Guardiola delight after Manchester City snatch late Villa win not strengthen UCL chances

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Guardiola delight after City snatch late Villa win not strengthen UCL chances  22/04/2025  Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK

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00:00Congratulations, how big was that win? Your reaction at the end suggested that it was a win?

00:06If we win the next four games have been so important, yes.

00:10Of course it's important, we don't have to be a scientist to realise that we play against Justin Villa,

00:17one of the best teams, we saw the games against Newcastle, we saw the games against PSG,

00:22the top form, the quality, the manager and everything.

00:26It's an extraordinary team, but we did perform like we were in the past, the commitment,

00:32we conceded not much and we didn't create much neither, but we controlled most of the games,

00:38the back four again have been amazing, all the players.

00:42In terms of qualification for the Champions League, for the points, of course it's important,

00:46but at the same time we have to be calm and focus in the semi-final,

00:54and after we have days to prepare for the finals.

00:58Two games at home, two away and game by game.

01:04Rob?

01:05Rob?

01:06Rob?

01:07Yeah, of course, he's a person that is incredible love, because when you talk with all of you,

01:24with the journalists and the media it's always so, so serious, but in the locker room and dressing room

01:29it's completely the opposite, it's always laughing, laughing.

01:32He's my guy, so yeah, he's playing in a natural position.

01:36And Nico, if you tell me in the beginning of the season we are going to play at the end of the season,

01:41to reach a final FA Cup or to fight to qualify the Champions League with Mateos and Nico,

01:48like a fullback, red fullback, red fullback, you tell me what they're talking about.

01:52But yeah, they perform well, have incredible pace, so a different type of player like Rico.

02:00Rico is in the smaller spaces, he's so clean in the way he plays, but Mateos, the physicality,

02:11when he has to run and has to sustain the good wingers, he is able to do it.

02:16And step by step he's playing better.

02:18Not for the goal that he scored, but of course it has been so important.

02:22Mike?

02:23Do you have a few moments as well?

02:26The thinking about going to the top field to one, something made and what you saw?

02:35Jeremy always gives you something, you know, for the crowd and we change the games.

02:40Of course he can play all.

02:42So in the first three or four actions, Diazzi and being held from Malen could not do the action,

02:49but at the end, always you have the…

02:52For me, Jeremy is the best player in the world in the first five meters.

02:57So in the top of five meters, it's unstoppable.

03:00He made the action and today make an incredible good cross and to score a goal you have to be there.

03:06And Gundo was there and Omar was there, Nico was there and Mateos was there.

03:09And at the end, we could score and win the game.

03:14You said earlier that everybody had a good performance.

03:17But it seemed like one of those where Bernardo was not really…

03:20What's this season been like for him?

03:27I don't… I don't forget Bernardo.

03:30What he has done for us this season, especially this season.

03:33I don't forget.

03:34Now we are here, didn't play much in the last minutes.

03:37But I don't forget November, December, January, February, Mars.

03:40Like we didn't win one single game.

03:42And I was there every single time.

03:44And running 30 kilometers every way and playing different positions and running.

03:49And it was a moment that was empty mentally.

03:52And after that, no win games, no win games.

03:54It was tired.

03:55It was empty.

03:56But Bernardo in the important games have an incredible, huge personality.

03:59He's a player for me at another level for many, many reasons.

04:06And today for the game, Kovac, Kovac today was brilliant as well.

04:10I think all the players.

04:11All the players were commitment.

04:13Maybe we missed a little bit the lack of quality.

04:19Of course, Kevin make an incredible assist with a control from Macca.

04:24Make a chipping.

04:25Unfortunately, we could not score.

04:26But we didn't create much.

04:28But it's not easy against PSG.

04:29Sorry, Aston Villa.

04:31It's not easy.

04:32Because they defend low block, five, six players in the back, you know.

04:36And it's not easy.

04:38So, question be patient.

04:39And today, Kovac and Bernardo helped us to read that.

04:44Yeah.

04:49No, it's not play the wingers.

04:59Because now, lately, I'm open with the fullbacks.

05:03That's the reason why.

05:04So, in the moment he will learn to play inside,

05:07because I think I have quality to do it, he will play inside.

05:10Always I've played since nine years with the wingers,

05:12high and high, one against one, one against one.

