Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola attacked the Premier League schedule and fixture congestion in football ahead of Saturday's game with Newcastle
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00:00 You know, every day we arrive here in the training centre, we open the door and we see
00:05 the four trophies in front of us.
00:08 You see the Premier League, the Champions League, the FA Cup, now the Super Cup.
00:11 Wow, say, how nice is that?
00:14 How difficult is that?
00:16 And we love it.
00:17 We love to watch it and we want to continue to compete.
00:21 Now we have a big, big problem, especially with this game, but in general.
00:26 But that is what it is.
00:28 So I would love...
00:32 Every manager would see the same in my position.
00:36 People went to sleep at 4am in Greece, we play at 10am, at 4am.
00:41 Arrive, recovery with 35 degrees, 40 degrees in Greece, come back, arrive here late, tomorrow
00:46 is the previous game, tomorrow game.
00:48 Today we cannot train.
00:49 I would train, but today everyone in the pool, everyone in the table, massage, nothing.
00:53 We're not going to do anything.
00:55 Because we don't have time.
00:56 So we love one more day.
00:58 But OK, we accept it, this is the challenge.
01:01 Every manager would say the same.
01:02 We are the challenge.
01:03 This is the problem, difficulty.
01:05 That's why we won.
01:07 Because we overcome all the time these kind of positions.
01:09 In wintertime, always we had less time to recover between the games.
01:15 In the boxing days, not the problem.
01:17 We have to go there and try it.
01:19 The more physical team, the transition team in the Premier League right now, alongside
01:22 Liverpool, Newcastle, have to be incredibly careful in many things.
01:26 But this is what defines the big teams, how we compete with the problems.
01:32 When everything is suited, everything is comfortable, that is not the point.
01:36 The point is that, it's tomorrow.
01:38 That's why when we play in Newcastle, that cannot happen, but we play at home.
01:45 And at home I want to see our crowd, a lot of noise.
01:50 We need them, we need them, more than ever.