We played REALLY good! Pep Guardiola defiant despite another Man City slip up | OneFootball

Pep Guardiola insists Man City played “really good” against Everton, despite dropping more points to choruses of boos at full time.

City have won one of their last 13 matches and could finish the weekend as low as 10th with hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League under serious threat.

Bernardo Silva opened the scoring before Iliman Ndiaye’s equaliser before half-time. Erling Haaland missed a second-half penalty to compound Guardiola’s woes but the Spaniard was keen to remain positive.

“We played really good,” he claimed after the 1-1 draw.

“First-half was brilliant, the first 10, 15 minutes [of the second-half] until the penalty was really good. The first time they arrived, they scored a goal.

“Of course at the end on the transition we could suffer the defeat.

“But when you analyse the result, of course we are not happy, but the performance and what we have done, the guys again, with the situation we are, was brilliant.

“Of course we don’t score the goals that we need.”

The result is another setback for Guardiola and City who are now 11 points adrift of leaders Liverpool.

“If you ask me about the performance today, we did what we’ve done,” he continued.

“When we play bad, I say in the press conference and say they were better, we were not good enough. But today was not the case against a top team, one of the best in clean sheets, the chances we had and not just the penalty, a lot.

“But football is about winning, football is about scoring goals and not conceding and always we have done it. And this season or this last month, month and a half, we are not able to do it.”