Gary Neville extends to a different “different” city, where Pep Guardiola admits that the defensive approach made him “suffer” in Arsenal | Football news

Gary Neville praised Manchester City’s approach during their 1-1 draw against Arsenal – although Pep Guardiola admitted that he made him “suffering.”

Eryling Halland looked in the ninth minute in the Emirates Stadium, enough to win the city a victory in the Premier League in North London.

Guardiola returned back in the second half in an attempt to secure all three points, and as a result, his team scored the lowest share of possession during his term by only 32.8 percent. But it was not enough for victory to be closed while Gabriel Martinelli hit the time of the defenders.

However, Neville admired City’s shift from heavy possession dominance to a more direct physical style against Arsenal.

NEV: PEP was 180 on tactics

“It was not a game I expected,” said Neville Gary Neville Podcast. “I expected it to be difficult in the sense that both teams know each other, and I think Arsenal, and we know how to play with regard to their defensive strength and do not give many opportunities.

“I thought it might be difficult to create moments, but how I played, it is clear that the city gets the early goal, then resort to a way to play that I have not seen before, but I really liked it.

“This was not a criticism when I was speaking during the game, I really enjoyed the fact that he went to 5-4-1.

In the transformation of City in the tactics against Arsenal, Neville added: “I think the reason that Pep was doing is that he realizes that Arsenal is one dowry.

“The groups are a large percentage of their chances and goals that end up in a position where you must have senior players in the box and a goalkeeper who comes to you, and if you do not, you will be beaten on the corners and free sectors.

“So, I think he was in response to this and knowing what ARTETA would do, and that they will press strongly, they will get more angles, and they will get more toys, and he had nine giants on the field just because they were able on his head, and they did so completely.

“But this was unusual because I always remember to return to the first Pep Guardiola season in England and was not a successful season if you remember. They did not win the league in this first season and said that the reason they were giving up, he said that was not because they did not have the physical, because they did not keep the ball enough.

“Then during the six, seven years or eight years, we have just seen them dominating possession, and perhaps less in the past two years, but when they were at their best absolute cases, you knew that they would be 1-0, but they will have 70, 80 percent of the ball, and the other team will chase the shadows and be able to reach anywhere.

“This is a completely different city in Manchester; it is a complete transformation. It is 180 and his vision does this in the final parts of the game, and the idea of ​​adaptation, and there are many questions that are asked to managers about whether they are adapting and whether it is flexible enough if things change in games.

“Guardiola has never changed his way of playing, it was as if everyone should adapt to what I do, and everyone has copied it for years and years, and plays from behind, but he moved to what is now now and he is definitely much more physical, and much less than football.

“I know he loves football, but it may have been adapted because of the players who have them. They have recruited these players, and they are more physical. They haven’t enjoyed the technical ability of David Silva and Kevin de Bruyne and all of these players we have seen in the past few years. Don’t get to a mistake, there are still some good players there for the city but it is a different city of Manchester and enjoyed it.”

Guardiola defends the five back city approach

Guardiola admitted that he did not like to watch City for long periods, but praised his flexibility after they scored a sudden 1-1 draw in Arsenal.

“I cannot believe in this country with another record, and I am very proud of that.”

“I give a lot of credit in Arsenal, and a lot of credit. Sometimes you want it, sometimes you cannot.

“It is really good, especially the defense of five.

“Arsenal was better at that time, so we don’t want it but sometimes it happens. Well once 10 years ago, right, right?”

Although City struggled to maintain the ball in this last battle with its competitors Arsenal, Guardiola witnessed enough last week to get confident that his heroes in the Premier League eight times are about to return to their best.

A successive defeat in August threatened to destroy Guardiola’s attempt to rebuild a new machine for the title, but the success of Derby last Sunday 3-0 over Manchester United was followed by a victory mid-week victory over Napoli in the Champions League before this solid offer in London.

When asked if he liked to watch his team that is defending, Guardiola admitted: “No, I am suffering, I don’t like. I want the ball away, far away, now. I want to be close to (David) Raya, but the opponents do good things, you have to accept it and this improvement.

“We are improving about body language. How do we celebrate, how we communicate and how to make the effort to the other. We have lost it a lot last season.

“In this season, I said that I am not given (make a zero noise) around the result, I want to see the soul again, the training sessions and enjoyment. Then after the tactics.

“We lost it last season and we have to recover. This week we recover and then you have to continue.

“Since then, we learn the process, tactics, and a little way, which we feel more comfortable than we are close to winning games and proud of ourselves and our people.

“A difficult week, especially against a team that significantly represents one of the best, if not the best in Europe. Our flexibility was great, otherwise you will not be able to survive.”