Pep apologises to the Orient fans for calling them Leyton!

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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola apologises to the Orient fans for calling them Leyton!  08/02/2025  Leyton Orient FC, London, UK

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00:00Congratulations. Can I just first ask you, as someone who is so steeped in football,

00:07what you thought when the first goal went in?

00:11What a goal. So it was a fantastic shoot and kick, the quality, technique,

00:17the speed, the fly of the ball.

00:20So when you concede this goal, it just congratulates the guy

00:28who I think was the only incredible left foot player.

00:32We saw him and he made a fantastic goal.

00:36Can I ask you a few thoughts on the tie as a whole?

00:40Obviously, it was a hard game and also the injury to Gonzalez in that move.

00:47Well, I think Nico got to immediately what is the Premier League and the referees.

00:54So I know without BAR it's more difficult because they are not used,

01:01but I know it's a Ligue 1.

01:03But there was one or two actions that I say that because we won.

01:05Otherwise, I would have stayed silent.

01:08But there is a clamorous penalty. But I understand.

01:11I think he understood perfectly what a single it is.

01:16And it's a pity because I don't know, you know, the kick,

01:20how hard it is, but could not continue.

01:22And it was tough, you know, to finish the game with Rico and Bernardo

01:29like a left and right back.

01:31They are not, I would say, the giant people I have ever seen as a left back.

01:36So, but I've said the first ten minutes,

01:38I would say that they attacked really good the channel.

01:40And after that, except the last ten minutes,

01:42I think we play a really good game. It's impossible to control.

01:46It's my ninth season in England.

01:47I play many times in a lower division

01:50in this incredible competition.

01:51So the vibe and the smell of the crowd

01:55and everything you play in the FA Cup,

01:57you don't find it in other places,

01:59especially in these games.

02:00I've been remembered in Newport with Michael Flynn,

02:03the manager, with Cheltenham and many others.

02:06And always we behave really good.

02:08So we were lucky at the end. We got the high chances,

02:10but we created a lot in front of the keeper.

02:13It was really, really good.

02:14And yeah, it was a tight game.

02:16We knew it for the situation that we have,

02:18but we behave really, really well.

02:20We react really well with a great character.

02:23And yeah, we are in the next round. It's always nice.

02:25So we have been in the last four or five years,

02:27in the last stages, semifinals and all the time.

02:30So it's good to continue.

02:33You changed your defenders at half-time.

02:36Was that just tactical?

02:38Yeah, Ruben, the plan was Ruben just 45 minutes.

02:40We come from injury and I didn't want to bring two new players,

02:45Koussa and Victor, playing at the same time.

02:48With that result, it was too much risk.

02:51I want one alongside with experience with Ruben and John.

02:54John was amazing in the second half as well.

02:57And that was the reason why, that was the reason why.

03:02For the new players coming in,

03:03was that the perfect welcome to English football?

03:06Absolutely. You have to live that.

03:09My first away game was in Stockport, against Stock City.

03:13So a long time ago.

03:14So I realised immediately what the Premier League is.

03:17And you love the FA Cup.

03:19You talk so fondly about the competition.

03:23The atmosphere there was just fantastic.

03:24Fantastic.

03:26Were you able to enjoy it at all?

03:30Well, when they say you are going to suck in the morning,

03:33not much, but it's a routine in all the stadiums right now.

03:37So still, with this result,

03:40I think my chairman is not going to suck me tomorrow.

03:42That's for sure. But I would say that was really good.

03:46Really good. It's not the first time I would say that.

03:48I don't know in a Ligue 1, in every single game,

03:50the vibe is like this. I don't know.

03:53But it's really good. You come to Ashens or the football,

03:57the locker room is, you know, so tight.

04:00The players are so, they even can't talk more than in a big locker room.

04:04But all of us, I said many times to the players,

04:06we came from here.

04:08So we didn't warm up at 67, 80, 90 years old.

04:11We go to Wembley. We were born in this place,

04:14in these locker rooms, you know.

04:17And I like, especially when you play in the lower divisions,

04:20I like the way we want the team to behave.

04:27Because you really behave properly. How many surprises have been in the FA Cup

04:31through the long history in this competition.

04:34And I said that we won, I think, the first or second season,

04:36when we play a lot of minutes, 10 against 11.

04:40The rest, all the time, we were there,

04:43and we played good games in difficult circumstances,

04:46difficult environments. And now, of course,

04:50our position is a little bit unstable emotionally.

04:53We have actually a lot of injuries,

04:54and that's why I go through in these results.

04:58It makes me so, so proud and so happy.

05:01What did you think at the end when Leighton Oren got the free kick,

05:04and sent the goalkeeper up? Were you kind of fearing that he's going to,

05:07because he's scored already in this competition,

05:08were you fearing he's going to do it again and take possession?

05:10Well, I didn't know who scored before,

05:12because I'm sorry I don't follow as much Leighton.

05:14So I saw it the last two, three, this week a little bit more,

05:17because we had more time. Of course,

05:19we had a clear chance, but we have. With Phil Foden,

05:22with Kevin, with Bernardo Henrico,

05:24we are a small team and they bring a lot of players,

05:28strong, good delivers. You are going to suffer,

05:32definitely. But the game should have been,

05:36a score, Omar had a lot of chances we had there,

05:38you know, but the keeper winning a fantastic game.

05:41We know, no matter it's a Premier League, Championship League,

05:44One League, Two, you go, if you're capped 2-1 last minutes,

05:47you are going to suffer, my friend. It's impossible to say,

05:51it's not going to happen. They bring players there and they can do it,

05:54it's always difficult.

05:57I know you have huge respect for the FA Cup,

05:59but I do have to give you a small correction.

06:01It's Orient, not Leighton.

06:04They get very defensive about it in these parts.

06:07Listen, I don't want to offend anyone. I've been offended many times,

06:10but I don't want to offend. Don't worry.

06:14All of you talk about me and me not talk about your job,

06:16so don't offend me.

06:18I'm so sorry for the people, for this lovely stadium.

06:22But what did you make of their performance as a whole?

06:27The atmosphere and what it meant to this football club?

06:31I said Leighton, Orient,

06:34so I said properly now. So I said before,

06:39it's special. You feel it. You feel it.

06:42You feel it. So I play more direct,

06:44but of course, when they can contact the striker,

06:48it's so dangerous in the channels, how they attack,

06:51how strong they are. Number 10 is a fantastic player.

06:54So I like it the same many times.

06:57So I know it's not perfect for us,

07:00and we like a perfect grass and different conditions,

07:03but that was the FA Cup, right?

07:05So because any team in any competition has the right to fight

07:09against top teams to try to beat them.

07:12And we knew it. We know it. We knew it before.

07:14So there's no one player thought we'll come here.

07:16We take, you know, the tablecloth. I'm going to make an incredible dinner.

07:21We knew that is not going to happen,

07:22and we felt it, and we compete,

07:26and we were there until the end.

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