Guardiola urges patience with Man City´s rebuild

Pep Guardiola urged patience arsenic Manchester City look to get backmost to their precise best.

The spoils were shared pursuing an underwhelming 0-0 Manchester derby astatine Old Trafford connected Sunday, arsenic the visitors struggled to make opportunities against Manchester United’s well-drilled defence.

City subsequently missed the accidental to reclaim 4th spot from Chelsea, who are a constituent up of the Citizens with 7 games remaining, portion Newcastle United would besides overtake them with triumph implicit struggling Leicester City connected Monday.

With Kevin De Bruyne operating arsenic the visitors’ astir precocious subordinate successful the lack of Erling Haaland, they created an expected of conscionable 0.49 from 9 shots, 5 of which were connected target.

While Guardiola felt determination were positives to instrumentality from his side’s performance, helium asked for clip to get things clicking.

“It volition instrumentality time,” helium told Sky Sports. “The players gave everything today.

“There are a fewer things I’m blessed with what I saw, but now, we request to execute the people of qualifying for the Champions League, past adjacent play is adjacent season.

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“We were truly bully successful our intensity. In those terms, we are satisfied for the mode we person done it.

“We person the control, but not successful the close spots to wounded them successful the archetypal half; a small amended successful the archetypal minutes of the 2nd half.

“United person been an unthinkable transitional team, defending against america deep, with [Alejandro] Garnacho and the gait they have. They nexus inside, they cognize perfectly what they person to do. But we instrumentality the point.

“Against a 5-4-1, it’s truthful constrictive and congested. We should person been successful immoderate positions that we tried to get in, but weren’t bully capable to punish them.”

This was conscionable the 3rd Manchester derby to decorativeness 0-0 since the commencement of 2016-17 crossed each competitions, but Ruben Dias hailed the quality and togetherness demonstrated by City.

“It was a precise hard game, it ever is, they were dangerous,” helium told Sky Sports. “I consciousness similar to permission contiguous with a constituent is to adhd to our tally to enactment successful the apical four. There was a batch of combat from each of us.

“Even though it was not our champion performance, the mode we fought and everyone was connected. The mode Bernardo [Silva] and Mateo [Kovacic] fought for each ball. The past effort from Omar [Marmoush] – wholly drained, but helium inactive went for it. That is what we are made of.

“Time volition archer however acold we are [away from our champion level], but I decidedly consciousness we are much solid; our attitude, however we combat for duels, we are capable to endure successful hard circumstances. The mode we respond erstwhile mislaid the ball, the principles of being what we are.”

City person kept a cleanable expanse successful successive Premier League games for the archetypal clip since May 2024, though they person failed to people successful consecutive distant matches successful the contention for the archetypal clip since December 2020.