Guardiola hoping City can get back to winning ways at Sporting Lisbon

Hi Pet. I think two years ago in the last 16 you played sporting here and beat them five nil. I'm guessing you don't expect it to be as easy or as sort of, you know, easy as that was or or you know, what sort of challenge are you looking at? I don't think so. Why not? I don't know. I never think before the game we're going to win four or five, never never. So it's a different game. It's there was knockout the stage. He's a different statement and our momentum for the lack, lack of many players completely different That was in that time. May I just ask you, you've lost your last two games. Is that just what can happen in an up and down season or or you've got deeper concerns? It's different competition. We lost one game and yeah, we'll have to come back to to winning games, of course. But we are in early November. So many things is going to happen. I mean, we've been talking about Ruben Amarin for a while. What what do you see in this sporting team? Is it an opponent who has to deal with it tomorrow and come up with a way to win? What what is the main strengths of this team? But play quite similar like we faced two years ago. The pattern is so clear. I think they they use the pole position from from back a little bit more than before. Before they have a strike or two years ago with bulimia that was most linked to him. Now Gorkarez is quite similarly, but his moments in behind are so, so dangerous. Pace and the controls and a good yeah link inside a good switch of plays, a good movement in behind for the people in France. It's quite similar patterns to Le Peg to see the change the, you know, the the players, but with the same manager have the same mentality and, you know, winning the Portuguese league after 20 years years ago and last season Duke again, that means how good his job has done here. Yeah, I Pep. There was some footage earlier from the training session of Erling Harlan sort of rolling on the floor. Is he is he he's OK? Is he no problem? Is he is he sort of fit to play? We have to occupy the news, you know, 24 hours. The news you have to make all the news as possible. So that's the reason why does he does he need a break anytime soon? Is he OK playing playing sort of every game? I don't think so. Maybe international games can rest. You said about the momentum of the of the players at the moment. How many of the squad that you've got here do you think are fully fit? Well, most of them. Mano and Nathan are still with problems. Kevin is getting better, is adding sessions without less, less, less pain. So we feel that he feels more, more comfortable. That is a good new, excellent news for him and for all of us. And Kyle as well. Problems with his knee since he was with the national team. Yeah, the rest. Doku always had a little bit of problems in his muscular issues. Savino's getting better with his ankle. Yeah. The rest we're fine. And you said, obviously we're in early November and bad results tend to happen in October, November with City is it? Is it important to sort of remember what you've done in the past? Me and Jack? I know our standards, right? I know our standards. So yes, we lost one game in the primary. Maybe we're going to win. We'll lose against Brighton and against Tottenham and Liverpool and all the games. Yeah, but you lost one game. We are the two points behind Liverpool as a top class team we have. We've done quite decent in the Champions League. I would say really good because the game against Interlove, we drove, we play a really, really, really good. So I understand. So I know the people you expect to win 38 games for 50 every game and win the travel every season because this is our standards. But this is not happened. I didn't happen in the beginning of the season. That will not happen. And the reason why it's more difficult because we have a lot of absence because during the season sometimes there are seasons that sometimes happen that to win the travel you have to be, everything has to be in the same page. No injuries and good momentums drop points in the open at the right moments. And this is not possible this season because Oscar was the most important player in Preciso was injured and we miss him a lot. Jack is not again still feed some some problems and and you know the situation for Rodri, the best player in the world or nominated the best player is not here for the rest of the season. When this happened. We know, we know that we are going to struggle and that is the point is be able except that we are going to struggle and it's fine. So it's really fine. So it's will be every game more, more difficult that we had in the previous seasons that everything was smooth, there wasn't problems. So that the teams is not a situation that always is the same. So there is up and downs for depends of personal reasons for the injuries because we won a lot, because we won 6 primaries in seven years and the situations change and this is a reality as might you accept that in the middle class for the Premier League rise unbelievably. So the top class teams always was there United, Chelsea, Man City, Liverpool, Arsenal, last year's at Newcastle, Tottenham, you know these teams. But after you see Fulham, you see Brentford, you see Bournemouth, you see sorry, I would say most of the team Luke how suffered against Wolves and and Southampton. So now the middle the teams like was in the 8/10/11 until they are really, really, really, really good strong teams. So that's why every team is more difficult and you have to accept that they will be difficult. But this is the challenge. This is is maintained there being there like we are and at the end we'll see if we are able to arrive in the last month like every season stages with a chances to fight for the title. This is the reason and the players know it because the players fell it in the last month to month. The quality of the teams, That's why I'm really impressed and really happy that that we are still there and how we compete. Bournemouth deserves to win. By far we're better. Yes, in that day the three to five Bournemouth was better. Team deserves to win. That doesn't mean we are bad. We are a bad team, we are poor, we are not going to win the titles or fight for the titles. That doesn't mean so the teams when you lose some time, it's because the opponents can be better. Why don't accept it? Not tomorrow. We have to improve on the last game getting better and hopefully it's going to happen. Edison's been very good this season. But you've used Stefan Ortega a few times in the in the Champions League. Is is he going to play tomorrow? And how difficult is it having two goalkeepers that want to play every week and are this good? That's really good. So we need we need in in a lot of positions double triple players because this is so long many games and we need it. But listen, Stefan against sports can make incredible save when they play the two games. the Champions League played really good. But we have to admit. So in the games like we were 10 down and they make a two or three saves to avoid the 20 and help us to, you know, come back and win that games go to power in a little please. Thank you. Thanks. Hello Pep. Sorry to go off topic a little bit. There's some big news from the Premier League today. Edu is stepping down. Obviously he's played an important role in turning Arsenal into a title contender. Is that a set back for Arsenal and a boost for their rivals? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know how they work. I didn't know. It's everything. He did an incredible job. But it's a question for Miguel. When is the press conference? I don't know. I can ask you when cheeky, I can ask you Google Vienna because it's my club. But Arsenal, I don't know. I'm not there. And, and today Amrim said that since that five nil you've improved as a coach and he's improved as a coach, but you're still ahead of him. Do you think that's right? I don't know. I don't know. I'm pretty sure I'm agree with him that he's an excellent manager and improve a lot. So but that's happened when you add a lot of times with the same club, same team when the directional sport directors go with the same page. And I had the feeling from outside that will be Anna with Ruben was they were really, really close and they make a really good decision. So, and I'm pretty sure I'm better manager now that I want to start 40 years ago just for the fact for the experience. You live a lot of experience good and once and you learn from that, you learn from the players, you learn from anything. So it's not it's not the issue here at the end. I never pretend to be better than the other one, never pretend to be more success than the other one. What I pretend is to to my team and the play where the game we're going to play, play better than the opening and deserve to play deserve sorry to win the game. You know, this is only my target and at the end is a consequence for this kind of things.