Tag: Pep Guardiola

Man City star De Bruyne to miss 3-4 months with hamstring injury

The Belgium star may not play again until 2024

Manchester City star Kevin De Bruyne is set to miss up to four months with a hamstring injury, head coach Pep Guardiola said on Tuesday.

De Bruyne initially injured his right hamstring in June’s Champions League final against Inter, coming off in the first half of a game City would eventually win 1-0.

After spending the summer working his way back to fitness, De Bruyne suffered a recurrence of the injury in last week’s Premier League opener against Burnley.

At a press conference before Wednesday’s UEFA Super Cup against Sevilla, Guardiola confirmed the Belgian’s injury was severe and may require surgery.

“Kevin De Bruyne’s injury is serious one. He will be out for a few months,” Guardiola said. “We have to decide in the next days on surgery but for sure we lose Kevin for some time. We will decide in the next days. Surgery is surgery — three or four months out.

“The injury for Kevin is a blow, a big loss. He has specific qualities. For a long time is really tough for us. We have to look forward. We have alternatives. Kevin is irreplaceable, but we have talented players. They will take it.”

Guardiola denied that he and his staff rushed the 32-year-old back too quickly, saying: “We could say don’t play but this injury could happen later. Before I took the decision I spoke to the doctor, the physio and him. He said he felt good.”

De Bruyne scored 10 goals and added 31 assists last season as City won the treble, clinching the Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup.

With two weeks left until the transfer window closes, Guardiola said City may look to bring in another player to help replace De Bruyne.

As if City will try to make a signing, Guardiola said: “We will see. After what happened we will see the possibilities.”

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Ream: I’ll tell my grandkids about Guardiola compliment — even if it was backhanded

It’s true: Guardiola really did tell Ream he would be playing for him if he were 10 years younger

Tim Ream has said he’ll be able to tell his grandkids about an encounter he had with Pep Guardiola after a Fulham-Manchester City match last fall.

The story was originally recounted by then-U.S. men’s national team head coach Gregg Berhalter after Ream was selected for the 2022 World Cup roster.

“Tim Ream just played against Man City and after the game, Guardiola walks up to him and says, ‘If you were 24 instead of 34, you’d be playing for me,’” Berhalter said.

“So Tim said, ‘It’s too bad I’m not 34, I’m 35.’”

Speaking to Pro Soccer Wire, Ream called Berhalter’s version of the story “pretty accurate” and said the run-in with City’s manager took place in the tunnel of Etihad Stadium after Erling Haaland had scored a stoppage-time penalty to give City a 2-1 win.

“I was heading to the bus and [Guardiola] stopped me and said that,” Ream said. “For me, I wouldn’t say it’s the culmination, because I’m not finished playing, but to have a manager of that caliber, a manager of that quality stop and recognize what you’re doing is pretty cool.”

Ream said Guardiola may have been flying high after City’s win, but was still happy the manager felt compelled to offer some praise to “an old guy” who turned out to be even older than he thought.

“Some may see it as a backhanded compliment and it very well could have been,” Ream added. “I’m sure he was feeling good after they scored a 90-plus minute penalty to win the match and he felt like dishing out a compliment to an old guy.

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“It’s a pretty cool anecdote to have for myself in my career, just to have that recognition that somebody of his quality recognizes that you are doing something in a really good way. It was a pretty cool moment that I’ll be able to take. Obviously I told my kids, and I’ll tell my grandkids when he’s still managing in potentially 20 to 30 years.”

Ream had a stellar campaign with Fulham, starting every game and captaining the Cottagers until he suffered a broken arm in the reverse fixture against City on April 30.

The center back also started all four of the USMNT’s World Cup matches, though that arm injury will keep him out of national team action this summer.

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Pep Guardiola went on a very strange rant about Julia Roberts

The Man City boss called the actress “my idol”

Pep Guardiola had just watched his striker Erling Haaland turn in an incredible five-goal performance in the Champions League — so, naturally, he wanted to talk about Julia Roberts.

Man City destroyed RB Leipzig 7-0 on Tuesday, with a record-setting Haaland leading his team into the last eight of the competition.

The win seemed to put Guardiola in a freewheeling mood, with the City boss going full stream-of-consciousness in his post-game press conference.

He took aim at “the Twitter guys” for criticizing his team selection, said he took Haaland out because had he scored a record-breaking sixth goal, his life would be “boring” and, most notably, opined on Roberts’ visit to Old Trafford in 2016.

That visit, which took place early in Guardiola’s tenure at City, appears to have stuck with him just as much as any of his club’s Champions League failures.

“I have three idols in my life,” he said. “Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and Julia Roberts.

“Julia Roberts years ago came to Manchester, not in the period of Alex Ferguson when they were winning title after title, in the last four or five years when we were better than them. But she didn’t come to see us. She went to visit Man United.

“Even if I win the Champions League, it will not [ease] the disappointment of Julia Roberts going to United. My idol.”

Huh.

United, of course, had a quick response on its Twitter account.

