Pep Guardiola insists Manchester Metropolis nonetheless have a “vivid future” regardless of one other disappointing defeat in opposition to Liverpool.
Premier League champions for the final 4 seasons, Metropolis now sit 20 factors behind Sunday’s opponents on the Etihad who now look set to steal their crown after a 2-0 win.
A miserale week for Guardiola’s males additionally noticed them crash out of the Champions League to Actual Madrid in midweek, with their star gamers of years passed by failing to achieve the excessive requirements they’ve set over latest years.
And whereas the Catalan boss, who will stay at Metropolis for at the least one other season, instructed a rebuild is required for this group, he’s assured the membership is properly positioned to lift themselves again to Liverpool’s requirements sooner or later.
Guardiola informed Sky Sports activities: “For those who lose, it’s important to lose the best way we misplaced at present. I noticed many issues that this membership has a vivid future with the gamers that we have now.
“Besides Kevin de Bruyne and perhaps Nathan Ake, all of the gamers are so, so younger. What the membership decides subsequent for the long run, there’s a vivid future for this membership within the subsequent years.
“Everybody is aware of {that a} half might be right here subsequent season for the older gamers however we have now to construct for the subsequent step. There’s a query of time.
“Even with the quantity of absences we have now, we performed properly. They break the traces and may break behind you.
“They actually threaten however we deliver them there and all we missed is that within the ultimate third, it is dependent upon the expertise to dribble or shoot in the suitable second. From there, we construct for the long run.
“We’re far-off. We are going to see sooner or later. What we have now achieved in earlier seasons is sweet however now we’re away from them. We performed with persona which was actually good.”
Guardiola: We performed superb
Metropolis’s efficiency on Sunday afternoon was removed from their worst this season however by no means appeared prone to bother Arne Slot’s facet, who appeared in management as quickly as Dominik Szoboszlai doubled their lead on 37 minutes after Momahed Salah’s opener.
Guardiola was pleased with the efficiency however stated they lacked that further degree required to beat a group of Liverpool’s calibre.
He added: “We performed superb. Perhaps we missed extra productiveness within the photographs however we performed in opposition to a implausible group. Perhaps at the beginning it was 50-50 and we couldn’t convert.
“Second half they defended very deep. We now have achieved one thing we have now not tried for a lot of video games which was we introduced them to their field and tried to beat them there.
“The tactic was to reach within the ultimate third and the byline and it occurred quite a bit however we didn’t rating. We missed the subsequent bit a bit bit and with crosses it’s nearly inconceivable to do it due to their measurement. We couldn’t discover the subsequent step.”
