Pep Guardiola reacts to Manchester City’s frustrating 0-0 draw with Southampton and commented on Erling Haaland’s return to action in the game
St Mary’s, Southampton, UK
St Mary’s, Southampton, UK
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00:00He seems to involve Erling more when Jeremy came on in the second half.
00:08Do you feel like it's a power in your battle with the wingers rather than the backs?
00:16In games like today they play, yeah, maybe.
00:19In other games maybe, maybe not.
00:22But of course Erling needs people to deliver balls to him.
00:27It doesn't matter, it comes from wingers or full-backs or position attacking midfielders
00:32or guys that can do the ball, that's the truth.
00:35And Phil has had a difficult year after such a career last year.
00:39Is he just kind of lacking that confidence?
00:43He's not easy. Of course he's a type of game like Phil assists,
00:47you know, breaking down for his talents, ball spaces for the shoots,
00:51for an assist, for the intuition, right to the box.
00:54But today we make a good game.
00:57I think in the middle and the first half was a little bit out,
01:00away from the position should be, it's close to the box, close to Erling,
01:04because at the end the score goes there, you have to be there,
01:06it was there, but the second half was more active,
01:08there were more players there and Kevin with his talent make some balls,
01:13some delivered balls there in the balls that we had the chances,
01:16unfortunately we couldn't score.
01:18Was it difficult to bring McAtee off at half-time?
01:22Sorry?
01:23Was it difficult to bring McAtee off at half-time?
01:25Difficult for me?
01:26Yeah, it was quite well recently.
01:28Yeah, and difficult for the players that didn't play,
01:30they were even selected and was in the bench.
01:32Always I'm thinking for the guys who don't play,
01:35for the guys who are not there, but in that moment we need a winger
01:39in that position, more there in that ball.
01:41I thought that Rico in that position in the attacking midfielder,
01:43he moved in smaller spaces really good, he arrived in the right tempo.
01:47It was not easy, it was not easy because we defend a lot,
01:50a lot, a lot of players there in that situation,
01:52he's bringing, go back and that'd be talent to put some balls,
01:56some shoot and today we didn't find more often,
01:59we didn't sometimes, but no more often that was.
02:02Might the performance today from the starters and the guys you brought on
02:06change your mind for the FA Cup final team that weekend?
02:09No, I didn't think about it, the priority is the Premier League,
02:13much more the FA Cup, and now we have one week,
02:16today is Saturday and the next Saturday we're training,
02:19we have one or two days off to refresh,
02:21and after we want to prepare the final one game at a time,
02:24and we will see how is the team, the way we want to play,
02:29and we'll decide during the week.
02:31Thank you guys.
02:32Okay, thank you.