Pep Guardiola feels “job done” afterwards the five titles achieved by Manchester City in its historic 2023but he insists he has no problem accepting criticism when his team doesn’t win.
After winning the Premier, FA Cup, Champions League and European Super Cup, City lifted the Club World Cup on Friday after beating Brazilian Fluminense in the final (4-0), but In the Premier League, with one match left to play, they are in fifth place, though out of the Champions League positions. before visiting Everton tomorrow, Wednesday. The reigning champion has managed just one win in the last six rounds.
“Now we have everything”
“I have the feeling that the job is done,” Guardiola said today before the match at Goodison Park. “I thought about when we won the Champions League, but then I thought: ‘the Super Cup, we don’t have it, the World Cup, we don’t have it’. Now we have everything.”
On the other hand, the reality is different in City’s Premier League before also facing a difficult Christmas calendar. “When you don’t win, you have nothing, zero,” said Guardiola. “They wait around the corner. People say ‘you don’t take criticism,’ but it’s part of the job.”
Pep explained this idea: “If you are in the business of being a football coach, you have to accept that people will criticize you just because you didn’t win. OK, we have to try to win the next game.”
The memory of the Sextete with Barça
“What you’ve done in the past, no matter how much you win, is when they want you to fail. I felt it since the day we won the Sextete in Barcelona. But the titles we won were incredible,” recalls Guardiola, who in 2009, leading the Barça team, won the League, Cup, Champions League, Spanish Super Cup, European Super Cup and Club World Cup.
“People just give credit because we won. You have to look beyond that. “As soon as we don’t win, they will destroy everything.”, said Pep before launching a challenge to his rivals in all competitions. “But that’s the good thing, it’s okay. “We’ll go again and see what happens.”
A victory in six days
Since November 12, in the Premier, City have consecutively drawn against Chelsea (4-4), Liverpool (1-1), Tottenham (3-3), lost in their visit to Aston Villa (1-0), back to Luton (1-2), and played again at home against Crystal Palace (2-2).
Guardiola believes that his team played “incredibly well” in the drawn games, but because they did not turn those games into victories, he believes that The moment of the club is considered as “a disaster, a crisis, everything.”
However, he admitted that Aston Villa is “better”. when Unai Emery’s side beat them at Villa Park in early December.
Source: La Verdad
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