Guardiola on City's 3-1 Chelsea win and debutants performances
25/01/2025
Etihad Stadium, manchester, Uk
25/01/2025
Etihad Stadium, manchester, Uk
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00:00Evening, guys, we'll take a show of hands, come to as many of you as possible,
00:10set an embargo towards the end for 10.30 on Sunday evening.
00:13Somewhere to start, please.
00:14Simon.
00:18Pep, congratulations on the win.
00:20Could you just tell us what you were thinking after five minutes,
00:25what you were thinking about Kusanov and what he was like in the dressing room after the game?
00:34Well, what I thought, he's not the best start, right?
00:39He will take a lesson.
00:44So young, come from many years, he's not the best start, of course,
00:47but deal with Jackson, with Cole, with all these incredible players, it's not easy.
00:51And I love the reaction of his mates.
00:55He didn't make one training session with us, he didn't make absolutely anything
01:00because we came from Ipwich town and Paris and I won.
01:03So it was just recovery, recovery, recovery.
01:06And yeah, he will learn.
01:08So he's young, he will learn.
01:09I'm pretty sure.
01:11Take a lesson from that and the reaction for the team.
01:14After that, Cole had the 2-0.
01:16Hopefully it was so generous.
01:18And normally in that situation, Cole is a machine.
01:22And we were lucky that he won the score.
01:23And after, emotionally, we come back.
01:25And we come back, not being, I would say, maybe exceptional,
01:30but we take the ball a lot.
01:33So a lot of passes and we miss a little bit with a high line from Chelsea.
01:38Gundo Okoba or Bernardo, especially Gundo Okoba,
01:41have a little bit more balls to Omar, to Mamuch and Erling,
01:45because the space was there, the space was there behind,
01:48but didn't find him for that reason as well.
01:51So they don't know the movement of Mamuch, not yet.
01:53So question of time.
01:54But of course, the situation that we are, the big 23-1
01:59against Chelsea, and my friend and admirer Enzo.
02:06So it's really, really important for our final on Wednesday
02:09and for the next games, of course, in the Premier League.
02:13Hi, Pep.
02:13It was just yesterday when you were talking about the need to do the process
02:17and, you know, have Palzer use the right passes and not give them away.
02:20But obviously today, especially in the second half,
02:23you just wanted the ball to get forward as quickly as possible.
02:26Can you just explain the difference in approach today?
02:30Like, why was it?
02:31I know it's not new that you play a long ball,
02:34but why is it so different today compared to how you'd normally like it?
02:37Well, most of the time the first half didn't happen.
02:40I think Okoba, Gundo and Bernardo were the ball
02:43and Bernardo was unbelievable, helped us, you know, to roll the process.
02:49But the second half they were more aggressive, they were man-to-man.
02:51And when it's man-to-man, if they jump to the keeper,
02:54you can make a two-against-one with the keeper.
02:57But what doesn't happen, you have to play with Erling.
03:02If you win that ball, it's a chance.
03:04And I think he had one chance in the early second half.
03:10We have to call and have Kevin help us with the ball
03:13and fit to fill and score the third.
03:16If you win that ball, they play also,
03:18we play also man-to-man, they play some balls with Madueke.
03:20And when they win, it's an action of goal.
03:24And most of the teams, they do that.
03:26And today we were brilliant to read that in that situation.
03:31But of course, it was five, ten minutes in the second half
03:33that the game was up and down, up and down.
03:34And with that, we are the worst team.
03:39Because it's simple, Gundo have legs to go that 40 metres,
03:42Bernardo has legs and we don't have it.
03:45And that's why you have to make the ball more and more paused,
03:48maybe it's less attractive, but it works for us.
03:51And in the right moment, punish them.
03:52But except after the second chance from Cole,
03:55I think we had...
03:57Josco had two or three, Mamuc had one, and we had chances.
04:04And, yeah, in terms of control, it was much better than the last games,
04:09and we created more chances than lately.
04:11When you've got a young player who's so obviously struggling so early in his debut,
04:15how do you manage that as a manager?
04:17Did you consider taking him off after five minutes just to get him out of there?
04:22Well, I have to learn Russia, Uzbekistan, to communicate with him.
04:27He doesn't speak fluently, I would say, English.
04:31Listen, in this kind of situation, there's nothing much to say.
04:34They know he makes a mistake, he doesn't know it.
04:38He knows he makes a mistake, he doesn't know it.
04:42Never having this kind of situation...
04:44Well, I did it once, one or two years ago with Phil,
04:48but normally I put him aside and I said,
04:53what can I say, don't do a mistake.
04:55He doesn't want to do it, so we know that.
04:59The reaction from the mates was amazing, the staff,
05:01and especially I make a substitution for two reasons,
05:04mainly for the yellow card, not just for the mistake.
05:07Especially I need John for Wednesday,
05:10because Mahmoud, Kouza and Victor cannot play,
05:14and I need John, and John came for the injury,
05:17and I need to leave with rhythm.
05:18And it was good to play this 35-40 minutes with us,
05:22because the final we have on Wednesday with our people,
05:25of course John is important.