Pep Guardiola says he’s pleased with how his Manchester Metropolis staff performed regardless of being handed one other loss.
The Premier League champions have been handed a 2-0 defeat at Juventus, condemning them to a lowly twenty second within the Champions League standings.
Metropolis dominated a lot of the sport in Turin, however have been hit on the counter for each objectives.
Nevertheless, Guardiola has defended his gamers although it has solely been one win in 10 for the Spaniard.
Talking to TNT Sports activities after the sport, he stated: “We performed good, actually, actually good.
“We concede few, some transition occurred however I’m so proud for these gamers.
“They provide all the things and so they tried and now we reside on this interval and hopefully we will change outcomes.
“We performed properly”
Pep Guardiola trusts in his squad regardless of 2-0 loss to Juventus…
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“I do know it’s tough, within the Champions League in Europe. We performed actually good. At the moment we now have executed very well, didn’t lose many balls like prior to now, we tried, we arrived within the positions.
“In opposition to Italian groups, defend so deep, so compact. Grasp of those type of conditions. We play who we’re and we missed the outcome however the efficiency is there.
“We’ve got two video games, we want one level possibly.
“You go to Turin, Paris, our three video games away have been actually robust. It’s a must to settle for it. We are going to flip round, not overlook that interval, admire extra what we now have executed prior to now, what we’re going to do sooner or later.”
It appears unlikely that Metropolis will now qualify for the following spherical of the Champions League mechanically.
As a substitute, they must enter by way of a play-off spherical for ending between ninth and twenty fourth.
Ought to they win, they are going to earn a spot within the Final 16 of the competitors.
However as Guardiola talked about, they are going to doubtless want not less than yet one more level from their video games towards Paris Saint-Germain and Membership Brugge.
