Guardiola: “I’m proud that we’ve been playing the same way for eight years”

Manchester City have only won at home in all competitions in 2023, but against Liverpool their impressive run was cut short after 23 games when Trent Alexander-Arnold beat Anderson in the 80th minute of the Etihad derby on Erling Haaland’s 1st goal :1-Draw responded -1.

A result that kept the champions’ lead over the Reds at +1 but left a bitter taste in the mouth. While Pep Guardiola revealed that there was unrest in the dressing room, he also stated that he was completely satisfied with the Manchester Blues’ performance both defensively and offensively.

“It was a great performance. I’m proud that eight years later we’re still playing like that. We were good in every part of the game and we had to be because we had a great team against us.”

Maybe we came up short in the last half, but they defended very well. To only concede two finals at home to Liverpool is a huge compliment to the way we worked.emphasized the Catalan coach in his statements about the derby, adding meaningfully:

“We are hungry and sad in the locker room, but it was an incredibly great game. It doesn’t matter what the stats are or who deserves it more. I’ll drink my wine with the one point we got.”

When asked for a more specific comment on Klopp’s team, Guardiola replied: “Sometimes I watch Liverpool because I enjoy watching them” He made this clear during the verbal episode with Darwin Núñez at the end of the game, in which Klopp intervened to separate the two “Nothing happened between us.”