Dec 12,2024
Pep Guardiola declared himself proud of Manchester City's performance despite a 2-0 loss at Juventus doing damage to their prospects of qualifying for the Champions League knock-out phase.
"We play good. Really, really good," Guardiola said.
"Of course some transitions happen, but I am so proud for these players. They give everything, they tried and now we live in this period.
"Hopefully we can change with good results. I know it is difficult, Turin is always difficult in the Champions League in Europe, but we play really good.
"Other days no, but today we have done it. We have done it really well and didn’t lose many balls like what happened in the past.
"We try, we arrive in the positions, but you know against Italian teams that defend so deep and so compact, it is not easy. They are a master of these situations but even with that, we play who we are and the performance is there."
Nevertheless, Man City have dropped to 22nd in the league phase of the competition with two matches left at Paris St Germain and at home to Club Brugge on January 29.
Guardiola added: "We have two games. We need one point, maybe one victory. We have two teams, the last one at home.
"The situation is the game against Feyenoord and especially Inter Milan, we play really good.
"Feyenoord it is 3-0 after 50 minutes and that creates a problem, but when you go to Sporting and they have the moment they have in that moment, then go to Turin, go to Paris, our three games away were really tough and you have to accept it.
"When we turn around, we will not forgot that period. We will appreciate it more than we have done in the past, what we do in the future and now it is continue to do it."
