new for us but not only

04:09him i think that today they did very really well

04:14that's why i have to review the match again but it's not easy for me to

04:17explain today the score for 4-1 was not easy

04:21just again on Nicholas Fulcrook he said that he allowed you to play through him

04:26he said that you allowed him to play through him do you think he was good in

04:29the air with his sort of flick-ons to other players

04:31obviously he scored the goal but it felt like he was involved in

04:35holding on to the ball and playing other attackers in as well

04:41no i think that Fulcrook is one striker that allows you to play

04:46sometimes through him in the aerial play but

04:50but he knows to play in the floor too so i think that

04:54he did well but not only with the ball with a ball

04:58against City you have to do very well in the first half that's why

05:02i have a frustration because they have one moment when one knee is true that we

05:08we were more disordered in the 30 minutes when they have two chances to

05:12score is true but despite this moment i think that

05:15they didn't have they didn't overcome us that's why it's a

05:19frustrated day for us but it happened and we have to learn

05:23and to look forward Pep Guardiola said that he didn't think

05:26that his team played particularly well today would you agree

05:29with that

05:33no i i this is you have to ask Guardiola i don't ask about

05:37they play well or not i can't say if i we play well or not

05:41i i talk about my team

05:49hello can you please say something about the subject captaincy was it you will

05:52pick him or was it a team

05:56no he has been captain today because Jared is not

06:01was not and he's in the second captain or third captain with Creswell so

06:06today he has been a captain i think he deserves he's one

06:11one very good professional a good player so

06:15i think that is a good thing for him too okay thank you thanks everyone

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