Pep Guardiola
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He was happy for the goal and that's all.
Yeah, for both.
It's not easy to concede a goal when we control the game.
Of course, Arsenal is a good team, but especially in the second half, we cannot deny the score.
The last minutes of the first half helped us a lot, but we read much better in the second half where were the spaces and we put the ball more outside, like they defend a lot of people inside.
and we created a lot of shoots and crosses by the lines.
Really good performance against a top team and three more points.
Well, in the first half they were so tight, so deep, and the spaces were so difficult to find outside the second half.
Like I said, I'm a little bit more jammed, the last minutes as well, so the spaces between the lines was a little bit easier.
But I think attacking midfielders, Gondogan and Dinho, and the position, the holding midfielders, they played really good and, OK, we did a good game.
Well, I think he's a guy, at the end, he can play in that position like a central defender.
He has the condition, he's strong in the air, he's so intelligent, he's backwards, he's fast, quick player going back, he's aggressive.
And when he sees the game in front of him, he has the ability to drive, to put the balls inside, outside, a lot of switch-off plays.
And we need a player who can play back four but at the same time who can play in the middle to have an extra guy, an extra player and make more passes.
And especially because they play with two strikers, if we attack with the full backs at the same time, they kill us in their own counter-attack.
And that's why we're more protected with three players in the back.
No, I don't have to discover anything about that.
Everybody knows the importance of how he fights.
So I think it's incredible.
I know he's not putting his body in a tendency to run like Gabriel, for example, or Bernardo or the other ones, but he tried to do absolutely everything.