"He will be back." - Pep on Foden's form - video Dailymotion

Guardiola blames the team for drop in goals, defends Foden’s recent struggles

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00:00No, I'm not agreeing. Listen, when the team is not playing in the level, the standard

00:04we had, looks like, and everyone looks like, you know, not what we were. Phil has no doubt.

00:10I see every training session, the passion they put, his smile on his face. This is what

00:14I want. His smile on his face and playing like to it. Of course, the impact has not

00:18been, but not from Phil. If you see the numbers in the last four, five, six years, the many

00:22players are here in terms of goal assists. This season we dropped incredible in all of

00:26them. It's not one. One will be easy. It's all of them. And that's why we were struggling,

00:33you know, to create or win games and so on. But the quality is there. And sometimes, you

00:39know, in a long career, always you have seasons that you are not, you know. Maybe in a season

00:43I ride the peak in terms of the best player of the Premier League. He won the Premier

00:49League in the last games. The last game against, you remember, was Ham. Won the game with two

00:54goals and his impact was incredible. And he will be back.