Relief for Pep Guardiola as Manchester City stop rot with win at Leicester
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Pep Guardiola said Manchester City’s return to winning ways will “clear our minds and souls”, and he insisted the Premier League champions will get back to their best after a welcome victory at Leicester. Guardiola expressed his relief after City halted their miserable run of results by recording their first win in six matches and only their second in 14 in all competitions.
“I think it is more relief than happiness, I think that’s the right word,” Guardiola said. “As a performance it was not the best, I couldn’t expect it, really. Leicester were better in the last 10-15 minutes of the first half, in the last 15-20 of the second. The game was tight. We have to improve a lot. We will improve as the results improve, that’s for sure. The best of us will come back.”.
“Against Everton [on Boxing Day] the performance was far better than today but today we won and that’s what we need to clean our minds and souls and see we can win games,” Guardiola said. “I never thought it was difficult to win one single game but now we feel it. Maybe it’s good. That period helps to see what we have done, it made me reflect on how difficult it is to do what we have done.”.
The City manager saluted Haaland who sealed victory late on after recently becoming a dad. Savinho opened the scoring after firing in the rebound from Phil Foden’s saved shot. “Sometimes Erling has been judged badly but it’s part of football. He’s tired, he’s played a lot of minutes. He’s become a father for the first time in the last few days, a lot of emotions and an exciting few days for him.”.
