Pep Guardiola says he’s proud of 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 targets.
Nonetheless, 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 mentioned: “We performed good, actually, actually good.
“We concede few, some transition occurred however I’m so proud for these gamers.
“They offer the whole lot they usually 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 troublesome, within the Champions League in Europe. We performed actually good. At this time we have now accomplished rather well, didn’t lose many balls like previously, we tried, we arrived within the positions.
“Towards Italian groups, defend so deep, so compact. Grasp of those sort of conditions. We play who we’re and we missed the outcome however the efficiency is there.
“We now have 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’ll flip round, not neglect that interval, admire extra what we have now accomplished previously, 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 robotically.
As an alternative, they should enter via a play-off spherical for ending between ninth and twenty fourth.
Ought to they win, they may earn a spot within the Final 16 of the competitors.
However as Guardiola talked about, they may doubtless want at the least another level from their video games towards Paris Saint-Germain and Membership Brugge.
