Guardiola not in the mood for compromise
Posted Monday, December 12, 2016 by foxsportsasia.com
Pep Guardiola insisted he will not compromise on his beliefs despite the 4-2 humbling at Leicester City.
Champions Leicester started quickly, and were three goals up by half-time, prompting questions regarding Guardiola's famed philosophy for open football.
However, while he acknowledges the importance of fixing Man City's leaky defence, he says he won't be making wholesale changes to his methods.
"The base of the way we play during the season, except a few times, was quite good," he told Sky Sports. "I cannot say today we played bad.
"We didn't play with the intention to create but after four minutes 2-0, and after the third goal, how we played the second half, we tried.
"But of course we concede a lot of goals. I always tried, and I realised to control the games we must concede less goals and here I cannot do that. So I have to analyse why.
"I have to improve to solve that. I want to play the football I feel because of course, that is simple like that [to think you should] concede few goals and to try to score more.
"I am not a coach for the tackles so I don't train the tackles. What I want is to try and play good and score goals and arrive more [in the box].
"Yes the duels you have to win that's true. But normally when you play good you win a lot of tackles but after four minutes 2-0 in the mind of the players [they say] 'what's going on, what happened' and it's not easy for them.
"That's why it's another aspect of the football but in the end we're not going to win or lose for the tackles."
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