Pep Guardiola reacts to Manchester City's 2-1 Nottingham Forest win

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Pep Guardiola reacts to Manchester City's 2-1 Nottingham Forest win  City Ground, Nottingham, UK.  27/12/25

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00:00Someone to start, please.

00:02I'm really pleased with that, but I felt that the team had to dig quite deep to get the win, to get the result.

00:09In wintertime, nothing and four hours away.

00:12I know the memory is weak, but when we won one of the six Premier Leagues,

00:17these type of games have a lot.

00:19So, there are three points, but it is massively three points.

00:25Mainly, for the quality of the opponent.

00:30Sean Dyke, again, created a team proper, because they are so good.

00:37This team, a month ago, were fighting for qualifying for the Champions League.

00:40Nuno made an incredible job here, qualifying for Europe, and they had new players.

00:46You see Hutchinson, Igor, Hudson-Odoi, and the quality for Anderson, Gibbs-White.

00:52What are the players? So, how they defend, they love to defend, Linko-Savic and Murillo.

00:57So, Savona, I know for Juventus last season, can play centre-back, the quality.

01:01So, it's a top, topside.

01:03I know the momentum is not good in terms of results, but that doesn't change.

01:06The quality is there.

01:07And the aggression, the aggressivity, the Sean Dyke, all the teams, is there.

01:11So, that's why we talk about that.

01:13So, we need an incredible mentality with the right mentality.

01:17Because in that type of games, it's much more important how you suffer, defend.

01:22The question, accept that you are playing not good, accept that you can be better,

01:26and be in the game, be in the game.

01:28Otherwise, no chance, you don't win.

01:31That game last season was lost.

01:34Lost 10 to 10.

01:36And since a long time, the team want to do it, want to do it.

01:41And, of course, the last game on the first leg of the season.

01:45So, it's good to finish with this important three points.

01:49Martin?

01:50Yeah, I was going to say, your players seem to recognise the importance of that,

01:56the way they celebrated goals, celebrated with your supporters.

02:01Do you sense that it may be a game you look back on as a critical moment in the season?

02:10Critical moment change in the United States of America in the World Cup.

02:15Like, we look at ourselves, we talk a lot, and that the change from many things changed from there.

02:21And now it's a process.

02:23So, I'm complete.

02:25When we won a lot of stats in Barcelona, Bayern Munich here,

02:28there are a lot of, not a lot, to win the Premier League.

02:32Titles is not, but you have a lot of games at this time.

02:35And you have to be, and it's a body line.

02:38How celebrate our fans.

02:39The connection that we have with our fans is there.

02:42They love the keepers, they love the strikers, they love the people,

02:45because they feel that the team want to do it.

02:48The team fight for each other.

02:50And the fans, all the fans accept play-back.

02:53But don't put the heart and don't put your commitment, you know,

02:57for the people that adore that club more than we love.

03:01And that connection is there.

03:04But I think for a long, long time.

03:06Already have for many months.

03:08I was going to say, the players you brought in in the summer have now had a bit more time.

03:13The Cherky was one of those.

03:15He appears to become increasingly influential to you on the ball, off the ball.

03:21Did you expect him to be able to make such a difference?

03:24Always when we sign a play, we expand the best, it's true.

03:27But the reality, making incredible assists, making a goal, the winning goal.

03:31Always with Ryan I have that feeling for day one.

03:34The moments I shout him and the moments I want to kiss him.

03:37So I have that ambivalence feeling with him.

03:41But I have to allow him to express his incredible talent, you know.

03:50But we have to play better from the back to he can get more balls in that position.

03:56In the first half, we have too many players behind the ball

04:00and less in the advancing position in the pocket.

04:03And the second half was a little bit better even, it was a tight game

04:07because they bring you this type of game where you press really good,

04:11but they put a long ball and Igor wins that ball.

04:13Always they come the wingers and Gibbs-White for the second win the ball.

04:17They ruin all your strength.

04:20But because they do it really well.

04:23So whatever you do is fine.

04:24And Sean, again, has created a really good team on that.

04:29Certainly Morgan there for 10.30pm on Sunday evening.

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