Manchester Metropolis boss, Pep Guardiola, has blamed himself for his staff’s shock residence defeat to Bayer Leverkusen within the Champions League on Tuesday evening.
Going into the sport, Guardiola made ten modifications to the staff that misplaced 2-0 to Newcastle United within the Champions League on Saturday.
He dropped the likes of Erling Haaland, Jeremy Doku, Phil Foden, Gianluigi Donnarumma and Ruben Dias on the bench.
His ways didn’t work as Alejandro Grimaldo and Patrick Schick scored both halves to safe Leverkusen a win on the Etihad Stadium.
He later launched Haaland, Foden, Doku and Rayan Cherki however it was too late because the German staff left England with a clear sheet.
“I perceive. I perceive your query. Completely I’ve to simply accept it. I’ve to simply accept,” Guardiola advised TNT Sports activities when requested about his staff choice.
“If we win, it might not be an issue. I settle for perhaps it’s rather a lot, however taking part in each two, three, 4 days… However perhaps it’s an excessive amount of, you’re proper. Seeing the end result, perhaps it’s an excessive amount of.
“It was not the efficiency we thought,’ he mentioned. ‘Perhaps I’ll take full duty, nonetheless I believe the gamers that began are distinctive gamers.
“However we missed one thing we wanted on the highest degree. It was an unbelievable alternative, now we’ve got to struggle within the subsequent video games.
“They [Leverkusen] have been good. Generally we additionally did some superb issues, we had probabilities, half probabilities; at all times blocked, at all times we slipped, at all times it was one thing there.
“We didn’t imagine, ‘OK it’s the second to assault, we assault’ or ‘OK it’s the second to defend, we defend’. It’s not being within the place, it’s being current defensively and offensively we’ve got to have the willpower, ‘OK I’m going to make a transfer, make some conditions that we are able to do’ Generally it occurs.”
Manchester Metropolis at the moment are sixth within the Champions League group stage desk.
