Guardiola insists that Manchester City has a ‘bright future’ despite Real Madrid and Liverpool
Pep Guardiola insists that Manchester City still has a “bright future” despite another disappointing defeat against Liverpool.
Premier League champion in the last four seasons, City now sits 20 points behind Sunday’s opponents on Etihad who now seem to steal their crown after a 2-0 win.
Guardiola Mizago Week also saw them crashing from the Champions League in Real Madrid in the middle of the week, and their star players have gone through for years, which have failed to reach the high standards they have set in recent years.
While the Catalan boss, who will remain in City at least another season, suggested that this team needs renovation, he is convinced that the club is well located to be raised to Liverpool standards in the future.
Guardiola told Sky Sports: “If you lose, you have to lose the way we lost today. I saw many things that this club has a bright future with the players we have.
“Apart from Kevin de Bruyne and maybe Nathan Akea, all players are so young. What the club decides the next for the future, there is a bright future for this club in the coming years.
“Everyone knows that the part will be here next season for older players, but we have to build for the next step. The time of time is raised.
“Even with the amount of absences, we played well. They break the lines and can break behind you.
“They really threaten, but we bring them and all we missed is that in the last third it depends on the talent to get dribbling or shoot at the right time. From there we build for the future.
“We are far away. We will see in the future. What we did in the previous seasons is good, but now we are far from them. We played with a personality that was really good.”
Guardiola: We played very well
The city’s performance on Sunday afternoon was far from their worst this season, but he never looked like Arne Slot’s sides, who looked in control as soon as Dominic Szoboszlai doubled the lead in the 37th minute after Momahed Salah opener.
Guardiola was pleased with the performance, but said they lacked the additional level they needed to beat the team of Liverpool caliber.
He added, “We played very well. We may have missed more productivity in the recording, but we played against a fantastic team. Maybe it was 50-50 at the beginning and we couldn’t turn.
“The second half, they defended themselves very deep. We did something we didn’t try for many games, which was that we brought them to their box and tried to beat them there.
“The tactic was to arrive in the last third and line, and that happened a lot, but we didn’t score. The next one missed a little to the IS crosses it is almost impossible to do because of their size. We couldn’t find the next step.”
