Live broadcast on August 18-at 3 a.m. Beijing Time on August 20, Manchester City will play Newcastle United at home in the second round of the Premier League. Before the game, Manchester City coach Guardiola attended the press conference and talked about the game.
Talk about this rival Newcastle–
Newcastle is a team participating in the Champions League. If you can qualify for the Champions League, this team has performed very well last season. No one believes what happened to them last season, but you see the result and believe they will continue to do so. Eddie Hao has built a very good team. They have done a good job in attack and defense conversion and ball control. They can control the game situation, which will be a serious challenge for us.
Is Newcastle a Premier League champion contender?
If they can handle the matches in each field, including the Champions League, the FA Cup and the Carling Cup, they will have a competitive advantage if they can do it well. The situation of a team playing one game a week is completely different from that of playing four games a week. If they can handle it well, they will certainly compete.
This is Manchester City’s first Premier League game in the new season–
I hope our stadium will be packed tomorrow. I hope everyone will stay with us. The team is not at the best moment yet. We need support and shouting most when we encounter difficulties. After we went through the Champions League, the FA Cup final and won the championship Super Cup, this is the first time we have returned to the home game. I hope we can celebrate with the fans.
Return to the Premier League Super Cup–
Of course we are ready to go back to the game. The team needs such a challenge. We are facing the difficulties of injuries and intensive competitions, but this is also a challenge we must face and we will overcome as soon as possible.
Players’ injuries–
Stone can’t play? Yes, he didn’t train with the team. Last time he trained his muscles, he didn’t feel very comfortable. I’m not sure how long he will rest. Maybe Ruben Dias can play.
Alvarez also had some discomfort. He only appeared on the Super Cup substitute for a few minutes. He was very important to us, especially he played an excellent penalty kick in the penalty kick war, judging from his character, this is also the reason why he appeared in the last few minutes. Bernard Silva will be back soon, and I believe he will be ready next week.
The injury of deburne–
When de Blau was injured last season, Jing Duan stayed in the team. Maybe we have to make adjustments to deal with the external treatment of our situation. I am sure we need to make some necessary adjustments, but I don’t know yet.
De Braune is a very good player for us. His injury is not a week or two, but for four or five months. He is 32 years old. For the team, we need him to have excellent physical quality and his response is very decisive.
The impact of intensive schedule on the lineup–
We hope to continue to be competitive, but we do have big problems now, whether for multi-line competitions or others. Every coach would say that in my position. A few days ago, we were in Greece (participating in Super Cup). We played football at 10 p.m. and slept at 4 p.m., where the temperature was 35-40 degrees, and then we came back to prepare for the match. The game starts tomorrow, but we can’t train today, we can only simply recover, we have no time. I want to play one more day later,…… Well, we accept that this is a challenge for us and everyone will say so. This is also the reason why we win. We have always faced such a situation. In the past, we only had little recovery time, but this is not a problem. We need to try. Newcastle and Liverpool are the teams with the strongest overall physical quality in the league, but we need to play the team well and prepare the way to deal with it.
(Jin Hao)
? Come and see the coach compete before the match.