Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola expects future games with Arsenal to be tight, including Sunday's Premier League clash
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00:00In recent years, we've seen quite a lot of high-scoring games between the teams at the top of the table.
00:05Last year, you announced it was 1-0 and 0-0.
00:09Do you think that's maybe the way things are going to go more?
00:13Or are you expecting something similar?
00:15Similar.
00:17And is that, do you feel, a trend in football back towards those top games being really, really tight?
00:23To score goals, you're going to score from many different aspects.
00:29In the set-piece, it's not easy because they are so tall, taller than us.
00:32In the transitions, her backwards are quicker than our transitions, offensive.
00:38And when we are able to set them back, and they are so strong defensively,
00:42they accumulate a lot of players that the modern football, the strikers forget about it.
00:47To go to the strikers, they go to the holding midfielders.
00:50So the gap between the spaces, we saw against Inter.
00:53So they defend the space.
00:55They have incredible defensively with the runners in the channels inside,
01:00being defensive with the people in the middle.
01:03So Saliba and Gabriel, they are incredibly focused with just hurling all the time.
01:08So it's not one against one, it's always two against one, sometimes three against one.
01:14So that's why it's difficult to attack them.
01:16I think in 24, they didn't lose away.
01:19I think they drew just one game against us, and they won it.
01:23So it's not just one game or two games.
01:27There are many games, they are solid, consistent in that.
01:30They don't concede goals, and the opponents don't create much options with that.
01:34So that's why you have to try to read well the way we have to do it.
01:37And at the same time, I'm looking forward to playing the game.
01:43And in every game, it's a chance to get better or play better,
01:46or do it better than the game before.
01:48And as much as you play with the opponent, they are consistent in doing similar things.
01:52Always you have a chance to improve some aspects.
01:55So it's a chance for us.
01:57We play at home, and hopefully we can do a good performance.