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Guardiola on City's 3-1 Chelsea win and debutants performances
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25/01/2025
Guardiola on City's 3-1 Chelsea win and debutants performances
25/01/2025
Etihad Stadium, manchester, Uk
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00:00
Evening, guys, we'll take a show of hands, come to as many of you as possible,
00:10
set an embargo towards the end for 10.30 on Sunday evening.
00:13
Somewhere to start, please.
00:14
Simon.
00:18
Pep, congratulations on the win.
00:20
Could you just tell us what you were thinking after five minutes,
00:25
what you were thinking about Kusanov and what he was like in the dressing room after the game?
00:34
Well, what I thought, he's not the best start, right?
00:39
He will take a lesson.
00:44
So young, come from many years, he's not the best start, of course,
00:47
but deal with Jackson, with Cole, with all these incredible players, it's not easy.
00:51
And I love the reaction of his mates.
00:55
He didn't make one training session with us, he didn't make absolutely anything
01:00
because we came from Ipwich town and Paris and I won.
01:03
So it was just recovery, recovery, recovery.
01:06
And yeah, he will learn.
01:08
So he's young, he will learn.
01:09
I'm pretty sure.
01:11
Take a lesson from that and the reaction for the team.
01:14
After that, Cole had the 2-0.
01:16
Hopefully it was so generous.
01:18
And normally in that situation, Cole is a machine.
01:22
And we were lucky that he won the score.
01:23
And after, emotionally, we come back.
01:25
And we come back, not being, I would say, maybe exceptional,
01:30
but we take the ball a lot.
01:33
So a lot of passes and we miss a little bit with a high line from Chelsea.
01:38
Gundo Okoba or Bernardo, especially Gundo Okoba,
01:41
have a little bit more balls to Omar, to Mamuch and Erling,
01:45
because the space was there, the space was there behind,
01:48
but didn't find him for that reason as well.
01:51
So they don't know the movement of Mamuch, not yet.
01:53
So question of time.
01:54
But of course, the situation that we are, the big 23-1
01:59
against Chelsea, and my friend and admirer Enzo.
02:06
So it's really, really important for our final on Wednesday
02:09
and for the next games, of course, in the Premier League.
02:13
Hi, Pep.
02:13
It was just yesterday when you were talking about the need to do the process
02:17
and, you know, have Palzer use the right passes and not give them away.
02:20
But obviously today, especially in the second half,
02:23
you just wanted the ball to get forward as quickly as possible.
02:26
Can you just explain the difference in approach today?
02:30
Like, why was it?
02:31
I know it's not new that you play a long ball,
02:34
but why is it so different today compared to how you'd normally like it?
02:37
Well, most of the time the first half didn't happen.
02:40
I think Okoba, Gundo and Bernardo were the ball
02:43
and Bernardo was unbelievable, helped us, you know, to roll the process.
02:49
But the second half they were more aggressive, they were man-to-man.
02:51
And when it's man-to-man, if they jump to the keeper,
02:54
you can make a two-against-one with the keeper.
02:57
But what doesn't happen, you have to play with Erling.
03:02
If you win that ball, it's a chance.
03:04
And I think he had one chance in the early second half.
03:10
We have to call and have Kevin help us with the ball
03:13
and fit to fill and score the third.
03:16
If you win that ball, they play also,
03:18
we play also man-to-man, they play some balls with Madueke.
03:20
And when they win, it's an action of goal.
03:24
And most of the teams, they do that.
03:26
And today we were brilliant to read that in that situation.
03:31
But of course, it was five, ten minutes in the second half
03:33
that the game was up and down, up and down.
03:34
And with that, we are the worst team.
03:39
Because it's simple, Gundo have legs to go that 40 metres,
03:42
Bernardo has legs and we don't have it.
03:45
And that's why you have to make the ball more and more paused,
03:48
maybe it's less attractive, but it works for us.
03:51
And in the right moment, punish them.
03:52
But except after the second chance from Cole,
03:55
I think we had...
03:57
Josco had two or three, Mamuc had one, and we had chances.
04:04
And, yeah, in terms of control, it was much better than the last games,
04:09
and we created more chances than lately.
04:11
When you've got a young player who's so obviously struggling so early in his debut,
04:15
how do you manage that as a manager?
04:17
Did you consider taking him off after five minutes just to get him out of there?
04:22
Well, I have to learn Russia, Uzbekistan, to communicate with him.
04:27
He doesn't speak fluently, I would say, English.
04:31
Listen, in this kind of situation, there's nothing much to say.
04:34
They know he makes a mistake, he doesn't know it.
04:38
He knows he makes a mistake, he doesn't know it.
04:42
Never having this kind of situation...
04:44
Well, I did it once, one or two years ago with Phil,
04:48
but normally I put him aside and I said,
04:53
what can I say, don't do a mistake.
04:55
He doesn't want to do it, so we know that.
04:59
The reaction from the mates was amazing, the staff,
05:01
and especially I make a substitution for two reasons,
05:04
mainly for the yellow card, not just for the mistake.
05:07
Especially I need John for Wednesday,
05:10
because Mahmoud, Kouza and Victor cannot play,
05:14
and I need John, and John came for the injury,
05:17
and I need to leave with rhythm.
05:18
And it was good to play this 35-40 minutes with us,
05:22
because the final we have on Wednesday with our people,
05:25
of course John is important.
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