Guardiola despairs after City throw away 3 goal lead as Feyenoord comeback to draw
Manchester City 3-3 Feyenoord
UEFA24
26/11/2024
Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK
Manchester City 3-3 Feyenoord
UEFA24
26/11/2024
Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK
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00:00Good evening, everyone, hope you're well.
00:02We'll take a show of hands for questions, please.
00:04Somewhere to start. Jamie, in the middle.
00:10Hi, Pep. You always defend your players publicly, and I understand completely why,
00:16but the way in which they capitulated at the end, was that unprofessional, surprising?
00:23The way they panicked and allowed free goals from 75 minutes in?
00:28No, I'll continue with the same, so it's unnecessary to say anything to them.
00:33They know it perfectly.
00:35So, three episodes, and they didn't allow us to win what we needed for many, many reasons,
00:43not just for the terms of qualification, or get the points to go through,
00:47for many other reasons, and yeah, it's what it is.
00:52It's so difficult to swallow right now, and so the game was good.
00:57We played, scored three, we could have scored more, we do everything,
01:00but at the end, we give away, especially the first one,
01:03and after we are not stable enough, you know, to do it,
01:07and it's not about no run, or the commitment, or nothing as that,
01:10but football, you have to be, in certain moments, do it,
01:13and right now it's, you know, the second goal, the second post,
01:17touch post, Eddie finishing the play when the player is there,
01:22and the last action, Jack, shoot, deflection, keeper, post, and go out.
01:26So, in that situation, everything is like that.
01:29But yeah, improve, what can we do?
01:33So, rest one or two days, and prepare Anfield.
01:35It's just about Anfield, how will you try and lift them for this test?
01:38I have to, we have to, it's my job.
01:40We lift them, we play a good game, but of course, we need to do it,
01:45and we were not able to control the last minutes.
01:51Hi Pep, there were boos at the end from the fans.
01:55Can you understand that?
01:57Do you think your players deserve that,
01:59especially after everything you've achieved?
02:02Last game against Tottenham, with 0-4, they were there,
02:06support as they applaud, of course, they are disappointed,
02:09of course, we understand it, they have done it properly.
02:13But you wouldn't expect that?
02:14Sorry?
02:15You wouldn't expect that after the success you've had here?
02:18People come here not to remember the success in the past.
02:21They come here to see the team win, and perform well, and that's what they have to do.
02:26So, we are not the only ones, we are not the ones,
02:29I'm not the one when the situation is bad, or good,
02:34what they have to do, I'm not saying when it's bad.
02:36So, they support us all the time, when we go away, our fans are amazing,
02:39they're travelling, and there's nothing to do.
02:43Of course, they are completely right to express what they feel, absolutely.
02:48Pep, you said this week that you've learned in your managerial career
02:52you don't necessarily have to shout at the players, you take your time.
02:55This week, how do you help them?
02:57You said they know what they need to do to perform better at Liverpool,
03:01how do you help them get back to their best this week?
03:04Because that is obviously a huge...
03:05No, no, no, we didn't talk absolutely in that moment,
03:10it's like I said with James, so everybody knows the situation,
03:13I don't have to add absolutely anything.
03:15So now, tomorrow, we have to train, recovery, and prepare the next game,
03:19day off, and have two or three days to prepare that, and go for it.
03:24So, we will learn for the future, and have been, it's been,
03:30and will be a tough season for us,
03:32and you have to accept it from many, many circumstances,
03:35and today, unfortunately, the game wasn't well done,
03:39so we punished them in the right moment,
03:41the team was so committed in many, many things,
03:44but unfortunately, you know, the moment something happens,
03:49we are not strong enough, and we have to try to avoid those mistakes.
03:55Yes, Pep, six games in a row now without a victory,
03:58how does this affect you as a manager and a person?
04:01We didn't lose today, so now it's the subject of another one.
