Guardiola Clashes With Gundogan After Juve Defeat: Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola and midfielder Gundogan clashed in their opinion after the Sky Blues got defeated by Juventus in the UEFA Champions League. In the match, Juventus scored 2 goals while the City couldn’t find the net even once. The match happened at the Allianz Stadium, which is the home ground of Juventus.
Pep Guardiola Clashes With Gundogan After Juve Defeat
After the match, Gundogan said that the visitors overcomplicated things, and that resulted in losing a lot of possession. According to Gundogan, losing the ball a lot of times was the primary reason behind the defeat, as it opened up chances for Juventus to counterattack.
“It’s very disappointing. We had chances to score a few goals, but at the moment it feels like every attack we concede is just so dangerous. I have a feeling sometimes we are a bit careless with duels, instead of playing simple we overcomplicate things and we missed the right timing to release the ball. Just lose the ball and give them counterattacks. We are built for possession, keep the ball, be strong, if you can’t do anything don’t lose it. At the moment it’s not working out for us.”
Pep Guardiola, who sat in front of the media later, was asked about Gundogan’s comments, and the coach differed with the player in opinion. Pep said that his team was better at keeping balls compared to the previous games.
“He said we don’t need…sorry? No, no, we have done it today, other days, no, but today we have done it, we have done it really well. We didn’t lose many balls as happened in the past, we tried to arrive in the [best] positions. Italian teams defend so deep they are so compact, they are the master of these situations. Even with that, we played like who we are. We missed the result but the performance is there.”
With the loss, Manchester City dropped to the 22nd position on the table with just 8 points from 6 matches. City are in one of their worst times in recent history, having won only once in the last 10 games. They are also dropped into the 4th position in the Premier League with 27 points from 15 games.
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