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Pep Guardiola insists his Manchester Metropolis gamers are making “extra effort than ever” in a bid to arrest their outstanding stoop.
The four-time defending Premier League champions have received simply certainly one of their final 12 video games in all competitions and go into Christmas in seventh place, 9 factors behind leaders Liverpool having additionally performed two video games extra.
Metropolis had been poor at Aston Villa on Saturday, dropping 2-1 and giving a torpid efficiency.
However Guardiola says their latest woes usually are not attributable to an absence of dedication.
PEP 💬 It’s about many little particulars or some large particulars that make us not so good as we had been. However we now have one other alternative on Boxing Day. Now we have gamers coming again and at a sure time, we shall be higher. pic.twitter.com/BCoBfTZuSK
— Manchester Metropolis (@ManCity) December 24, 2024
Talking forward of the Boxing Day conflict with Everton, he stated: “The fellows are operating and making effort greater than ever. It’s many little particulars or large particulars that altogether make [us] not so good as we had been.
“However we now have one other alternative on Boxing Day to try to win time for the gamers to come back again, and in sure time we’ll be higher.”
No Stones towards Everton
Metropolis haven’t been helped by a prolonged damage checklist which now consists of John Stones following his half-time withdrawal at Villa Park.
Stones misses out on the prospect to face his former membership, who’re slowly shifting in the precise route attributable to a defensive enchancment that has seen them hold clear sheets in seven of their final 10 video games.
Everton haven’t crushed Metropolis since 2017 however Guardiola is cautious of Sean Dyche’s males.
“On this state of affairs, there may be not an ideal opponent,” he added.
“It’s about us to come back again to our greatest. It’s going to take time. Now we have to get outcomes as rapidly as potential. We face Everton and they’re in a great second, their outcomes and performances present it.”
