Manchester City rediscovered the heart and soul in Bournemouth, says Guardiola | FA CUP
Pep Guardiola said that Manchester City had recovered some of their heart and soul missing while advanced to the seventh semifinal of the England Cup in a row with a 2-1 victory in Bournemouth.
The director of the city, whose team was attracted to face Nottingham Forest, rely on what his “legendary” players called ” – Kevin de Bruyne, Bernardo Silva and Ilkay Gündogan – in the victory of his team on the southern coast.
What Guardiola heard made the difference, however, was the collective attitude that, since then City Lost 2-1 in Bournemouth In the Premier League on November 2, he was found in too much occasions.
“We talked a lot about the game we deservedly lost here Bournemouth“Said Guardiola.” It was then that we started going to the bottom of our season this season. We saw many images (from the game) that were not in our standard, nowhere. There are minimum requirements that we must show, respect for your partner, you have to make the effort. And today we did it.
“In this season we played multiple games like the one against Bournemouth, which is why we didn’t deserve more. The most important thing today is that the players learned the lesson.
“I told them that we cannot accept a performance like the one here in the championship when people traveled for five hours. What we missed this season was a heart, soul; the desire from how we had done for many, many years. For a manager the most important thing is to recover this passion. In the future.
Guardiola was asked why the heart had disappeared during what was the hardest season of his nine in the city. “I will write it in my memories,” he said. “They were many things. Not just one. And put PEP first on the list. I should have made decisions that I did not make at the right time.
“I love to play like today. If Bournemouth pass, congratulations. But I like to lose this way and we have not lost many times in this way. A few weeks ago In Nottingham Forest (In the 1-0 defeat of the championship), did the team play like today? No. We hope that in the end (of the season) we can change, learn and prepare for the next season. “
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Guardiola was full of praise for Nico O’reilly, who came from a half -time substitute to create the objectives for Erling Haaland and another substitute, Omar Marmoush. Guardiola joked that O’reilly should have started now in the semifinal. The manager also said he had no information on the injury that Haand forced to turn on.
