Pep Guardiola has little doubt Manchester Metropolis will enhance after they slumped to a surprise 2-0 defeat to Tottenham on Saturday.
Metropolis began the brand new Premier League season with an outstanding 4-0 win at Wolves final Saturday. Nonetheless, they had been effectively crushed of their opening dwelling recreation of the marketing campaign as targets from Brennan Johnson and Joao Palhinha, the latter following an enormous error from goalkeeper James Trafford, gave Tottenham a deserved victory.
Guardiola has suffered 10 defeats by the hands of Tottenham. A tally solely managed by Liverpool since he took over as Metropolis boss in 2016.
Metropolis’s efficiency may hardly have been in higher distinction to the imperious show they produced at Molineux, however Guardiola expressed optimism regardless of the defeat.
“The sport in opposition to Spurs this season was lots of construct up and man marking like in opposition to Brentford prior to now,” Guardiola mentioned.
“You need to play another way. We spoke about that.
“We missed the easy issues. I by no means requested them to play distinctive issues.
“The primary was about effort to run and that was extraordinary prefer it has been for a few years.
“I don’t have doubts. Final season, we didn’t obtain however within the coaching we had been actually good.
“Within the stress, we missed easy issues after which we create sufficient probabilities however it’s occurred, it’s soccer.
“It’s simply the second recreation. Final recreation in opposition to Wolves, everybody mentioned all the pieces it’s positive and I mentioned it’s only one recreation and rather a lot goes to occur.
“I understand how we’re working and what the gamers are doing. There are lots of good issues however now we have to enhance.
“Step-by-step we’ll enhance and make extra connections.”
