Pep on Hudson-Odi goal and getting into Champions League next season

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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola on Hudson-Odi goal and getting into Champions League next season  09/03/2025  City Ground, Nottingham, UK

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00:00Would finishing 5th now, considering that will bring Champions League, would that now represent success for you from where you are now?

00:10Of course qualification to Champions League will be a big success, but you have to win it.

00:17So even if there are 5th or 6th or 7th, I don't know, so you have to win it, you have to win games.

00:23And we are able to do it sometimes in a row, but sometimes after we, you know, it's 4, 5, 6 minutes left, 8 minutes left,

00:31we're at the end of the game, we have a chance, we could not do it.

00:34There was a point when Hudson-Joy was coming down your right side, where you were,

00:40and you had been all over them attacking, but you're going, you have hands to your head, you're always just staring.

00:47What is it that your team are not doing for you in those transitional moments?

00:52I always move a lot my hands and my arms, so it's not just today, always have been like that.

00:59But are your team not in the defence of transition?

01:03I think we control really well, except I would say the last 10 minutes I wanted to ask,

01:07but in general we control really well the transition, it's a team like Atalanta, Hudson-Joy,

01:11but the way we play it and after the position that we had, we control it.

01:16At the moment, you said it wouldn't be the end of the world if you didn't get Champions League,

01:19do you feel within the squad there's a lack of...

01:22Listen, listen, I want to qualify for the Champions League,

01:25I saw it will not be good if we don't qualify for the Champions League,

01:27what happened in the past with other teams in the Premier League,

01:29they are not this season or previously in the Champions League.

01:31Of course, we want to be in the Champions League, it will be a problem,

01:34but what I'm saying is that there are teams not qualified and still now we come back and they are there.

01:41How many years has Manchester City been in the Champions League regularly?

01:45One decade? Ten years? Nine years? Ten years? No more than that,

01:48before Neba was playing in that competition.

01:50So, of course, we are used to doing exceptional things and the people,

01:56and of course we have to try to do it, of course we'll be there,

02:00but at the end, of course, we'll wake up in the morning,

02:03we try to do a good season, next season, and at the end we have to continue.

02:07So, at the end, in the sport, as I said yesterday,

02:10no-cut guest stage in the FA Cup, in the Champions League, in every competition,

02:13sometimes, you know, the circumstances, many details make the difference,

02:18but in the Premier League 38 games, if we are not able to finish in the first four or five,

02:23it's because we are not good enough and we have to continue next season and have to do it.

02:28But, of course, we have ten games, it still is in our hands and we are going to try.

02:31Are you seeing enough for the players, though?

02:33There's so much talk about next season, next season,

02:35but are you seeing enough that the players want to be in the next ten games?

02:41This is what I want.

02:44This is what I want, yeah.

02:46Finish at the back, please.

02:47How impressed are you with the physical, so far?

02:53The impact has been really good, so we cannot demand to him to do something like

02:57I still need to do it, but defensively and aggression and, you know,

03:02the concentration is massive, it's really good.

03:05Okay, thank you guys.

03:06Good afternoon.

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