05:15But lately, for the reasons, because for stability,

05:18or for many reasons, because we need more control or whatever,

05:22we play with fullbacks wide.

05:24So, that's why he may be playing less.

05:26But not because he's playing bad.

05:28No, it's not about that.

05:29No, that's what I meant.

05:30You don't think he can beat the beat,

05:32but he starts playing with the back.

05:34Yeah.

05:36You think that's true?

05:38We'll learn.

05:39Yeah.

05:40In this game.

05:41In this game, generally?

05:42He has to improve, yeah.

05:44He improves a lot and he will improve.

05:46Yeah.

05:47Always I said that the moment he makes the action in one speed,

05:51in the moment that you're making,

05:52you have to reduce the speed.

05:54It's not about you cannot make one against one,

05:56in the moment that passes, you have to be relaxed.

05:58You have to see.

06:00Otherwise, cross to cross, if the cross is not good,

06:02we're not going to score a goal.

06:04But he's 23, 24 years old.

06:07So, he's so young.

06:08He has something unique.

06:09Unique in terms of speed.

06:12Yeah.

06:13I said before, Bournemouth game changed something,

06:34and now I realize that we were not miles away.

06:39And I said many times, all truff of the game was blue.

06:42But at least we were there.

06:44And before, we were not there.

06:46So, at minimum.

06:47Today we saw it, how he moved.

06:49Maka and everyone was aggressive in all the actions.

06:52And at least that, that level you have to compete.

06:54Always we have been like that.

06:56And we need, yeah, we need for the semifinal,

07:00because I'm incredibly impressed,

07:02Notre Dame and Forest,

07:03how Nuno is able to defend every single ball.

07:07The midfielders, the full-back, the central defenders,

07:09like it's the last ball of their lives.

07:11And how they defend that position,

07:14enjoying defending, that is an incredible attribute.

07:16This is talent.

07:19People believe that talent is...

07:21No, this is talent.

07:22And focus on the last four games.

07:24So, the importance we have in our hands,

07:26if we win the three or four games,

07:28we will be there.

07:29Oh.

07:30On the pitch.

07:44I never thought, I never thought,

07:46I never thought,

07:47I never thought could play there.

07:48But for injury from Manu,

07:50in the training session,

07:51I started to play the left-back.

07:52And I said, hmm.

07:53Okay.

07:54You know, play.

07:55And after,

07:56when he played the last minutes in Bournemouth

07:58or whatever,

07:59I said, yeah, I'm playing.

08:01I said, do they make another two or three assists

08:03and defensively have to handle with the incredible players?

08:07So, of course not his position,

08:09but he gave us an incredible alternative

08:13because in the left-back,

08:14we have just Jusko

08:16and that's all.

08:17Because Nathan had been injured, unfortunately.

08:19So,

08:20and his presence is, you know,

08:21and I had the feeling that game by game

08:23he's playing better.

08:25I had the feeling today he played better than Goodison Park.

08:28And that is a good sign for him, for us.

08:31Last one we're done, please, guys.

08:39The supporters?

08:52No, we won't.

08:57I am in the sight of the people.

09:00So, I'm a supporter for Manchester City as well.

09:03I don't have to pay the tickets,

09:05but I understand this with the feeling.

09:07I said in the previous ones,

09:09the clubs are alive when they have disagree

09:13or agree or whatever with the club,

09:15they can express and the club will listen

09:17to arrive in agreement.

09:19So, I'm not saying who I am

09:21to say that is right or wrong.

09:23So, every time, when I go to the theatre,

09:26I go to the cinema, I go to a concert,

09:28I pay the ticket and I want to, you know,

09:32I want to see something that I like.

09:33It's the same.

09:34So, of course, we want them yes or yes here

09:38and full of stadium every time.

09:40But the club is open, I'm pretty sure,

09:42because I know the club,

09:43that when they are in disagree,

09:45we're not that subject in any subject.

09:47That's why the club is always alive.

09:50Thank you, guys.

09:51Good night.

09:53Ph remade.

09:54Good night.

09:55My pleasure.

09:56My pleasure.

10:00Yes, sir,

10:01we're from one-level new.

10:03My pleasure.

10:04Anyway,

10:06for all years,

10:07we told you from the last set,

10:09we've written a few years ago.

10:10And so,

10:11we should find obliteracy.

10:13What if we don't normally do?

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