Pep Guardiola thinks his facet are the victims of their very own success and says he accepts that some will view Manchester Metropolis not successful the Premier League this season as a failure.
Final season’s treble winners have gone 4 video games with out a Premier League win for the primary time since 2017 after successive attracts in opposition to Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham have been adopted by defeat at Aston Villa on Wednesday.
They will reduce the hole on league leaders Liverpool to 4 factors with victory away at Luton, stay on Sky Sports activities, however Metropolis’s poor latest run means retaining their Premier League title now seems like an uphill battle.
“Managers are the bosses, they are the main person and they have to find the solution,” Guardiola instructed Sky Sports activities.
“Should you do not wish to settle for that job [where] within the huge moments, within the victories, you must share it and the dangerous moments you’re taking the duty – if you’re not ready to do this you then can’t do the job, you can’t do the job. It’s a must to settle for every thing prefer it’s regular.
“I handle it well (adversity after a defeat) because I approach it like the opponent deserves it too, because they have a good manager and good players and they can win too. Sometimes it’s normal to have bad moments or bad results.”
Responding to a suggestion within the print media that Metropolis are in transition, Guardiola mentioned: “I’d say my groups aren’t given time to transition.
“In my first season right here once we did not win something it was a catastrophe! Why? Individuals have been studying that Pep could not adapt right here along with his groups.
“And now, if we win the Premier League we’ve done what we had to do. If we don’t it is a big failure and a big success for the other one. Nothing is going to happen if another team doesn’t win the Premier League, it’s just because our standard is so high, so that is the reality.”
Guardiola: Possibly we’d like problem of shedding video games
Regardless of the hunch in type, Guardiola believes Metropolis may very well be higher off dealing with the problem of a winless run to enhance ends in the long term.
“As a manager, I sometimes need that challenge. I think for everyone in the club, it’s good what we are living. I think it’s necessary to live that,” he mentioned in his pre-match information convention.
“For a long time, [it was about] how good we are, like a cat [being stroked]. And maybe we need to say it’s terrible. It’s all beautiful and now we are not able to win one game.
“Possibly for myself first, I want that problem to show I am an excellent supervisor to elevate the gamers and hope for them to beat that scenario. For the gamers, it is a good problem, to say: Aston Villa have been miles higher than all of us.
“We can say, ‘wow, Aston Villa, were better than us, imagine how good the other ones are’. And the club, the whole organisation could say, ‘we may be out of the Champions League next season. We have to work hard.’
“And I feel we’d like it, after every thing that has occurred in the previous few years, we’d like it.
“Nothing is going to change, the club will still be here. Even if we have a bad season, next season we will be back.
“However nonetheless, we’re in December, not even completed the primary leg and have lots of video games to play. The Champions League [knockout] competitors, it is there. The FA Cup, we play at dwelling in opposition to Huddersfield. We now have lots of stunning issues occurring, we now have to embrace it. We’re saying that, all optimistic and with a smile, let’s embrace it.
“The club we need it and I need it. Weeks ago or a month ago, I said: the club needs a shake, bad results can help you to lift that.”
Watch Luton vs Man Metropolis stay on Sky Sports activities’ Tremendous Sunday this weekend from 1pm, kick-off 2pm. The sport can be streamed with a NOW TV go.