Lopetegui on Manchester City 4-1 west ham
04/01/2025
Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK
04/01/2025
Etihad Stadium, Manchester, UK
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00:00We were unfortunate in that game in that you had two really good chances before
00:05Manchester City scored and then you had a very unlucky decision go against you
00:10when Somerville would have been cleaned through without a free-kick being conceded
00:14and that might have been an equaliser.
00:17Yes, I think that it's not easy today to explain the match for me because I think
00:21that it has been a very strange in this because we deserved more in my
00:25opinion. It's not easy to say that when you lost 4-1
00:28but it's true that it happened out of little detail that they work against us
00:32not only that we don't take advantage of our
00:35clear situation, two chances but very clear, three or four more clear
00:40situations when we can and we have to do better to find our finishing points
00:45and after they scored one goal and when we were very very very unlucky
00:49it was one rebound, it was not one chance, one rebound
00:53and sometimes they don't happen at all these things and after it's true that
00:57we have a very clear situation when Cri, Somerville
01:00regained the ball to Akanji, it was not fault
01:05but the referee said fault and it was a very unlucky situation and unfair
01:11situation for us too. There are a lot of little details that
01:15all of them I think that they can explain why
01:19in the end the score has been like this but it's true that despite this
01:22despite we did very good things and positive things
01:26it was not enough because you don't take advantage when you are better than
01:30the opponent and you overcome one thing has city in a way in the end
01:34you know that normally you are going to lose
01:37because they have a very very high quality players and
01:41it's happening so maybe in the moment we suffer the first goal
01:45we can we can and we have to do better before the half
01:48to arrive one nil in one nil we are in the match and to avoid
01:52the second and third counter attack maybe this little detail because in the
01:56second half they scored two goals too but
01:58they don't dominate us we were playing all the all the second half in the
02:02in the opposite half but in that's why for me it's not easy to explain today
02:07the 4-1
02:16Hi Julien, it's nine goals conceded in the last two games just
02:21how concerned are you about the number of goals you can see in a minute
02:24yeah i know i'm not thinking about the number about the before match i'm
02:28thinking about the match of today has been very different matches in my
02:31opinion very very different and today i'm trying to explain what
02:36happened today in terms of Tadejbo um what was the
02:40nature of his injury
02:44we don't know exactly we have to assess him tomorrow
02:47but it was not i am not very optimist with him we suffered the the injury
02:54gesture with Emerson too in the last training session that's why he didn't
02:58play he was not he was not here we we lost Jarbo and for a lot of times
03:05Antonio so okay in one moment one maybe to say positive things is the answer
03:12that the team did as a team today in in the
03:15different moments on the against one very difficult and tough
03:20opponent we had to keep we had to keep the positive things
03:23to be optimistic to be able to to look forward
03:27and keeping the good things and understanding
03:31that the only thing that we can and we have to do is to look forward and to
03:34improve and to be better and better in terms of
03:38the positive things Nicholas Fulcrook scored again how
03:42encouraged have you been by his start no i think that always is good that
03:46you strike a score but despite this goal i think that he did he did
03:51well in a lot of moments for the team he worked hard he allowed
03:54us to play through him and and was i think a very
03:59consistent performance for him so step by step he's
04:03better and he's good he's good new for us but not only
04:09him i think that today they did very really well
04:14that's why i have to review the match again but it's not easy for me to
04:17explain today the score for 4-1 was not easy
04:21just again on Nicholas Fulcrook he said that he allowed you to play through him
04:26he said that you allowed him to play through him do you think he was good in
04:29the air with his sort of flick-ons to other players
04:31obviously he scored the goal but it felt like he was involved in
04:35holding on to the ball and playing other attackers in as well
04:41no i think that Fulcrook is one striker that allows you to play
04:46sometimes through him in the aerial play but
04:50but he knows to play in the floor too so i think that
04:54he did well but not only with the ball with a ball
04:58against City you have to do very well in the first half that's why
05:02i have a frustration because they have one moment when one knee is true that we
05:08we were more disordered in the 30 minutes when they have two chances to
05:12score is true but despite this moment i think that
05:15they didn't have they didn't overcome us that's why it's a
05:19frustrated day for us but it happened and we have to learn
05:23and to look forward Pep Guardiola said that he didn't think
05:26that his team played particularly well today would you agree
05:29with that
05:33no i i this is you have to ask Guardiola i don't ask about
05:37they play well or not i can't say if i we play well or not
05:41i i talk about my team
05:49hello can you please say something about the subject captaincy was it you will
05:52pick him or was it a team
05:56no he has been captain today because Jared is not
06:01was not and he's in the second captain or third captain with Creswell so
06:06today he has been a captain i think he deserves he's one
06:11one very good professional a good player so
06:15i think that is a good thing for him too okay thank you thanks everyone