Showing his trust on the players, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola said that their loss to Norwich City will give the club an opportunity to learn and refocus on their game.
Norwich City on Saturday upset the Sky Blues with a scoreline of 3-2 in a game which was dominated by the Manchester-based club.
Manchester City badly missed their centre back Aymeric Laporte, who was missing due to a knee injury and will continue to be missing until the new year. In his absence, City fell to pieces at the back and the partnership of John Stones and Nicolas Otamendi in central defence came under scrutiny.
“How many games have John and Nico played in the three seasons?” Guardiola was quoted as saying by The Guardian. “How many games have they played with Kyle Walker? Pah … a lot. Also, Laporte made a mistake in the quarter-final of the Champions League, against Tottenham, when he never made a mistake before. We have to see what the problems are. If (the players) want to take a step for the club for themselves we are going to solve it.
“If today you believe I have doubts in my team because we lost a game …” he continued in rhetorical mode. “They gave me all the prestige I have in England. In the first season, it was ‘fraud Guardiola, Fraudiola’ OK, and how it was not possible to play this way because you have too many tackles. It was these players who gave me the prestige I have and (talk) all round the world about how good a manager I am.”