Guardiola on Utd - city derby bore draw and Utd fans lack of class
06/04/2025
Old trafford, Manchester, Uk
06/04/2025
Old trafford, Manchester, Uk
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00:00Evening guys, take a show of hands, come to the menu as you can.
00:15Was that a 0.1 or 0.2 drop?
00:19It is, of course it would be better to win, but all travel is all travel.
00:26Always you have been a good performance and always united as a transition team,
00:32before we rise for Arnaccio and play quick.
00:35Robbenos want to try to make a good build-up, a good process.
00:38I think we defended really well.
00:40Defensively, of course, all the situations were linked with Hoylun,
00:44a switch of play and after they are dangerous,
00:46and especially when you lose the ball in the positions where we are not good.
00:50They could run and it was dangerous for that, but always we had our chances.
00:55In the second half, the first 10-15 minutes, it was our best moment,
00:58so nothing to say.
01:00The fact that I saw many good things in the last two games,
01:04and today again in terms of the passion without the ball,
01:07that we lost many times this season for many reasons.
01:11But with the ball, our strength was always in the positional and right spots,
01:16and we lost it today.
01:17We were not in the right position to hurt them more than we hurt them.
01:21But it's fine, we take the point and move forward.
01:42No, it depends.
01:43It depends on how they play.
01:44I played with Wingers last game,
01:46I played with a lot of midfielders, players against Bournemouth.
01:49Today also we played with two strikers a little bit more wider than central,
01:54so it depends when I wake up in the morning.
02:09Yeah, I never lost it.
02:13Yesterday we were training, we tried to practise one concept
02:17to try to hurt them.
02:22We played many times in many years,
02:24teams defend 5-4-1, lose the ball and run.
02:27So we knew that they make high pressing,
02:29and after that they are able to defend so deep and make the transition.
02:35It has been since I arrived here nine years ago.
02:38We want to try to impose from on and off and all the process,
02:42but I think we defend really well.
02:44At home, our home game when we lost 1-2 was completely different.
02:48They make better process than they have done today.
02:52But it was more for the fact, you know,
02:56you have to play in one tempo and be in the position
02:58and have to accelerate the game.
03:00And we could not accelerate it because we were not in the right position.
03:03And that's why today we missed a little bit our tempo,
03:07create more chances.
03:08Of course, Phil had one clear, two or three shoots from Kevin,
03:12one from Omar, and of course they had the chance, especially in transition.
03:17But I think it's fair enough, so one point and move on.
03:21Just asking, Phil had a few chances over the course of the game.
03:26Sorry?
03:27Phil had a few chances over the course of the game.
03:29Obviously, Darby is a little bit behind, but maybe across the line.
03:33What are the chances? To him?
03:35Lack of class.
03:37But it's not United, it's the people, you know.
03:40The people is…
03:42We are so exposed.
03:43The people who is now in the screen, in the World Football Managers,
03:49owners and football players especially.
03:53It's honestly, I don't know, understanding the mind of the people,
03:56being involved with the man from Phil, being involved with that.
03:59It's lack of category, class, and they should be ashamed.
04:04But it's what it is.
04:05So, it happens everywhere, I would say.
04:07Not just in the UK, everywhere.
04:10Pep, how concerned are you about Champions League qualification?
04:14Nothing. Right now, nothing.
04:16Eight games, Crystal Palace, we'll go for it.
04:19You're still very confident, are you?
04:21I prefer to have 10 more points or 12 more points.
04:24In the previous season, there were five, six or seven games left,
04:27we were very qualified.
04:28But it's what it is.
04:29So, it's all transfer.
04:31Always it's difficult for the derby, so we fought and we were there.
04:35And the players gave everything.
04:37It's just the lecture a little bit that we should attack a little bit more fluidity.
04:41We miss it because the people say,
04:43we have to move more.
04:44No, we have to move less.
04:46Move less.
04:48Are you seeing enough of City this season
04:51to make you think you can be back to what you were next season?
04:55Next season, I'm not concerned right now.
04:57Not one second.
04:58So, I'm just concerned about recovering Crystal Palace,
05:02and after the games we had at Everton and Aston Villa,
05:04FA Cup semi-finals.
05:05All the games ahead of us, to win, win, win.
05:07That is what we're going to try to do.
05:11Do you think you needed more offensive aggression from Mateus?
05:18He can become a good right-back for the physicality.
05:20I think he's not a player to play in the middle
05:22because he's not enough clever in the composure.
05:26He has incredible skills.
05:28He's learning a lot.
05:30The full-backs always have a big mistake,
05:33is when the cross for the far post, where you are,
05:35always they are sleeping.
05:37And he defends really well at two or three crosses,
05:39like Bruno put in the far post with Durgu.
05:43His attention has something, the physicality do it.
05:46But, yeah, he can play in that position.
05:49He helps us a lot.
05:50When you start in the season,
05:51and you tell me if you're going to play Mateus or right-back,
05:54and Nicolette back,
05:56you would tell me what I'm talking about.
05:58But this is what it is.
06:00Manu Kanji is coming back.
06:02Of course, you have two young central defenders.
06:04But the last two games, three games,
06:06in the back four today, again, they were excellent.
06:09Ruben was incredible, Josco as well.
06:11Nico, except the last 20 minutes, was tired
06:14because he's young.
06:16Playing with three or four days is always new for him.
06:19But he played really, really good.
06:21And, yeah, we built from that.
06:26Obviously, it's been a difficult season
06:29for the team and individuals
06:31and there's lots of different reasons too.
06:33Just back on Phil again,
06:34he's had such an impact on this fixture
06:37for several seasons,
06:38especially last year, I just don't think...
06:40Just today, he looks like a player
06:42and has for a long time this season.
06:45He looks like he's carrying you away,
06:47he looks like he's lacking a lot of confidence.
06:50No, I'm not agreeing.
06:52When the team is not playing in the level,
06:54the standard we had looks like,
06:56and everyone looks like, you know, not what we were.
07:00No doubt, I see every training session,
07:01the passion they put, his smile on his face.
07:03This is what I want.
07:04His smile on his face and playing like...
07:07Of course, the impact has not been,
07:08but not from Phil.
07:09If you see the numbers in the last four, five, six years,
07:11the many players that are here,
07:12in terms of goal assists,
07:13this season we dropped incredible.
07:15In all of them.
07:16It's not one.
07:17One will be easy.
07:18It's all of them.
07:19And that's why we were struggling, you know,
07:23to create or win games and so on.
07:25But the quality is there.
07:26And sometimes, you know,
07:29in a long career,
07:30always you have seasons that you are not, you know.
07:32Maybe in a season,
07:33right at the peak,
07:35in terms of the best player of the Premier League.
07:38He won the Premier League in the last games.
07:40Last game against, you remember,
07:42was Ham.
07:43Won the game with two goals.
07:45And his impact was incredible.
07:47And he will be back.
07:48He will be back.
07:49And you know how fouled.
07:51And at the end,
07:52had the chances,
07:53when shooting the first half,
07:54these chances that normally feel,
07:57you make when the ball is in the net.
08:00And the control was not perfect.
08:03Or the defender was quick.
08:04It's happened.
08:05But now it's not about the judge here and there.
08:07Okay, we are who we are that season.
08:09We knew it.
08:10And okay,
08:11FA Cup semi-finals,
08:12eight games left.
08:13And everyone is going to give everything.
08:16Seeing and learning for the guys
08:18who played every single game.
08:19The guys who come from the bench.
08:21How we impact is in the game.
08:23And this kind of stuff,
08:24for the future decisions.
08:25It is going to do.
08:26Thank you guys.