"Manchester City" manager Pep Guardiola in England had to come to terms with his first defeat.
Yesterday at "White Hart Lane" stadium in London, "Tottenham" defeated "Man City" with a score of 2-0. For the "Cityzens", this was their first setback after six consecutive victories.
P. Guardiola said after the match that from the start, he felt that they would not be able to demonstrate good football in this game.
"From the start, I felt that we were not ready to play as usual," Guardiola said. "Every time we tried to beat their high pressure, we caused problems for ourselves, but they had even more."
"Our pressure was not as usual. We tried to play with high passes, but they won all the aerial duels, we won the first balls, but they won the second. That's why we had to retreat, and it affected our ball control.
"Tottenham" team was excellent - they fought and won almost every ball. The reaction after the first defeat is something like: "Oh, we made mistakes, maybe we didn't fight enough." That's not true. All the guys fought and definitely didn't want to lose," Guardiola added.
