Pep Guardiola reacts to Manchester City’s frustrating 0-0 draw with Southampton which leaves their Champions League qualification hopes in some doubt
St Mary’s, Southampton, UK
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00:00Good evening, guys. We can take a show of hands, please. That would be helpful. And we'll set an bag up towards the end of the 10.30 of Sunday evening. Somewhere to start?
00:15Yep, at the back.
00:17So, Pep, I want to ask you about Omar Marbush and the chance that he had at the end of the match. It was a decent chance. He basically hit the crossfire. But he wasn't really that much lucky. But how do you see him in your tactics? Is he going to be an upper nine or like he's going to play on the wing in the future?
00:45Because now Haaland is back from injury.
00:47They can play together. They played this season before the injury from Erling. He's a player who has to move close to the box. The impact has been really good since he arrived. The impact today was really good.
01:02You should play more minutes because the fact that his creativity is close to the box is really important.
01:10I'm from all in Egypt. One last question to you about Marbush. How do you see him adapting in life in England? He came from the German league, which is a different style from the English league. How do you see him?
01:27I think really good. I think he had done really well with the team. He's well-respected, beloved, so he had done really good.
01:34Thank you. Thanks, Pep.
01:36You're welcome.
01:37Have you been on a good run since the last international break? Are you surprised by what you've seen today? Frustrated, angry?
01:44About?
01:45Today, the performance, the result?
01:47No. The result, of course. We missed a good opportunity. Today winning, we know that. The defence is so, so deep. The first half, after 50-20 minutes, I realised we need the strikers,
02:01the strikers, high wingers especially, to break them, so I didn't expect it was so defensive. We could not take the rhythm.
02:08Ramsdale takes time, you know, every time, and the second half was better than the last 30 minutes. We had a lot of chances.
02:14It's difficult. Always is difficult when a team is playing that way. Long balls, you cannot press.
02:20Sometimes, when they want to make a build-up, we could regain the balls and make a transition. We had done two or three with Kevin, Jeremy and Erling.
02:28For nothing, we could not convert. So, we have three games, one fair cap, two games, and until the last, like I didn't expect differently from a month ago, this fight until the end.
02:44Erling made some comments about maybe a lack of hunger before this game. Is that anything you saw out there today at all, or was it just the frustration of the ways I've had to play?
02:53I didn't see that at all. So, the team is behaving really, really well. Today we missed that, you know, the cross, the second ball,
03:04one play in the 80-year box, dribble and shoot, second balls, one set pieces, this kind of stuff.
03:12We missed a little bit, and unfortunately, we could not score a goal that we needed.
03:16Are you still a little bit nervous about top five? Sorry?
03:21Are you still a little bit nervous when you look at...
03:23I knew that until the end we should fight, yeah.
03:27So, you think it's going to go down to the last game?
03:29With the result today, yeah. Yeah, definitely.
03:33Obviously, you were going to say that Ruben Diaz was pretty critical of the way Sam had to approach the game today.
03:39No, no, no, no, no, no. Absolutely not. They can do whatever they want.
03:45So, for many years here, we faced them in different approaches,
03:50and they decided being relegated to play in that way.
03:52So, we have to, it belongs to us or it's in our duty to break them.
03:56This is what we have to do.
03:58So, in that terms, it's not...
04:00It's many times we played five in the back or six,
04:03and the striker go in the 80-year box, defend our holding midfielder,
04:07and that is, there's no space, it's difficult.
04:10We had to break in one transition and one creativity,
04:13and the free kicks and the reactions, and we had the chances.
04:17When you review the chances for nothing, we could not score, and it happened.
04:22So, now we prepare the final, and after, with the last time, Bournemouth and next, Fulham.
04:30Okay. So, I've had to play in a very different way earlier in the season.
04:35Obviously, it's very effective today.
04:37The season we've seen pretty quiet teams go up, come down, get relegated.
04:41Do you think going forward you're going to face more teams setting up like the songs that have happened today?
04:46I don't know. There are teams depending on the mentality, the manager, the players, so I don't know.
04:51But I would say in the nine years I'm here, I face these type of teams a lot of times.
04:57So, it's not the first time we face that.
04:59So, it's a question of patience, don't consider transition, be a lot of patience.
05:03And, of course, the quality in the final third of our players is when you solve that.
05:10And, today, we had the chances, especially in the single half and within the scope.
05:17In terms of the way Erling Arlen fit in, the way you've been setting up your team,
05:22how did you think you did and how did it fit?
05:25Today, it was massively important to have Erling with the team, with players.
05:30In this kind of games, you have to move them with good actions and bring players in the box.
05:37So, and put their front crosses and second balls and go there.
05:42So, this is the only way.
05:46Because they don't lift, they don't come up, they don't build up.
05:50All the time they have passes one ball, they lose, they come back again.
05:53They lose, they come back again, 18 players.
05:55Sometimes they leave second ball, you win the ball, you can run.
05:58And, after you make, you know, in transition.
06:00But, it's few, few opportunities.
06:02And, that is what I'm saying.
06:03It's move them a little bit better.
06:05If Doku has three players against him, you break a pass to the other player.
06:10And, that player go, attack, shoot, another cross, another action.
06:13Because, we have four or five players here.
06:15I had to go quick, another one.
06:17Did you need the talent?
06:18For one player go to shoot the cross.
06:20And, after the second ball, they shoot again.
06:22And, we had the chances.
06:23We had.
06:24One action from Sabino with the header and control.
06:26And, one pass from Erling, from Nathie, from Niko.
06:29And, I don't know, Sabino and Jeremy was there.
06:32Two or three actions with the header.
06:34And, it was the four or five, the pass of transition, Jeremy to Erling.
06:39The control was a little bit long.
06:41We had.
06:42We had the chances to break them.
06:44But, unfortunately, we could not score.
06:46We didn't concede one shot on target.
06:47And, they didn't do much.
06:50Okay.
06:51So, the way they play, we have to accept it.
06:53We have to accept it.
06:54It belonged to Simon, to his assistant coaches, and decided to do other things.
07:00There's nothing to say.
07:01I'm not agreeing with Ruben.
07:02So, we have to accept it.
07:04Last one.
07:05Erling's first game in five, six weeks.
07:08Do you think he needs more time to get used to the rhythm of the team again?
07:12Yeah, of course.
07:13Are you confident enough to put him in at the start?
07:16I'll have one week to think about it.
07:17I don't know.
07:18The truth is, I've been five weeks off, six weeks off.
07:24It's not like Phil, for example.
07:26Like Ossabino, like in two, three, four trying sessions.
07:30He's a big man.
07:32And, maybe, a little bit more time.
07:34But, it was really good to play today, 97 minutes.
07:37I could not expect to play as much.
07:39But, for the way they're playing, you know, they put the ball there.
07:43We need it.
07:44Just on Malmouch, you made a big impact when he came off the bench.
07:48Obviously, injuries have played a part here.
07:50But, I don't think you've started Haaland, De Bruyne and Malmouch in the same game yet.
07:55Is that possible to do that?
07:57To keep the balance?
07:58Yeah.
07:59The problem after is to keep the balance.
08:01You're right.
08:02So, the second half has started to differ in an approach defensively.
08:05And, I didn't like it.
08:06I had to change again to bring Bernard in the middle and feel outside.
08:10So, there's a balance.
08:11But, I didn't know this subject.
08:14But, yeah, three games left and we'll see what happens.
08:18OK?
08:19Sorry.
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