Guardiola on City's 3-1 Chelsea win and debutants performances

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Guardiola on City's 3-1 Chelsea win and debutants performances  25/01/2025  Etihad Stadium, manchester, Uk

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00:00Evening, guys, we'll take a show of hands, come to as many of you as possible,

00:10set an embargo towards the end for 10.30 on Sunday evening.

00:13Somewhere to start, please.

00:14Simon.

00:18Pep, congratulations on the win.

00:20Could you just tell us what you were thinking after five minutes,

00:25what you were thinking about Kusanov and what he was like in the dressing room after the game?

00:34Well, what I thought, he's not the best start, right?

00:39He will take a lesson.

00:44So young, come from many years, he's not the best start, of course,

00:47but deal with Jackson, with Cole, with all these incredible players, it's not easy.

00:51And I love the reaction of his mates.

00:55He didn't make one training session with us, he didn't make absolutely anything

01:00because we came from Ipwich town and Paris and I won.

01:03So it was just recovery, recovery, recovery.

01:06And yeah, he will learn.

01:08So he's young, he will learn.

01:09I'm pretty sure.

01:11Take a lesson from that and the reaction for the team.

01:14After that, Cole had the 2-0.

01:16Hopefully it was so generous.

01:18And normally in that situation, Cole is a machine.

01:22And we were lucky that he won the score.

01:23And after, emotionally, we come back.

01:25And we come back, not being, I would say, maybe exceptional,

01:30but we take the ball a lot.

01:33So a lot of passes and we miss a little bit with a high line from Chelsea.

01:38Gundo Okoba or Bernardo, especially Gundo Okoba,

01:41have a little bit more balls to Omar, to Mamuch and Erling,

01:45because the space was there, the space was there behind,

01:48but didn't find him for that reason as well.

01:51So they don't know the movement of Mamuch, not yet.

01:53So question of time.

01:54But of course, the situation that we are, the big 23-1

01:59against Chelsea, and my friend and admirer Enzo.

02:06So it's really, really important for our final on Wednesday

02:09and for the next games, of course, in the Premier League.

02:13Hi, Pep.

02:13It was just yesterday when you were talking about the need to do the process

02:17and, you know, have Palzer use the right passes and not give them away.

02:20But obviously today, especially in the second half,

02:23you just wanted the ball to get forward as quickly as possible.

02:26Can you just explain the difference in approach today?

02:30Like, why was it?

02:31I know it's not new that you play a long ball,

02:34but why is it so different today compared to how you'd normally like it?

02:37Well, most of the time the first half didn't happen.

02:40I think Okoba, Gundo and Bernardo were the ball

02:43and Bernardo was unbelievable, helped us, you know, to roll the process.

02:49But the second half they were more aggressive, they were man-to-man.

02:51And when it's man-to-man, if they jump to the keeper,

02:54you can make a two-against-one with the keeper.

02:57But what doesn't happen, you have to play with Erling.

03:02If you win that ball, it's a chance.

03:04And I think he had one chance in the early second half.

03:10We have to call and have Kevin help us with the ball

03:13and fit to fill and score the third.

03:16If you win that ball, they play also,

03:18we play also man-to-man, they play some balls with Madueke.

03:20And when they win, it's an action of goal.

03:24And most of the teams, they do that.

03:26And today we were brilliant to read that in that situation.

03:31But of course, it was five, ten minutes in the second half

03:33that the game was up and down, up and down.

03:34And with that, we are the worst team.

03:39Because it's simple, Gundo have legs to go that 40 metres,

03:42Bernardo has legs and we don't have it.

03:45And that's why you have to make the ball more and more paused,

03:48maybe it's less attractive, but it works for us.

03:51And in the right moment, punish them.

03:52But except after the second chance from Cole,

03:55I think we had...

03:57Josco had two or three, Mamuc had one, and we had chances.

04:04And, yeah, in terms of control, it was much better than the last games,

04:09and we created more chances than lately.

04:11When you've got a young player who's so obviously struggling so early in his debut,

04:15how do you manage that as a manager?

04:17Did you consider taking him off after five minutes just to get him out of there?

04:22Well, I have to learn Russia, Uzbekistan, to communicate with him.

04:27He doesn't speak fluently, I would say, English.

04:31Listen, in this kind of situation, there's nothing much to say.

04:34They know he makes a mistake, he doesn't know it.

04:38He knows he makes a mistake, he doesn't know it.

04:42Never having this kind of situation...

04:44Well, I did it once, one or two years ago with Phil,

04:48but normally I put him aside and I said,

04:53what can I say, don't do a mistake.

04:55He doesn't want to do it, so we know that.

04:59The reaction from the mates was amazing, the staff,

05:01and especially I make a substitution for two reasons,

05:04mainly for the yellow card, not just for the mistake.

05:07Especially I need John for Wednesday,

05:10because Mahmoud, Kouza and Victor cannot play,

05:14and I need John, and John came for the injury,

05:17and I need to leave with rhythm.

05:18And it was good to play this 35-40 minutes with us,

05:22because the final we have on Wednesday with our people,

05:25of course John is important.

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