EPL: Guardiola wants no repeat of Man City ‘disaster’ at Arsenal

Manchester City brag Pep Guardiola said his broadside tin sick spend a repetition of the “under-14s” defending that saw them thrashed 5-1 by Arsenal successful February.

Guardiola’s men question to the Emirates again connected Sunday, already trailing the Gunners and defending champions Liverpool successful the Premier League rubric race.

City mislaid 2 of their opening 3 games to Tottenham and Brighton but person bounced backmost with broad victories implicit Manchester United and successful the Champions League implicit Napoli.

The thrashing astatine the hands of his erstwhile protege Mikel Arteta was 1 of the debased points successful a miserable run for Guardiola.

City failed to triumph a trophy for the archetypal clip since 2017 and finished a distant 3rd down Liverpool and Arsenal.

“The crippled past season, we started similar galore times past season, similar an under-14s squad and gave distant a 1000 cardinal goals,” said Guardiola erstwhile asked to bespeak connected his past sojourn to the Emirates.

“After we were, a batch of the time, beauteous bully considering however it was past season, but the past 15-20 minutes were a disaster.

“We forgot to bash what we had bash and it was casual for Arsenal. I privation to vie to beryllium a amended squad than we were past season.”

Both Liverpool and Arsenal massively outspent City successful the transportation model successful the conflict for Premier League supremacy and Guardiola took the accidental for a excavation astatine those who assertion his six titles since arriving successful England are owed to the fund astatine his disposal.

“The lone happening I privation to accidental to my person Mikel Arteta is if helium wins the rubric it volition beryllium conscionable due to the fact that helium spent money, not due to the fact that helium worked hard oregon due to the fact that of his players,” Guardiola said sarcastically.

“It’s similar Liverpool too. If Arne (Slot) wins it again, it volition beryllium due to the fact that helium spent a batch of money, right? Because it’s not conscionable Man City that (spend), right?”

Arteta near down moving arsenic Guardiola’s adjunct successful 2019 and has dilatory built Arsenal backmost into a unit susceptible of competing for large trophies.

But helium has inactive conscionable won 1 portion of silverware, the 2020 FA Cup, aft finishing 2nd successful the Premier League for the past 3 seasons.

“He recovered the nine successful a (certain) mode and step-by-step, model by window, Arsenal is getting better,” added Guardiola.

“Last play successful Europe, they made an unthinkable measurement guardant and they are for maine the astir coagulated team. They don’t marque mistakes successful the back.”

City statesman the play 3 points down Arsenal and six adrift of leaders Liverpool.

The situation facing Guardiola’s broadside is heightened by the information they played their Champions League opener 48 hours aft Arsenal, who won 2-0 astatine Athletic Bilbao connected Tuesday.

Guardiola refused to beryllium drawn into the scheduling statement but conceded it could beryllium hard for Ballon d’Or victor Rodri to commencement 3 games successful 8 days connected his instrumentality from a large genu injury.

“With him successful the transportation we consciousness much comfy but, of course, aft coming from a pugnacious wounded you person to beryllium alert and we volition determine connected Sunday however helium does feel.”

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