Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola, who won the English Premier League championship, revealed that facing players such as the Egyptian Mohamed Salah, the Liverpool star, taught him a lot and was the reason for his team’s appearance in a wonderful way, as he awaits the Champions League and League Cup finals against Inter Milan and Manchester United, respectively.
City won the English Premier League championship for the third time in a row and the fifth in the last 6 years under the leadership of Guardiola, whose team rose up in the second half of the season to snatch the lead from the London Arsenal.
The duo, Nathan Aki and Manuel Akanji, the two central defenders, presented impressive levels in the left-back field, which saw Guardiola abandon two players in it, the Ukrainian Oleksandr Zinchenko, and in the winter transfer period, the Portuguese Joao Cancelo.
Guardiola said in an interview with Sky Network: My view of things changed in terms of defense after City played against Mohamed Salah, Bucayo Saka, Vinicius Jr. and Gabriel Martinelli, then you need suitable defenders to win bilateral conflicts.
And he continued: All those I mentioned can turn the scales with one skill, and that is why Aki was important to us, as well as Akanji, because the defensive strength that the team showed in the current season was thanks to their efforts in addition to the rest of the players.
2023-05-22 16:04:00
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