Pep Guardiola, head coach of Manchester City, admits that he only regrets the last 25 minutes of the 5-1 defeat against Arsenal.
The Premier League champions were broken down in North London and fell behind Martin Odegaard’s strike after seconds after seconds after seconds.
Erling Haaland rated in the second half, but a flood of strikes from the home team brought Guardiola’s men to the sword.
Despite the strong defeat, the Spaniard admits that most of the game was positive for his side.
He said: “I only regret the last 25 minutes, we have forgotten to do what we should do, what we have done for 65/70 minutes. Of course, it is a difficult game that begins in this stadium, and it happened many times this season against this team in the first few minutes.
“But after 10/15 minutes we took the game and really, really, really, played very well and we are there after 1: 1 and we say goodbye to the transition with Omar (marmush) and a distraction and a distraction too make. The third goal.
“But after that we continued to do what you have to do in relation to defensively and (one) a little more patient. And if you can play like this, you can run and of course 3: 1 you are comfortable, it is more difficult. I regret the last 15/20 minutes, the rest was a really good game for our team. It is difficult to understand when you see the result, but this is my feeling.
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“It happened all the season, we are giving away too many things, we are aware that this cannot happen, it happened. But we reacted very well and we played with personality and defended ourselves so well, and then we were a threat with the ball, but unfortunately we often had the momentum again. We collected the goals for distraction and in other situations.
“You have to overcome (ES), you cannot lose control, it is 90/95 minutes. You cannot end as we played, we could have achieved three more, but the team has to be stable, it doesn’t matter what happened. “
John Stones was heavily involved in many of the bad mistakes made by City in the background, and the English international apologized to the fans.
He added: “To get us back after half -time, he was a great feeling and a good situation in which we then admit from the distraction from me or a little luck.
“It is difficult if there is an overload on the back and you have a second decision to get out and you are lucky in this case.
“I could have stayed more square, I would have to look back. We cannot allow these situations to.
“We stopped doing things we wanted. Difficult for me to put into words.
“Many different things that I have not found out why we do not achieve any results.
“The passion is there, training and everyone has the right intention.
“We didn’t get where we are without difficult times, and that’s just through all career.
“We all have to stick together, this is an important point that we do not start showing our fingers.”
