Pep Guardiola on 'dull' win in the FA Cup | OneFootball

Pep Guardiola gave a press conference after Manchester City’s victory over Salford City in the FA Cup. The Spanish manager’s team won 2-0 and advanced to the round of 16. The match took place this Saturday, in the fourth round of the competition.

Despite facing a fourth-division team, City won by a narrow margin. After taking the lead with an own goal, the game remained uneventful until the end, when Marc Guehi scored his first goal for Manchester. Asked if he was satisfied with the performance, Guardiola replied: “No. We didn’t know how to read the spaces where they were. With the spaces in attack, everything depends on how they defend, and we didn’t know how to read that. That’s the reason the game was boring. The only good news is that we went through. That’s it.”

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Pep also added that the excess of games could be a justification for the performance, but that he would not use it. “It would be easy for me to say that mentally we are exhausted, tired, that it’s been two or three difficult weeks for many reasons. But it’s our job. The schedule says we have to play every few days. We simply didn’t read where the spaces were and everything became dull, slow, and bad.”

Positive news for Guardiola is the return of defender John Stones. “He’s back. He still needs time, he’s not the John Stones we knew, but his body language was very good in terms of pressing and aggressiveness. It’s important that he played 65 minutes.”

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