Guardiola on City push for champions league qualification ahead of Villa
21/04/2025 shot on 190425 but embargoed
Goodison Park, Liverpool, UK
21/04/2025 shot on 190425 but embargoed
Goodison Park, Liverpool, UK
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00:00Like the final, is that how you see it in terms of the qualification?
00:04No, absolutely.
00:06And after this to me that will be the game against Wolves,
00:10we will be the final against Southampton because every point, every game counts.
00:14But, you know, he's a contender to qualify for the Champions League, both games.
00:20And when you see the game against my friend Luis Enrique Peseje,
00:26I was very impressed. They can play low block and play away,
00:31but when they decide to go with the weapons they have, the speed they have,
00:34the set pieces when Carola will organize to deny.
00:37It's the final and we need our people because I think our people won the Champions League next season again.
00:43And hopefully they can help us for the middle one.
00:46Don't wait, sometimes we are slowpies, sometimes we are not playing good.
00:49It's done now, now we need them. We need them desperately.
00:52You know, to support us, to make noise and being there all the time,
00:57because it's a final, absolutely it's a final for us.
01:00Who was Morgan Rodgers? Was he one which was with the first team while you were there?
01:05Was he...?
01:06He was in the second team and he trained sometimes with us.
01:11And we could see something like, you know, could do it.
01:17But the impact had been in Villa had been...
01:22What a player. So, we had an exceptional player here, absolutely.
01:29I just wanted to ask about Tosco and Ruben in the middle, Tosco Vintour,
01:36how you think he's doing and could be an option next year in the middle?
01:43Yeah, yeah. I like him, especially with the build-up with the left.
01:48He's fast, so fast, going behind.
01:51I think Ruben and him as a person, they are so generous.
01:55So, they talk a lot, especially Ruben.
01:58And I think they are doing a really, really good partnership.
02:00So, it's an option.
02:02We'll see if we buy...
02:04I don't think we want to club niche and to defend.
02:06We have a lot.
02:08And we bought too young in the summertime.
02:11But we'll see the importance of how a player can play there,
02:16and he can play in the back.
02:18And that is so important for us.
02:20You keep saying Nicole Riley is in the back,
02:23or is he going to make it impossible not to play in there?
02:27Well, the season is too long.
02:29The impact has been good.
02:30Now we have one in a week.
02:32So, Nicole has to recover.
02:33We have to see if he can play every three days, three days.
02:36Like, for example, Bernardo have proven, or Kevin have proven,
02:40or Ruben, proven.
02:42So, I know these young players are able to play three games a week
02:45during month and month and month.
02:47But it's a reality already.
02:50I admire a lot the fact that playing position never played before.
02:55He's learning.
02:56He, of course, has to improve.
02:58But with the ball, it's good.
03:01You know, people play there.
03:02But, of course, his position is...
03:04I'm pretty sure if he plays attacking midfield,
03:06and every cross, he's in the penalty spot.
03:08That's what I like as attacking midfielders.
03:09I'm pretty sure.
03:10Otherwise, they'll score the goals like a score so far.
03:14He likes to be there, have a good shoot,
03:16and quality in his most places.
03:18And his happiness, you know,
03:20for the problems that we had in the set pieces.
03:22His structure, you know, helps.
03:26Yeah.
03:27You mentioned Jeremy Doku, that he seemed to make an impact when he came on
03:31and had trouble with him.
03:32What more were you looking for from him?
03:34I've been...
03:35I've been so unfair with him in the last games
03:38because I remember the games against the Spurs away
03:41before the Spurs to play here in Brighton, for example.
03:47Without him, it was impossible.
03:48But the only reason, reason, reason, reason that they don't play today
03:53is not the reason why, but lately because we didn't attack in the last games
03:57with the wingers.
03:58We got more full-backs wide and more players in the middle, like Bormuz,
04:02like other players.
04:04But it was not reason.
04:06It was not reason to not play that game.
04:09It's only my reason.
04:10I feel sorry for him and for another one.
04:12But today the impact has been much, much better than all Trafford.
04:16Trafford wasn't good.
04:17And today the impact was, you know, how the ball dropped the teams
04:23and his threat right by line.
04:25Because Jeremy in the final 30s had a stopper.
04:28He was an incredible, incredible football player.
04:30And I'm really pleased that today the player is really good.
04:35Thank you guys.
04:36Okay, thank you.