Entangled in a terrible series of one victory in 13 games with Manchester City, Pep Guardiola hopes to raise his head this Sunday on the Leicester lawn (3:30 p.m.). In After Foot on RMC, Julien Laurens and Damien Perquis returned to the current period and the dismay of the Spanish coach.
Coincidentally with the calendar, Pep Guardiola will lead his 500th match on the Manchester City bench this Sunday, when they travel to Leicester (3:30 p.m.). Perhaps a symbol to cling to to finally raise their heads, after an incredible series of only one victory in 13 matches over the last two months. At a press conference, the Spaniard was, as always, quite optimistic about the ability of his players to find their way back to success.
“He is in character, there is nothing else to say other than to be combative, to finally want to put an end to this crisis, explained Julien Laurens in After Foot, Saturday evening. they are not going to win at Leicester, we can't do anything more for them, even with injuries, even if there is a crisis of confidence, even if they have had problems in recruitment… If you don't. I'm not going to win at Leicester, a team completely in the street, I don't I don't even know what we can say.”
For Guardiola, 'it's new to be under pressure all the time'
It would then be one more disappointment for the Cityzens, who have already experienced a lot in this series of 13 matches: a 4-0 defeat at home against Tottenham, a lesson in efficiency 4-1 on the field of Sporting Lisbon , an improbable comeback against Feyenoord, coming back from 0-3 to 3-3, or a home derby lost to the wire by conceding two goals in the final minutes. So many episodes which led us to question Pep Guardiola.
“We know that he has this character, that he can lose his temper very quickly when we question his coaching or the level of his players,” emphasizes Julien Laurens about the Spanish coach. But for him who has never used to losing, all this is new, it's new to be under pressure all the time, to have these questions about his level, the fact that he can't find solutions, that he fails to re-mobilize its players…”
Having fallen to 7th place in the Premier League, the Cityzens are now far from the fight for the title. An unprecedented situation for Guardiola. “What concerns me is the annoyance that emanates from him,” notes Damien Perquis. “The scratches on his face… For me it’s someone who is worried from the inside , it eats him up, it eats him up to find himself in a situation where he, who was the best, no longer achieves anything. He perhaps has a lower percentage of managerial quality, in the end.
