Pep Guardiola was pleased with Manchester City’s performance despite them almost blowing a 1-0 lead in a “complicated” finish against Newcastle United in a game they had dominated for 80 minutes.
“We created chances. At half-time it could have been three or four,” Guardiola told a news conference.
“It’s okay. When you’re winning 18 games in a row, you have 10-15 minutes in that way but we are so happy.
“It’s not easy when Newcastle don’t want to play. They defend well and want to counter-attack and defend deep. It’s not easy.
“We created chances in the first half and the beginning of the second. In the last minutes — it was a little more complicated.”
“As a manager, I have to adapt my team to convince them. In these 18 games, we have played against teams who have done high pressing, low pressing, counter-attacks, just set pieces, just like Tottenham who tried to go forward and attack, and in all of them, we have been able to beat them.
“The magnificent thing about football and any manager of any team is they can play any way. Teams can try to trick you, but you have to be able to beat them and until now we have been able to do that.
“Until now, we have found a way to win.”
“I don’t know about [Kompany’s injury] and I don’t know what going to happen [in January],” Guardiola added.
“Unfortunately h
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