Guardiola insists Manchester City is a “bright future” despite Real Madrid and Liverpool defeats

Pep Guardiola insists that Manchester City still has a “bright future” despite the disappointment of Liverpool’s defeat.

Premier League champions now, Manchester City are now 20 points behind Etihad’s rivals on Sunday.

Guardiola’s men’s misery week also saw them fall from the Champions League, heading to Real Madrid mid-week, with their star players failing to meet the high standards set in recent years .

Although the Catalan owner has to spend at least one season in the city, he suggests the team needs to be rebuilt, but he believes the club is well suited to restore Liverpool standards in the future.

Guardiola told Sky Sports: “If you lose, you have to lose the way we lose today. I see things that many clubs have a bright future with the players we have.

“Apart from Kevin de Bruyne and Nathan Ake, all the players are so young. What the club has to decide in the future is that this club will have in the next few years. A bright future.

“Everyone knows that next season will be available for older players, but we have to build for the next step. There is a time issue.

“Even if we are absent, we are doing well. They break the lines and can break behind you.

“They do threaten us to bring them there, and what we missed is that in the last third, it depends on the talent for dribbling or shooting at the right moment. From there, we build development for the future.

“We’re far away. We’ll see in the future. Everything we’ve done in the first few seasons is great, but now we’re away from them. We’ve played really well in personality.”

Guardiola: We played very well

Manchester City’s performance on Sunday afternoon was far from the worst of the season, but it never looked like it was troubled by Arne Slot’s side.

Guardiola was happy with the show, but they said they lacked the extra level of defeating Liverpool teams.

He added: “We played very well. Maybe we missed more shot productivity, but we played against a great team. Maybe it was 50-50 at the beginning and we couldn’t convert.

“They defended the depth in the second half. We did something we didn’t try many games because we brought them into their box and tried to beat them.

“This strategy is reaching the last third, and bypasses happen a lot, but we don’t score. We missed the next little bit and there are crosses, which are nearly impossible to do because of their size. We The next step cannot be found.”