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Pep Guardiola told Tim Ream he’d be playing for him if he were 24, not 34 (he’s 35)

The Man City boss is a big fan of Ream — now he just needs to get his age right

Tim Ream is winning a lot of new fans with his displays for Fulham this season, including Man City head coach Pep Guardiola.

Now Pep just needs to work on getting Ream’s age right.

Ream was included in the U.S. national team’s World Cup squad on Wednesday, as Gregg Berhalter rewarded the defender for his excellent campaign in the Premier League.

Speaking on ESPN’s “Futbol Americas” after releasing his roster, Berhalter recounted a conversation between Ream and Guardiola after last weekend’s Premier League match between Man City and Fulham.

“Tim Ream just played against Man City and after the game, Guardiola walks up to him and says, ‘If you were 24 instead of 34, you’d be playing for me,'” Berhalter said.

“So Tim said, ‘It’s too bad I’m not 34, I’m 35.'”

‘Have you watched any Fulham games lately?’

Despite his strong campaign with Fulham, Ream was a somewhat surprising inclusion on the World Cup squad because he hasn’t played for the USMNT in more than a year.

Asked at a press conference about selecting Ream, Berhalter responded:  “Have you watched any Fulham games lately? Then you know why we brought him in.

“He was in the Premier League three years ago, and he struggled, the whole team struggled. And he went to the Championship and he started performing better, and they got promoted. And now he’s in the Premier League, and he’s a top performer for his team. It’s really hard to ignore stuff like that.

“And by the way, he’s been a guy that’s been with us since day one. So to me, all the pieces were aligned to bring him back into the squad. Based on what we’re seeing, the level he’s playing at, he’s ready to play in a World Cup for sure.”

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Erling Haaland explodes for second-half hat trick in Manchester City win over Crystal Palace

Haaland’s probably going to score a few goals this year

It seems like Erling Haaland is going to score a lot of goals for Manchester City.

For the second week in a row, the defending Premier League champions came from two goals down to get a result, this time in a 4-2 win over Crystal Palace, and it wouldn’t have happened without Haaland’s first hat trick since completing a summer move from Borussia Dortmund.

Palace raced out to an early 2-0 lead at the Etihad Stadium thanks to a John Stones own goal and a powerful header from Joachim Andersen, and got into halftime without conceding.

Last week, Newcastle lead Man City 3-1 only for Pep Guardiola’s side to come back for a 3-3 draw. This time, they took it a step further, scoring four times in the second half to make it three wins out of four to start the 2022-23 season.

Bernardo Silva got the comeback in motion with a 53rd minute goal, setting the stage for Haaland. First, the Norway striker knifed through the Palace defense to nod in Phil Foden’s delicate 62nd minute cross, leveling the scores.

Man City then took the lead in the 70th minute, as Haaland got the final touch following a stunningly intricate sequence of one-touch play inside the box after a quickly-taken corner had caught Palace off-guard.

Finally, Haaland sealed his hat trick as the game got stretched. Ilkay Gundogan drove forward through the midfield before pushing play forward to Haaland, who held off a defender before powering a shot past Vicente Guaita, effectively killing the game off with his league-leading sixth goal of the season.

“It was a proud moment for me and my family and yes I’m happy,” Haaland told the BBC after the match. “It’s a mentality that we trust each other and we know the chances will come. It’s about keeping going. In the end we scored four goals and that’s a really good thing.”

“We have not done anything special for him that he didn’t do before,” noted Guardiola, again speaking to the BBC. “It is important for him to get goals. He has the sense to score goals. The third one, to have the quality to be strong then put the ball in the net.”

Check out Haaland’s hat trick

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Liverpool, Man City treated the Community Shield like a real game

The Community Shield seemed to matter this time

The FA Community Shield functions as a curtain raiser for English soccer, but with Liverpool and Manchester City likely set to battle for every trophy once again, the Premier League giants treated what is ostensibly a friendly like a final.

Jurgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola fielded extremely strong lineups, and kept them out there for the first hour before making subs like…£85m addition Darwin Núñez. Fans in the crowd roared, both teams lobbied furiously for VAR decisions that went their way, smoke bombs were tossed onto the pitch. If the teams were supposed to just be getting an easy run-out in as part of their preseason preparations, no one told them.

Trent Alexander-Arnold’s beautifully composed 20-yard finish gave the Reds the lead, but new addition Julián Álvarez got Man City level on a goal that was initially called off only for VAR, after a spell, to overturn that choice.

VAR was involved again on the winner, as Núñez’s header struck Rúben Dias. This wait was even longer, but in the end Mohamed Salah was granted a spot kick after Dias was judged to have handled the ball, and the Egyptian fired home the winner.

Even with Liverpool facing another friendly Sunday—they’ll host Strasbourg at Anfield—they were playing at their familiar high tempo, and Núñez improvised a header in stoppage time to get Liverpool their first trophy of the year.

That said, there was still a preseason sort of moment mixed in. Even deeper into stoppage time, Erling Haaland somehow managed to fire into the stands when standing in front of an open net, capping off a frustrating day at the office for Man City’s biggest summer addition.

