Pep Guardiola’s unexpected reaction

This evening, all the French and English media are already salivating over the next Champions League duel on January 22 between Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester City. The Rouge et Beu are 25th in the C1 standings, while the Cityzens, after their defeat at Juventus, are in 22nd place. Two days before the end of the league phase, the clash between these two giants in great danger promises to be exciting. But on the City side, we will quickly have to find the solution to get out of this XXL crisis.

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The 2023 European champions have only won one of their last ten matches. Worse, they lost seven (for two draws). Pep Guardiola has never experienced such a situation since he took charge of the Skyblues. But this evening, if Ilkay Gündogan gave a rant against his teammates, the Spanish manager preferred to pour into positivism at the microphone of TNT Sports. Despite a completely disorganized team, Guardiola found that his men had performed well.

Pep is proud of his men

“We miss the last pass, the last action and we concede few goals. I am very proud of these players, they gave everything and they tried. We are playing very well. We didn’t lose many balls and we created chances. You know, against Italian teams, they defend deep and are so compact that they are the masters of these situations. We have two matches, we need a victory. The games against Feyenoord and Inter gave us problems, this will help us appreciate what we have done and what we will do in the future.”he declared, before continuing.

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“I feel like we know exactly what’s wrong.” If you look at most matches, even today, we didn’t play badly, we created chances, we just didn’t score. We know what’s wrong, it’s just a matter of finding a way to turn things around, because even if we don’t get results, we don’t feel like we’re far away from them. Until we find that trigger, it will be difficult. The only thing we can do now is each player has to question themselves, do better, how they can individually sacrifice more to contribute to the team so that we can collectively get back on track”. And what better way than a Manchester derby next weekend to see if the message has gotten through.