Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola We don't have defence, I don't have defence that's when you lose games
21/12/2024
Villa Park, Birmingham, UK
21/12/2024
Villa Park, Birmingham, UK
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00:00We saw three months in and you're still looking for so many injuries, what happens if you don't get your players back?
00:07We'll play with the lemon, Jamai will play, if we cannot play central defenders, we'll play with the players that we have, it's what it is.
00:15I'm lucky that many players, like for example Bernardo, I know Bernardo is a special player for me, but how he revel in the situation,
00:24how he put his heart in reveling in that position, he's an incredible winner, he's an incredible example for all of us,
00:33how he behaves in all the minutes he plays in different positions, always trying to help, always trying to read what happens in certain positions,
00:40helping in that, playing attacking midfielder, holding midfielder, always defensively making an incredible effort.
00:46Some of them, some of them Rico, what can I say, the guy can play right back or left back in the position, can be more controlled, struggling.
00:55When the team is playing, all of us we look like not as good as we were, it's normal.
01:01It happens that in the moment we come back to the winning games or the players come back, so we'll be better.
01:08Does it feel like a win is around the corner?
01:15It's not about the winning game, it's about how much winning games didn't consist.
01:19It's not about winning the game, of course, maybe we can win one game.
01:22Now we lose more than win, so it's more difficult to win than lose.
01:25But maybe one day we're going to win, but always we're winning and nothing unfortunate.
01:28After we were not able, for the way we defend two actions against Crystal Palace, but Crystal Palace was there, they played really, really good.
01:36And after United, we know how we end when it was there already.
01:40And having that position, that momentum that, yeah, we can win.
01:45Yeah, but how, and after, and after.
01:47And for that you need sort of stability and balance that unfortunately we don't have.
01:54You mentioned some of the reasons and the injuries and the difficulties getting things going.
01:59Has this difficult run gone on for longer than you could possibly imagine?
02:06You could, sorry?
02:07Has this difficult run gone on for longer than you could imagine realistically?
02:11Yeah, yeah, of course.
02:13Always we win a lot of games and titles.
02:15I always thought, am I going to lose games?
02:17Sometimes we win 30 or 40 games or 10 games and we draw one and one lose one.
02:22And remember, what happened? Why I lose a game?
02:24So it's football.
02:25Of course, I could thought where the season start for different season and little details.
02:31That I had in my mind.
02:34I said, well, it will be a tough season.
02:36But I didn't expect.
02:37I didn't expect in that way, to be honest.
02:42Okay.
02:43How do other players feel psychologically?
02:45They're just not used to being in this situation.
02:47How do other players feel?
02:49I learn of that.
02:50I learn, they learn.
02:52And I do focus Everton.
02:53So we cannot think about much, much longer than that.
02:58So we lose another game and you have to think about it.
03:00What do you have to do in the next and against winning?
03:04So I'm here to losing.
03:05I give you my answer where I think.
03:07But we don't have defense.
03:08I don't have defense.
03:09I said, and that's when you lose a lot of games.
03:11It's a business.
03:12You have to win.
03:13This team showed that never, ever.
03:15It was a team that is consistent for as long as much that we have.
03:19And now we are the other side of that.
03:21Yeah, we break all the records.
03:22We broke all the records.
03:23Now we install another record.
03:25So in the other side, that is the truth.
03:27So we don't have that.
03:28I have to find a way.
03:29I said in United.
03:30I have to find a way.
03:32I have to find for and the way we play.
03:34Diagnosis against United.
03:35How little presence we have in the final third.
03:38We try to add more people there.
03:40And but in that position.
03:42So sometimes everything it's harder.
03:45But the players have to be okay, guys.
03:47We tried because at the end.
03:49At the end, it's just a game.
03:51And we come in wrong.
03:53Yeah, you can win, lose games.
03:56We continue being the same.
03:57We can change things.
03:58But that is just a game.
04:00So and I have to read it.
04:02And that we deal it when we won a lot.
04:04Deal it with that.
04:05So well, it's exceptional.
04:06We are dealing that.
04:07But it was just a game.
04:08That now is a game.
04:09That we are living the part like we didn't expect.
04:12I didn't live personally.
04:14And I don't know what will be the outcome after that.
04:20So life gives you that chance.
04:25Okay, I have to deal it.
04:26Will we be able or not?
04:27I hope so.
04:28I'm dealing as much as I want.
04:31But the reality is completely different.
04:34Okay, thank you.