Still, the fact was that it felt like it mattered, rather than simply being one more game in the mess of preseason fixtures. Teams generally brush off a Community Shield loss, especially when their opponent isn’t supposed to contend for much in the coming season (see: Man City losing to Leicester City last season).

But when you’re Liverpool, coming off of a season that kept ending with second-place finishes, it makes sense to throw down the gauntlet to Man City and the rest of the league. And if you’re City, of course you want to maintain your place as England’s best team.

Sometimes this kind of ceremonial season kick-off kind of game can just sort of drift by. They give a trophy out, and no one spends time thinking about it again for the rest of the year.

This time, between these two teams? It feels like the first chapter of a saga.

See the goals that won Liverpool the Community Shield

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Pep Guardiola de regreso en el Camp Nou nos hizo el día

Hasta Joan Laporta se dio el lujo de jugarle una broma al técnico Guardiola en la presentación de un partido amistoso

La visita de Pep Guardiola al Camp Nou para presentar un partido amistoso de caridad entre Barcelona y el Manchester City removió muchos recuerdos en los aficionados culés.

El partido del próximo 24 de agosto fue presentado por el estratega catalán, Joan Laporta y Juan Carlos Unzué y será en beneficio de la ELA (esclerosis lateral amiotrófica).

Pero tener al gran último estratega del Barcelona en su casa fue de agrado para muchos pues con Laporta se permiten este tipo de eventos que benefician a la comunidad y hacen al hincha blaugrana sentirse orgulloso de su equipo.

Hasta Joan Laporta se dio el lujo de jugarle una broma al técnico pues en la conferencia de prensa Laporta le pregunté si vendría con todos sus hombres, a lo que Guardiola contestó que si, ¿Bernardo Silva? preguntó el directivo de Barcelona que quiere al volante portugués. Bernardo Silva y 10 más contestó el entrenador del Manchester City ante las risas de todos los presentes.

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5 claves por las que Erling Haaland triunfará con el Manchester City

Es oficial, Erling Haaland ya fue presentado con el Manchester City a través de sus redes sociales y los citizens tienen a su nuevo goleador

Es oficial, Erling Haaland ya fue presentado con el Manchester City a través de sus redes sociales y los citizens tienen a su nuevo goleador.

El equipo de Pep Guardiola suma a un delantero de altísimo nivel que en cinco temporadas espera conseguir logros con el equipo pero sin duda en la mente de todos solo hay una cosa, la Champions league.

Aquí las cinco claves por las que Erling Haaland triunfará en el Manchester City

Las claves del Manchester City campeón de la Premier League

El Manchester City se proclamó campeón de la Premier League en una jornada muy emotiva con el partido de Liverpool contra Wolverhampton y el del City ante el Aston Villa disputándose de manera simultánea.

El Manchester City se proclamó campeón de la Premier League en una jornada muy emotiva con el partido de Liverpool contra Wolverhampton y el del City ante el Aston Villa disputándose de manera simultánea.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Man City se disculpa por el ataque del portero de Aston Villa por los fans

Manchester City se tuvo que disculpar con el portero del Aston Villa Robin Olsen, quien fue agredido por fans durante una invasión de la canche después del partido que le dio el campeonato al City. City produjo una volteta de tres goles para …

Manchester City se tuvo que disculpar con el portero del Aston Villa Robin Olsen, quien fue agredido por fans durante una invasión de la canche después del partido que le dio el campeonato al City.

City produjo una volteta de tres goles para quitarle de las manos el título de la Premier League al Liverpool, derrotando al Villa 3-2 en el Etihad Stadium.

Después del silbato final los fans entraron a la cancha para celebrar su cuarto título en cinco temporadas, resultando en escenas caóticas.

En medio del caos, el portero del Villa fue víctima de un ataque y el City ha prometido encontrar al responsable y que se hará justicia.

“Manchester City quisiera disculparse sinceramente con el portero del Aston Villa Robin Olsen, quien fue agredido después del silbato final en el juego de hoy cuando los fans entraron a la cancha,” leía una declaración del club.

“El club ha iniciado una investigación inmediata y una vez identificado, el individuo responsable recibirá un veto indefinido del estadio.”

Gerrard furioso por la agresión a Olsen.

El entrenador del Aston Villa, Steven Gerrard estaba entendiblemente molesto al ver la agresión, y lazó preguntas acerca del incidente al Man City y su entrenador Pepe Guardiola.

A Gerrard le preguntaron durante la conferencia de prensa si sus jugadores estaban sanos y salvos después de la invasión a la cancha, a lo que respondió: “La respuesta a eso es no. Mi portero fue atacado, así que considero que esa pregunta se al deberían hacer a Pep y al Manchester City.

Al ser cuestionado que tan lastimado estaba Olsen, Gerrard respondió: “Ahora vamos a ir a revisar eso.”

Traducción.- Mi potero fue agredido.

Vean la agresión a Olsen

Traducción.- Han salido imagenes impactantes del portero del Aston Villa siendo agredido en varias ocasiones al salir de la canche del Etihad