Pep Guardiola insists that Manchester City still has a “shiny future” despite another disappointing defeat against Liverpool.
Premier League champion of the last four seasons, City, are now sitting 20 points behind the opponents on Sunday in Etihad, who now want to steal their crown after a 2-0 win.
In a spider week for Guardiola’s men, she also plunged from the Champions League to Real Madrid a week, with her star players of years no longer reaching the high standards they have set in recent years.
And while the Catalan boss, who will remain in the city at least one further season, suggests that reconstruction is necessary for this team, he is confident that the association will be imposed on Liverpool’s standards in the future.
Guardiola said to Sky Sports: “If you lose, you have to lose the way we lost today. I have seen many things that this club with the players we have has a brilliant future.
“In addition to Kevin de Bruyne and maybe Nathan Ake, all players are so young. What the club will decide for the future will be a brilliant future for this club in the next few years.
“Everyone knows that a part will be here for the older players next season, but we have to build for the next step. There is a question of time.
“Even with the amount of absences we have, we played well. They break the lines and can break behind you.
“They really threaten, but we bring them there and everything we missed is that in the last third it depends on the talent to dribble or shoot at the right moment. From there we build for the future.
“We are far away. We will see in the future. What we did in earlier seasons is good, but now we are gone. We played with personality, which was really good. “
Guardiola: We played very well
City’s performance on Sunday afternoon was far from her worst this season, but never seemed to worry about Arne Slot’s team, which looked at the control as soon as Dominik Szoboszlai doubled her lead to 37 minutes after Momahed Salah’s start.
Guardiola was satisfied with the performance, but said that they lacked this additional level that was necessary to beat a Liverpool’s team.
He added: “We played very well. Maybe we missed more productivity in the recordings, but we played against a fantastic team. Maybe it was 50-50 and we couldn’t convert.
“They defended the second half very deeply. We did something that we didn’t try for many games, and we brought her to your box and tried to hit her there.
“The tactics should arrive in the last third and in the Byline and a lot happened, but we didn’t play. We missed the next a bit and with crosses it is almost impossible to do it due to their size. We couldn’t find the next step. “
