Did Pep Get it Wrong in Madrid?
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Hello, hello everyone. TGIF and thank goodness we are serving up a fresh edition of ESPN FC. Some good Friday vibes to bring you into the weekend of football. I'm Alexis Yunus alongside Stevie Nicol who's got a cute little grin on Stevie and Ale Moreno. Later on we're going to be talking about Igor Tudor's spicy press conference. Here's to Ale. I tell you who is not grinning though, Igor Tudor. Like I said, we'll be talking about that. But to start things off, we are still talking about that big result for Real Madrid over Manchester City in the Champions League. It is the fixture that keeps on giving in Europe and it's one that Real Madrid, as you can see, have absolutely owned over the last couple of years.
This is City's third loss in their last four meetings. So Pep Guardiola has been on some Heavy criticism for the XI that he chose, but he backed his decision in his latest press conference. I cannot play the same XI, same XI, same XI in three days. That is not going to happen, of course, when you change it. But I'm not thinking about it. I truly believe otherwise it will not be possible. The amount of Premier Leagues we've won in the last years is not important in every single game. I have an opinion about the game at Madrid. completely on opinion and there's going to be change. So I would need mistakes of my own decisions on opinions, not about what happened, the results or whatever. I had my opinion and did very, very good things.
And the other ones, it would be better. Yeah, of course. And the emotion was involved in the moment that we have In the first half, especially the first 90, 20 minutes before the first goal, it was exceptional. I would say one of the best we have played that in terms of we come here to make a threat and we were threatening. But after that, the emotions come, concede one goal immediately. You know, I lost many times in Champions League on stage, many, many, many times and have been... massacred and decisions and what happened so it's not first time and I know but in the same time still I'm here in that position and until the last day I will take the positions like and I can argue why the decision was the team selection.
I will not convince you because we lost. All right, now you know that any time Manchester City lose, we like to call it a mini-crisis, and we cannot pass up the opportunity to throw salt in Natum Anua's wounds. So Natum Anua is joining us right now. Natum, I know you got your defensive grin on, but you heard from Pep Guardiola right there. It was actually the first time he has played this XI together, which is a bit surprising in such a high-profile, high-stakes game. So do you think he was caught overthinking it all? Not necessarily. Obviously the game went nowhere near the way that they would have liked but I think he made a good point that at the start of the game it did look well and I think himself and Bernardo Silva spoke afterwards about the moment that first goal was conceded then we saw a different version of that Man City side and it let some of the emotion and the occasion get to them which in some ways is surprising considering how many times they've been to that stage in playing against Real Madrid not just in the league phase but knockouts as well.
And I know some people can be critical of the team that he selected and say, oh, you know, it's the first time they've done it. But who are the players that should have played instead? You know, you've got someone in Ait Nouri who had been playing well recently at left-back, but for the majority of the season, it had been Nico O'Reilly.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:49
2
What were the key moments in Real Madrid's victory over Manchester City?
4:49–6:45
3
How did Pep Guardiola's team selection impact the game?
6:45–12:41
4
What are the criticisms surrounding Pep's tactical decisions?
12:41–13:20
5
What does Nedum Onuoha think about Manchester City's performance?
13:20–1:01:28
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