Guardiola on City push for champions league qualification ahead of Villa

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Guardiola on City push for champions league qualification ahead of Villa  21/04/2025 shot on 190425 but embargoed  Goodison Park, Liverpool, UK

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00:00Like the final, is that how you see it in terms of the qualification?

00:04No, absolutely.

00:06And after this to me that will be the game against Wolves,

00:10we will be the final against Southampton because every point, every game counts.

00:14But, you know, he's a contender to qualify for the Champions League, both games.

00:20And when you see the game against my friend Luis Enrique Peseje,

00:26I was very impressed. They can play low block and play away,

00:31but when they decide to go with the weapons they have, the speed they have,

00:34the set pieces when Carola will organize to deny.

00:37It's the final and we need our people because I think our people won the Champions League next season again.

00:43And hopefully they can help us for the middle one.

00:46Don't wait, sometimes we are slowpies, sometimes we are not playing good.

00:49It's done now, now we need them. We need them desperately.

00:52You know, to support us, to make noise and being there all the time,

00:57because it's a final, absolutely it's a final for us.

01:00Who was Morgan Rodgers? Was he one which was with the first team while you were there?

01:05Was he...?

01:06He was in the second team and he trained sometimes with us.

01:11And we could see something like, you know, could do it.

01:17But the impact had been in Villa had been...

01:22What a player. So, we had an exceptional player here, absolutely.

01:29I just wanted to ask about Tosco and Ruben in the middle, Tosco Vintour,

01:36how you think he's doing and could be an option next year in the middle?

01:43Yeah, yeah. I like him, especially with the build-up with the left.

01:48He's fast, so fast, going behind.

01:51I think Ruben and him as a person, they are so generous.

01:55So, they talk a lot, especially Ruben.

01:58And I think they are doing a really, really good partnership.

02:00So, it's an option.

02:02We'll see if we buy...

02:04I don't think we want to club niche and to defend.

02:06We have a lot.

02:08And we bought too young in the summertime.

02:11But we'll see the importance of how a player can play there,

02:16and he can play in the back.

02:18And that is so important for us.

02:20You keep saying Nicole Riley is in the back,

02:23or is he going to make it impossible not to play in there?

02:27Well, the season is too long.

02:29The impact has been good.

02:30Now we have one in a week.

02:32So, Nicole has to recover.

02:33We have to see if he can play every three days, three days.

02:36Like, for example, Bernardo have proven, or Kevin have proven,

02:40or Ruben, proven.

02:42So, I know these young players are able to play three games a week

02:45during month and month and month.

02:47But it's a reality already.

02:50I admire a lot the fact that playing position never played before.

02:55He's learning.

02:56He, of course, has to improve.

02:58But with the ball, it's good.

03:01You know, people play there.

03:02But, of course, his position is...

03:04I'm pretty sure if he plays attacking midfield,

03:06and every cross, he's in the penalty spot.

03:08That's what I like as attacking midfielders.

03:09I'm pretty sure.

03:10Otherwise, they'll score the goals like a score so far.

03:14He likes to be there, have a good shoot,

03:16and quality in his most places.

03:18And his happiness, you know,

03:20for the problems that we had in the set pieces.

03:22His structure, you know, helps.

03:26Yeah.

03:27You mentioned Jeremy Doku, that he seemed to make an impact when he came on

03:31and had trouble with him.

03:32What more were you looking for from him?

03:34I've been...

03:35I've been so unfair with him in the last games

03:38because I remember the games against the Spurs away

03:41before the Spurs to play here in Brighton, for example.

03:47Without him, it was impossible.

03:48But the only reason, reason, reason, reason that they don't play today

03:53is not the reason why, but lately because we didn't attack in the last games

03:57with the wingers.

03:58We got more full-backs wide and more players in the middle, like Bormuz,

04:02like other players.

04:04But it was not reason.

04:06It was not reason to not play that game.

04:09It's only my reason.

04:10I feel sorry for him and for another one.

04:12But today the impact has been much, much better than all Trafford.

04:16Trafford wasn't good.

04:17And today the impact was, you know, how the ball dropped the teams

04:23and his threat right by line.

04:25Because Jeremy in the final 30s had a stopper.

04:28He was an incredible, incredible football player.

04:30And I'm really pleased that today the player is really good.

04:35Thank you guys.

04:36Okay, thank you.

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