Manchester City, incredibly, with their 4-0 defeat against Tottenham last Saturday, has already lost five consecutive losses between his appearances in the Premier League, Carabao Cup and UEFA Champions League. So if Pep Guardiola fails to generate an immediate reaction, logically, he will say goodbye to the objectives set for the season, which are none other than to be crowned champion of both England and Europe.
However, with his most recent statements, in advance of the match with Feyenoord for the fifth day of the League Phase of the Champions League, The Catalan coach seems to have recognized that they are already out of the fight for the Premier League title (Liverpool, leader of the standings, is already eight points ahead).
”By our standards, this will be a bad season”warned Pep Guardiola at a press conference. And he added: ”We come from the top, so we will lose any type of comparison. But that’s nice. We deserve patience, we are defending a legacy that is difficult to maintain. We just need to focus on the next game.”.
On the other hand, he did not want to attribute the poor results to the lack of hunger of his players: ”It’s easy to say that after losing five games. It would be easy for me to blame his ambition, but I don’t think that’s our problem. We need to relax and keep a cool mind when doing the analysis, and take into account not only the performances, but also see if the players are punctual, if they take care of themselves and worry about the team…”.
With five consecutive defeats, Pep Guardiola completed the worst streak in his history as a coach.
In closing, he expressed that injuries may be part of the explanation for the string of defeats: ”This situation is normal after having won so much. The past has an influence on our lives, but we are still second in the Premier League. We are there. We are not being solid and regular enough, but I think that is because we have a lot of casualties. “You can get by with one or two, but we have a lot of important players missing.”.
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The decline in Erling Haaland’s numbers
Erling Haaland only scored two goals in Manchester City’s last seven Premier League games. And although it is clear that the team feels it, Pep Guardiola does not point to the Norwegian as guilty of the bad collective moment: ”It’s not Haaland’s fault. Without it we would have even more problems. “We have four or five wingers, but only one is available.”.
In that same sense, he added: ”Stones and Kovacic are the top scorers after Haaland, we need the attacking players to recover. We have to adapt to survive. We are lucky to have Haaland, he always has chances, and that is what I ask of him. He will score two or three goals in a row at some point like he used to do.”.
When does Manchester City play vs. Feyenoord?
Manchester City will host Feyenoord at the Etihad Stadium this Tuesday November 26 from 9:00 p.m. CETin one of the matches corresponding to matchday 5 of the League Phase of the UEFA Champions League.
