Pep Guardiola praised Jérémy Doku and thanked Manchester Metropolis for giving him the “unbelievable current” of a 3-0 victory towards Liverpool, in his 1,000th match as a supervisor.
First-half objectives from Erling Haaland and Nico González and an impressive 20-yard particular person Doku effort after the break took Metropolis to inside 4 factors of the Premier League leaders Arsenal.
As half-time neared, Virgil van Dijk's header was dominated out after Andy Robertson, standing in entrance of the Metropolis goalkeeper, Gianluigi Donnarumma, was adjudged to have interfered with play.
This was Guardiola's 716th profession victory and the previous Bayern Munich and Barcelona supervisor mentioned: “Thanks to the gamers and employees for giving me an unbelievable current towards a very powerful opponent we confronted in my time right here. It has been a particular evening with my children right here.”
Of Doku, Guardiola mentioned: “I believe he won't ever be a prime scorer, to be sincere, however he's demanding himself to be higher, he listens, and has particular attributes of dribbling. He was aggressive with and with out the ball. We tried to assist him and he performed an impressive recreation.”
Guardiola, for whom this was a 550th recreation as Metropolis's supervisor, was requested about Arsenal dropping two factors at Sunderland on Saturday. “I believe Liverpool and us mentioned: ‘Oh wow, Arsenal dropped factors lastly and conceded two objectives.' However I mentioned to the gamers to not do it as a result of yesterday Arsenal didn't win. Do it as a result of we consider in ourselves that we are able to play towards the champions of England and present them we're able to be there with them this season. Right this moment we proved it – particularly within the first half.”
Liverpool's defeat was the champions' fifth of their previous six league video games. Arne Slot was requested to evaluate the quantity within the context of their title defence. “It feels as if there are too many,” the supervisor mentioned.
“The very last thing we should always take into consideration is the title race and we should always deal with getting end result after end result after end result as we're seventh or eighth. One of the best time to evaluate the league desk is after 38 however the subsequent greatest is after 19 when everybody has performed the identical opponent.”
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Slot was requested about Van Dijk's disallowed header, dominated out after Andy Robertson was adjudged to be offside and interfering with play. “It's apparent and clear that the flawed determination has been made. He [Robertson] didn't intrude in any respect with what the goalkeeper may do,” the supervisor mentioned.
The Dutchman mentioned that the referee, Chris Kavanagh, awarded John Stones's objective for Metropolis within the 2-1 win towards Wolves final season when Bernardo Silva was in the same zone in entrance of the Wolves goalkeeper José Sá.
He mentioned: “Instantly after the sport somebody confirmed me the objective that the identical referee allowed – Metropolis towards Wolves final season. So it took the linesman 13 seconds to boost his flag [today] to say it was offside. So there was clearly communication – however as I mentioned, that would have influenced the sport in a optimistic means for us.”
