Pep Guardiola, Manchester City coach, appeared before the media before the meeting facing Everton this weekend in the Premier League. Although the team’s situation is not the best, the coach acknowledged that it could even be something worse.
On the team’s run this season, fifth in the table and fighting to get a place that entitles the Champions League next year, he commented: “I do not think it is bad to be struggling to qualify for the Champions League. We could be in a very, very low position in the Premier League of not being for the few good things we have done in these four months, five months Decimocutaries! I have no doubt about it.
I don’t think it’s bad to be struggling to qualify for the Champions League
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Pep Guardiola also commented that he had seen the quarter -final meetings of the Champions League this week and did not hide the sadness that produces him not to be there: “I enjoyed the games, very good games!
I enjoyed it, I miss it [no estar en Champions]of course, but I accept it
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I am a person who doesn’t complain much about what life gives me
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“Sometimes in sport you do not yield well, you do not deserve to be, I just hope that the next season we can be there, facing the greats, the great clubs of Europe and challenging them better than we have done this season, of what we have done in the last seven years. I take it that way,” the coach continued.
Haaland will not be tomorrow, or for the following games
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On the players with physical problems, he said: “Ederson is not ready for tomorrow. We do not know how long it will be low, but is not ready for tomorrow. Haaland either, or for the following games.”