Guardiola defends Bravo and strategy after Barca thrashing
Pep Guardiola looks on during a Camp Nou track in Barcelona on Oct 19, 2016. PHOTO: AFP
BARCELONA: Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola stood by his strategy — and his flustered goalkeeper Claudio Bravo — after saying his side thrashed 4-0 by Barcelona on a nightmarish lapse to a Camp Nou on Wednesday.
Guardiola’s former whitchcraft Lionel Messi gave Barca an early lead though City were still in a diversion until Bravo was sent off early in a second half after losing a round to Luis Suarez and thereafter doing his shot outward a box.
After his pale mistake, for that he apologised in a City sauce room afterwards, Barca took finish control, a prevalent Messi quickly going on to finish his hat-trick while Neymar scored a fourth after also blank a penalty.
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“There were dual ways to proceed a game,” Guardiola told a post-match news conference. “We could have sat behind and we could have won or mislaid doing that though we don’t know how to play that approach and we don’t wish to play that way.”
The Spaniard added: “The some-more these Barca players have a ball, a some-more repairs they do. It’s formidable to play opposite these players when we have 11. With 10, it was over.”
Guardiola pronounced he left tip scorer Sergio Aguero out of a starting 11 for tactical reasons and lamented his side’s litany of mistakes this season, as good as their errors opposite Barca.
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“We’ve given a lot to a opponents, starting in Glasgow (the 3-3 pull during Celtic), a possess idea opposite Tottenham, and blank penalties (against Everton),” he said. “We combined adequate chances, we arrived during a by-line many times, though with their strikers when they arrive they retaliate you.”
The manager gave his subsidy to Bravo, who has been criticised for some of his unsure performances in England given signing from Barcelona for 18 million euros ($19.75 million) in a summer.
“Of march he knows what he did. He has a lot of experience, he is one of a best goalkeepers in a universe final 10 years though he was a initial one to apologize in a sauce room,” he said.
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Guardiola won 14 trophies in 4 years with Barcelona and took Bayern Munich to 3 uninterrupted Bundesliga titles, though is now though a win in 4 games during City, where he began with 10 true victories.
Despite his misfortune better so distant with a Manchester club, Guardiola attempted to sojourn positive.
“I feel we weren’t as bad as a outcome says,” he said. “We’ve usually famous any other for a small while, though we consider we were a dauntless group tonight.”
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