A crazy feat! Since December 2023, Manchester City had not lost a single match in the Premier League and remained on a crazy run of 26 wins for six draws. But yesterday, Bournemouth, who had already defeated Arsenal in mid-October (2-0), managed to bring down the champion by winning 2-1 at home thanks to goals from Semenyo and Evanilson. A prestigious success against the Citizens who had to deal with the absence of numerous executives, which inevitably annoyed Pep Guardiola, the Mancunian coach.
“We couldn’t train due to injuries”
After the match, he made a sad observation following this setback: “We did not manage to match the intensity, we were not able to win all the situations with long balls. In the game , for many reasons they were stronger than us. We have players with pace and the other players lack pace because we haven't been able to train because of injuries. what it is (with injuries). We have few players with a lot of minutes and a lot of players without minutes, which makes the balance a little uncomfortable. We played well against the Spurs, but today we. We couldn't manage their intensity and that's why we lost the match,” he said, a bit fatalistic. In the meantime, he will quickly have to get back on track because he faces Sporting Portugal on Tuesday in the Champions League.
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To summarize
Pep Guardiola has spoken out after his team's unexpected home defeat to Bournemouth. “We have few players with a lot of minutes and a lot of players without minutes, which makes the balance a little uncomfortable,” he explained.
