{"id":299772,"date":"2023-12-10T02:24:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T02:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/?p=299772"},"modified":"2023-12-10T02:24:01","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T02:24:01","slug":"pep-guardiola-is-looking-to-be-the-anchor-in-man-citys-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/pep-guardiola-is-looking-to-be-the-anchor-in-man-citys-turnaround\/","title":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola is looking to be the anchor in Man City&apos;s turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1> Pep Guardiola is looking to be the anchor in Manchester City&#8217;s turnaround as he seeks to avoid unwanted record against Luton: &#8216;Wake up &#8211; there&#8217;s something wrong!&#8217;<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Guardiola has never failed to win in five consecutive league games in his career<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He is looking to take the reigns following a poor run of form for the champions<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Man City have dipped, but Gary Neville is WRONG to say they\u2019re complacent &#8211; Listen to It&#8217;s All Kicking Off<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pep Guardiola is taking personal responsibility to kickstart Manchester City after an uncharacteristic run of four matches without a win.<\/p>\n<p>Guardiola feels his current City squad, who lost experienced trio Ilkay Gundogan, Riyad Mahrez and Aymeric Laporte in the summer, require him to step up on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve also lost key players like Kevin de Bruyne to injury and Guardiola feels the &#8216;unfair&#8217; outside pressure on City compared to other big clubs like Liverpool and Chelsea also plays a part.<\/p>\n<p>City visit Luton on Sunday on the back of draws against those two teams and Spurs, and were beaten 1-0 at Aston Villa on Wednesday. Rodri and Jack Grealish, who missed that game through suspension, are eligible to return at Kenilworth Road.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The players need me and I have to be there,&#8217; said Guardiola, who never been winless for five league matches in his career.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/09\/23\/78779585-0-image-a-26_1702165321028.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Pep Guardiola is looking to be the anchor in Manchester City&#8217;s turnaround amid a poor run of form in the Premier League<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/09\/23\/78779587-0-image-a-27_1702165325342.jpg\" height=\"451\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>City are winless in five league matches &#8211; Guardiola has never lost five league games in a row<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/09\/23\/78779589-0-image-a-28_1702165327991.jpg\" height=\"421\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Having lost 1-0 to Aston Villa last time out, City take on a Luton side in the relegation zone on Sunday afternoon<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I need to find the right words, the right training, the right selections. I am the boss and because I am the boss, I have to help them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Four matches without a win. I have done something wrong, I don&#8217;t know what, but I have done something wrong. I don&#8217;t know how but I&#8217;ll help the team to come back.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I need to step back to realise, &#8216;Come on Pep, wake up! There&#8217;s something wrong&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I have never ever found a player who wants to play in front of 60,000 people. There are always many reasons. Sometimes after winning you want to try extra but you don&#8217;t do it because you have won a lot. You need a punch in the face. Now let&#8217;s see [what happens next].<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If you win a lot, macaroni pasta. The last six months just macaroni, macaroni. It&#8217;s a good warning for me. If I&#8217;m not able to do it the club will decide what to do.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/09\/23\/78779591-0-image-a-29_1702165334152.jpg\" height=\"459\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Guardiola hinted that City higher-ups may look for another managerial option if he is unable to turn his side&#8217;s fortunes around<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/09\/23\/78779675-0-image-a-32_1702165736491.jpg\" height=\"427\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>While that almost certainly won&#8217;t happen, he has been urging himself to &#8216;wake up&#8217; and identify the problem with performances<\/p>\n<p>That last sentiment is mischievous, Guardiola knows there is no way on earth City would ever contemplate ending their relationship.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike last season when Guardiola provoked his players by calling them a &#8216;happy flowers team&#8217;, the Spaniard is using both carrot and stick to get a tune out of them this time.<\/p>\n<p>No team in English history has won four titles in a row but City will have to do it the hard way after slipping behind the pacesetters.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/12\/09\/23\/78779599-0-image-m-31_1702165374357.jpg\" height=\"452\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard also suggested his players have been spoilt by success as they search for a fourth consecutive league title<\/p>\n<p>While suggesting the players were being spoilt by success \u2013 hence the bizarre sight of Guardiola rubbing his head on Friday as an impression of stroking a cat \u2013 he feels City are being judged by different, and higher, standard to everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In football and sport, the most difficult thing is to win and win and win. We have done it so when we go out in the Champions League semi-final, it is (seen as) a big disaster. It is not the same for others at all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The only team who is going to fail not winning the Premier League is us. For the rest it&#8217;s a big success &#8211; any team. Arsenal, Liverpool Chelsea don&#8217;t win everything &#8211; that&#8217;s normal. But City should win?<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;That isn&#8217;t fair. It is difficult to handle that every week, every three days during years and years. But for us it&#8217;s important to be there and we have to continue that.&#8217;<\/p>\n<h3>IT&#8217;S ALL KICKING OFF!\u00a0<\/h3>\n<p><span>It&#8217;s All Kicking Off\u00a0is an exciting new podcast from Mail Sport that promises a different take on Premier League football, launching with a preview show today and every week this season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is available on MailOnline, Mail+, YouTube , Apple Music and Spotify<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12846183\/Pep-Guardiola-looking-anchor-Manchester-City-turnaround.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pep Guardiola is looking to be the anchor in Manchester City&#8217;s turnaround as he seeks to avoid unwanted record against Luton: &#8216;Wake up &#8211; there&#8217;s something wrong!&#8217; Guardiola has never failed to win in five consecutive league games in his career He&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pep Guardiola is looking to be the anchor in Man City&amp;apos;s turnaround - Sports-Life-News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sports-life-news.com\/soccer\/pep-guardiola-is-looking-to-be-the-anchor-in-man-citys-turnaround\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pep Guardiola is looking to be the anchor in Man City&amp;apos;s turnaround - Sports-Life-News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pep Guardiola is looking to be the anchor in Manchester City&#8217;s turnaround as he seeks to avoid unwanted record against Luton: &#8216;Wake up &#8211; 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