Manchester Metropolis Boss Pep Guardiola Taunts Liverpool, Says “We Took All The Information…” | Soccer Information

Pep Guardiola has taunted Premier League leaders Liverpool over their failure to match Manchester Metropolis’s document 100-point tally. Guardiola’s troubled aspect are trailing 16 factors behind Liverpool after their bid for a fifth successive English crown collapsed in astonishing style. Liverpool are seven factors away from second-placed Arsenal as they chase a twentieth title, which might equal Manchester United’s document. However even when Arne Slot’s males go on to safe the trophy, they now can not match the document factors complete set when Metropolis gained the primary of Guardiola’s six titles in 2017-18.

Responding to criticism of Metropolis’s spluttering dynasty after Tuesday’s 3-2 dwelling defeat towards Actual Madrid within the Champions League play-off spherical first leg, Guardiola took a tetchy swipe at Liverpool.

“We took all of the information in England. Who would do 100 factors now in trendy soccer? I am ready,” Guardiola advised reporters on Friday.

“Or 4 in a row? I am ready – with golf equipment like Bournemouth, Fulham and Wolves that you must play.

“The requirements, we dictated. Have you ever seen Liverpool this season? They can not do 100 factors already – 99 however not 100.”

Whereas Liverpool might not surpass fifth-placed Metropolis’s document mark, Guardiola accepts his staff have fallen behind their rivals this season.

“I requested ‘Gundo’ (Ilkay Gundogan) yesterday, ‘two years in the past you had been right here, you had been one yr in Barcelona and also you come again right here, did you see modifications within the Premier League?’,” stated Guardiola, whose staff host high 4 rivals Newcastle on Saturday.

“He stated massively, the distinction was unbelievable. It is the reality. The groups are a lot, a lot, a lot better in all departments. Folks put together so nicely.

“We can not do it for the (damage) issues we have had. There are loads of gamers, with the quantity of minutes they’ve had, who’re so drained, emotionally as nicely.

“However guys, we need to have a nasty season. We deserve to not be like we had been. They’re human beings, it may well occur. We weren’t constant and we have not had the gamers at their greatest.

“It is the primary time that me and most of the gamers have lived this place however we’ve to just accept it (and recognise) what occurred up to now was not regular.”

Guardiola believes the distinction from earlier profitable seasons is that Metropolis are now not benefiting from their dominance of possession.

“I settle for when the opponents have the ball, I’ll undergo,” he stated.

“However now we’re struggling when we’ve the ball. It by no means occurred earlier than and, (proper) now, I can not change it. We’re struggling as a result of we’re human beings.”

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