On the display against United, Guardiola added: “The first half was good – our build-up was correct, patient, and we attacked in the right moments”.
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“The second half was much better”.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic has preached patience when it comes to expectations surrounding Marcus Rashford, even though the experienced striker admits there will come a time when the youngster “will take over everything”. United pressed hard in the second half, but could not find the equaliser.
“The second half was an open game”. We were much more risky, we had our chances to equalise and who knows what could happen if we had equalised. When you have three on three, four on four, five on five, you have to take advantage because in the last minutes, anything can happen.
“We played good. We have the ball, we lose the ball, we win the ball again quickly”, Guardiola said after the match.
However, despite a handful of early dashes down the right-hand side of the Old Trafford sod, the Armenian global was fairly subdued overall and failed to make the much longed for impact he was expected to.
“What Claudio did was one of the best performances I’ve ever seen”, he told reporters. In football, it’s about how you react to mistakes – it shows character.
Nigeria worldwide Iheanacho, starting in place of the suspended Sergio Aguero, told Sky Sports: ‘It means it all to me.
“You need to be sharp the way you think and the way you play”.
It was an act of straw-clutching, although the Portuguese fully accepted City’s first-half superiority when he admitted he and his players got it wrong.
MANCHESTER, England (AP) – In the boldest call of his short time at Manchester City, Pep Guardiola jettisoned Joe Hart and replaced him with Claudio Bravo to have a ball-playing goalkeeper in his team.
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His side was undone not just by the disappointing performances of its players but by some decisions that went against the home team during the game, according to Mourinho. He said: “We were losing the ball so easily and their pressing meant we were never able to bring the defensive line up”.
