Pep Guardiola insists that Manchester City still has a “bright future”, despite a new disappointing defeat against Liverpool.
Premier League champions for the last four seasons, City is now 20 points behind Sunday’s opponents in the Etihad who are now looking for their crown after a 2-0 win.
She also saw a miseral week for the men of Guardiola in the Champions League to Real Madrid in the midweek crash, with their star players of years away by reaching the high standards they have established in recent years.
And while the Catalan boss, who will stay in the city for at least another season, suggested that a rebuild is required for this team, he is convinced that the club is well placed to return to Liverpool’s standards in the future.
Guardiola said to Sky Sports: “If you lose, you have to lose the way we have lost today. I saw many things that this club has a bright future with the players we have.
“Besides Kevin De Bruyne and perhaps Nathan Ake, all players are so young. What the club next for the future decides, there will be a bright future for this club in the coming years.
“Everyone knows that a part will be here next season for the older players, but we have to build for the next step. There is a matter of time.
“Even with the amount of absence 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 have missed is that it is in the last third part of the talent to dribble or shoot at the right time. From there we are building for the future.
“We are far away. We will see in the future. What we have done in previous seasons is good, but now we love them. We played with personality who was really good. “
Guardiola: We played very well
The performance of City on Sunday afternoon was far from their worst this season, but never looked that Arne Slot looked at the side of Arne Slot, who looked into control as soon as Dominik Szoboszlai doubled their lead 37 minutes after the opener of Momahed Salah.
Guardiola was happy with the performance, but said they missed that extra level that was needed to beat a Liverpool caliber.
He added: “We played very well. Maybe we missed more productivity in the shots, but we played against a fantastic team. Perhaps it was 50-50 in the beginning and we could not convert.
“They defended second half very deeply. We have done something that we have not tried for many games, where we brought them to their box and tried to beat them there.
“The tactic would arrive in the last third and the name rule and it happened a lot, but we didn’t score. We missed the next bit a bit and with crossing it is almost impossible to do it because of their size. We couldn’t find the next step. ‘