04:06Of course, disappointed, it's like a lose for a game,
04:09so, 10, 15 minutes left, 3-0, and for them it was perfect, 3-0,
04:14they didn't say the feeling, I want to come back with a 3-1 or 3-2,
04:18they were there, waiting, we were in control,
04:21and after we gave away the first goal, and after, it was more difficult.
04:26Hi Pep, Josco Gavardia was at fault for two more goals today,
04:31how do you lift him?
04:33He's so young, he will learn.
04:36He's so young, he will learn.
04:39He will be able to explain, the play he played,
04:42he was the best player on the pitch.
04:46The best player on the pitch.
04:48But I will be so wrong if I point a specific thing to our defeat,
04:56he's so young, he will learn.
04:58He's a fantastic player, a fantastic boy,
05:00and now more than ever he must be helped.
05:07You kind of suggested on Saturday that maybe the players are struggling to cope
05:11in-game when there are setbacks, to deal with that when it's happening,
05:15did you feel that today when the first and second goal goes in?
05:20Is it just a confidence thing, is it just something that's in the players' minds?
05:23Yeah, of course they feel it, so they want to win,
05:25that's why they play the way they play,
05:28so it's not easy, and they play really good,
05:31and many, many, many aspects,
05:35how many chances we concede, but again three goals.
05:39We made 26 shoots against Tottenham, day 9 and we lost 0-4.
05:43We were a team that always conceded a few goals in these eight, nine years.
05:48We were so stable through the games, to control, to defend well,
05:52and now it's not going to happen.
05:57So the game was 4-3-0, even more.
05:59I don't remember the first half, maybe one shoot, a deflection, not much.
06:05We cannot close the games, and every time they arrive they score.
06:10Pep, could you just take us quickly into the thinking behind the triple change at 3-0?
06:16The change?
06:17Yeah, the triple change.
06:18Nathan came with 3-0, 20 minutes left, and the game was not in danger.
06:23I didn't have the feeling that they would attack, and 3-0 is never over,
06:27but it happened, and Nathan had been injured for many, many times,
06:31and he didn't want to expose 90 minutes.
06:33Gundogan is the only holding midfielder that we have,
06:35and that's why he made two substitutions,
06:37and the other one was to feel the same, play a lot of minutes,
06:44and of course I do it for Kevin to get rhythm in the best way.
06:50I don't know if you know Kevin, the same with Maka,
06:54and Jamai is always stable emotionally in these types of games,
06:58and Rico was playing really good,
07:00and Matheus was always in the best moment of the game in the second half,
07:03with a marvellous assist and everything.
07:06The game was completely fine, so I didn't have the feeling,
07:09but the moment we gave away the first goal, and afterwards it was more stable.
07:16Hi Pep, it's Boris from Antena 5.
07:19In these situations we ask about positives,
07:21at least you didn't lose this game if there is some sort of a positive,
07:25and again you said before in your career you've not faced a challenge like this.
07:31This is not a football challenge after all, it's a mental one, isn't it?
07:34We were talking to Spurs at the time when they were throwing away games,
07:38leading 3-0, 4-0, whatever, they called them Spurs at times.
07:41Is there a fear that there might be a situation where you can't explain
07:46why you can't contain the result?
07:49Before you score one goal, we expect you to score even more goals,
07:53and win games as soon as you win.
07:55It happened today, we scored one or some more.
07:58We are not able to win games.
08:01As a team we always found a way in the last years, many years,
08:05we found a way to win the games.
08:07In one way, in the other way, it was always different.
08:09And right now after 3-0, in other situations, no more, nothing happened.
08:16This is it, nothing happened.
08:18So we could not score the fourth, we could not score the fifth,
08:21but nothing happened.
08:22So I was in control, and now it doesn't happen.
08:25Last one with Sam, please.
08:27Hi Pep, sorry to go off-topic, but you've got a cut,
08:31and apparently some others.
08:33My finger, here.
08:36My nail.
08:39That's fine.
08:40I want to hurt myself.
08:43Good night.
08:44It'll be okay.