Pep Guardiola calls on City to replicate Newcastle win and turn around Madrid UCL deficit

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Pep Guardiola calls on City to replicate Newcastle win and turn around Madrid UCL deficit  16/02/2025 ebargoed from 15/02/2025  Etihad Stadium, Manchester, Uk

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00:00Hi Pep, was that the sort of performance that you needed ahead of Wednesday night

00:03to sort of give you a confidence going to Madrid?

00:07Listen, there are many, many games that we wanted not playing the level we play

00:11and at the end we lost it.

00:12And that was not just the three points, it's how it affected our minds for the next game.

00:16It happened a lot, a lot of times.

00:18Of course, the victory helped us, but listen, the margin to win in Bernabeu

00:22in that position, everybody knows that if you ask before the game

00:26the percentage to go through, I don't know, we arrive at 1% or I don't know what you mean.

00:31But as much as you have a chance, we will try.

00:35That's for sure, you know, you know.

00:40So we are going like always, we are done.

00:42But this isn't the reality.

00:44We have been miles and miles away to.

00:47If you tell me, if you outperform like today,

00:50we'll finish 22 in the Champions League.

00:52Of course not, we have finished higher.

00:56But the reality, we have been really, really poor in performance in the results this season.

01:00And just for one game that today played really good.

01:03And there's no going to change the opinion, the reality, the team it is right now.

01:08And we are still not good in terms of day by day being that.

01:13But of course, it's better to travel to Madrid with this result.

01:17I imagine the defeat in the last minutes of the defeat.

01:20So at the end, OK, the chance is minor because the result was not good five minutes ago.

01:28With 2-1 it will be different, but with 2-3, the chances is.

01:32But as much as you have a chance, we are going to take it.

01:35And we'll see what happens.

01:37Richard.

01:38Hi Pep, just going back to Nico Gonzalez, a couple of things.

01:42Do you think he's at his best as a six or as an eight?

01:46And also just with the way some of his teammates played today,

01:49do you think people like Ilkay...

01:51I think he can play in both positions.

01:53In Barcelona, he played more number eight.

01:55That means he's a guy who's right to the box, ability to dribble.

01:58But when he arrived, we met each other.

02:00You forget about it to play in that position.

02:02You have to mentally prepare to play there in front of the central defenders.

02:06But the role that Gundo has done in the travel year and the quadruple,

02:09that can be an attacking midfielder, holding midfielder, this double position.

02:15He can do it perfectly.

02:16He can do it with Rodri, that shape to go forward and back.

02:20He can help us.

02:21And do you think that some of his teammates benefited from having him there?

02:25Absolutely.

02:26Do you think it's the way he can play today?

02:28Absolutely.

02:30So you tell me, why do they play good?

02:32For many reasons.

02:32It's not because just Mamuch, you know, the highlights, that he deserved it.

02:36I think because Nico was there.

02:37And Nico, because maybe Gusanov was there.

02:39Or maybe the best, John, is there.

02:41You know, maybe with the passes from Eddie was there.

02:45It's always one of the highlights for that player to play bad or that player to play good.

02:48And everything is connected.

02:50You know, our high pressing was good and our movement for the full-backs was good.

02:55And this is what we try to do.

02:57One each for Paul and Joe, please.

02:58Paul?

03:00Just on Nathan Ake and Ruben Dias, they were here today, but not in the squad.

03:05Will they have a chance for Wednesday?

03:07I hope so.

03:09They were not good.

03:11Ruben said, I'm not ready to play.

03:1390 minutes, maybe 50-20.

03:15But having Victor on the bench, I wouldn't risk it.

03:18And Nathan had a sick and problems after the game against Madrid.

03:22So both, they were not ready to play.

03:25Joe?

03:26Following on from that, Gusanov played very well and much better than his last experience here against Chelsea.

03:35Yeah, he was whistled two or three times.

03:37He's so aggressive in the one-against-one.

03:39But apparently it's just his fault with him.

03:44When our central defender was prestigious, that would not be a fault.

03:47But the player ran.

03:48So I think he will...

03:52It was not easy, right?

03:53The first day against Chelsea, everybody, you know that.

03:55What happened in the minutes is not easy for Uzbekistan or France to come here.

04:00And since then, they didn't play.

04:01Do they play again for the circumstances of Ruben?

04:05Manuel Kanji and Nathan and so on should play.

04:09And it's really good for him, for all of us.

04:12The potential that we visualise they can have.

04:14He's a composer with the ball.

04:16And he's so extremely fast.

04:20The back won't have to run with his act.

04:22He can handle it.

04:23He's so fast.

04:24The decision-making has to improve.

04:26But it's a question of age.

04:28But the most important, he settled really, really, really.

04:30So shy, don't talk much.

04:32And so like this.

04:34And I think it will help us a lot.

04:37He settled really good with the team.

04:38And the same is like Nico.

04:40They are so young, like Victor.

04:41They are so young.

04:42And for the next, you know, years, we have players that Manchester City can develop and perform well.

04:49Thank you, guys.

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