Guardiola on setting up to win and Bernado Silva injury

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Guardiola on setting up to win and Bernado Silva injury  15/03/2025 embargoed   Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK

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00:00What was the situation with Bernardo Silva? He obviously got an injury but he

00:05looked like he wasn't expecting to go off. I don't know, could not go

00:10properly, I didn't speak with him but I would say that Bernardo if he go out is

00:17because it has to be bad. He's incredibly strong, incredibly dead and I was

00:22watching him five, four, five minutes that could not make two steps properly so in

00:26that moment I decided okay, don't take a risk but I didn't speak with him and the

00:30doctor told me that hopefully it would be a knock, like in two weeks he can

00:33recover and hopefully it will be that but I didn't have time to talk

00:37with the doctors or him.

00:41Hi Pep, you didn't start with Phil Foden today, you put him on the bench, do you feel like he's lacking in energy or confidence?

00:50No, absolutely not. Listen, all the managers around the world, they make one

00:58right decision. When they select eleven, it's because they believe, being right or

01:03being wrong, with that team we're going to win the game. I never found a manager,

01:07never ever, that selects eleven players and thinks he's going to lose. So I try,

01:14when we are right and when we don't win that maybe could be better but we don't

01:19know. So I try to be honest, I need speed up front, I need of course some stability

01:26in the middle with Gundo's intelligence and the physicality from Nico because I

01:30saw many times Brighton, the physicality with Mitoma, with the people up

01:37front, with the midfield players, how good they are and they were

01:42really well, the guys up front. So yeah, next game we'll see, we'll play against Leicester,

01:50the way we're going to play and with who we're going to play.

01:53And Jack didn't make it off the bench today, how should he sort of spend the

01:57international break, training every day? I feel so sorry for all the players that don't play, what can I say?

02:05And also for Mateo, for Kovac and many players and Nico was not

02:10selected today, for Mkhitaryan, I know that, I know that. So when we have every

02:15three days games, it's easy for rotation. Now I decide for that game, for the

02:18quality they have, that pays for Momar, the Erling is always a threat, Jeremy was

02:23outstanding to bring how many times, read the ball and bring the, sorry, to the

02:27by-line. Savio missed the two clear chances but was really, really good, so

02:32the person in the middle was well. So sometimes I give credit to the opponent,

02:35you know that, but I don't have much defence, the game against Nottingham,

02:40today was not the case, so we could win, we could lose, draw, we take the point and

02:44continue, 27 points to play and as much, take as much as possible.

02:48Hi Pep, both goals you conceded today felt quite avoidable, kind of in a theme of the season.

02:56Listen, when we concede the goals, how much we concede this season in the

02:59Premier League, it's not just today, it's all the season. So no question, never point,

03:05and I will point individually someone, it's happened because it happened to

03:08happen all the season, you have to be stable, you have to concede, you know, a few

03:12goals and this was our secret, the people say, no, how would they play, how

03:17would they play in Manchester City last year, it's not, one of the reasons why is

03:20our work ethic, our discipline, we concede few and this season was

03:27exceptional, what happened I would say, in our period here together.

03:32What is missing though, because it's the same players more or less?

03:35No, it's not the same players, definitely not.

03:39Just the injured defenders?

03:41No, no, we are not the same like last year, you are not the same as here and it will be

03:46different next year, so it happened, sorry?

03:49More hearts than Pep?

03:50No.

03:52Last one at the back, please guys.

03:54Good evening Pep, you mentioned you lost a duel earlier and you've mentioned that a

04:06few times this season, lots of teams now they want to make lots and lots of duels.

04:09They are taller.

04:10How do you make sure you win?

04:12They are taller, so when the ball is in the air, you are taller and you are stronger,

04:17you have, the average is higher than you, that's for sure.

04:20How do you fix that, do you stop them going long?

04:22Do you bring in more tall players?

04:24Do you have to just win more of those duels?

04:27Yeah, when John is here, when Manu is here, when Nathan is the best header that we have,

04:31when Roderick is here, yeah right, we don't have it for many times.

04:36But in that concept is a detail, of course we have to pay attention, but it's not the

04:43reason why for today or this season we didn't get the results that we expected in the beginning.

04:49Thank you guys.

04:52Thanks guys.

04:53Thanks guys.

04:54Cheers.

04:55Have a good one.

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