Guardiola says City will regain confidence 'sooner or later' after another loss

Manchester Metropolis supervisor Pep Guardiola insisted his struggling Premier League champions will regain their confidence after a 2-1 defeat by Aston Villa on Saturday meant they’d misplaced 9 of their final 12 matches in all competitions.

Jhon Duran gave Villa an early lead earlier than Morgan Rogers doubled the Birmingham membership’s benefit within the sixty fifth minute.

Phil Foden’s stoppage-time objective for guests Metropolis got here too late to vary the end result as Villa climbed above Guardiola’s males into fifth place within the desk.

Defeat prolonged the worst run of Guardiola’s celebrated managerial profession however the Metropolis boss was adamant he and his gamers might regain their confidence, telling TNT Sports activities: “Step-by-step, we now have good personalities within the workforce and in the end we’re going to discover it.”

Guardiola praised a Villa facet managed by fellow Spanish boss Unai Emery by saying: “Congratulations Aston Villa and maintain going. Within the mid-block they’re so robust.

“We have now good moments, we had probabilities, extra probabilities than within the (Manchester) United recreation, however within the second half we dropped and our urgent was not ok… We discovered a objective in the long run, however too late.”

This end result meant beforehand prolific striker Erling Haaland, a key determine whereas Metropolis had been successful an unprecedented 4 successive Premier League titles, has now scored simply as soon as in his final six appearances.

“In fact we’re dissatisfied,” he mentioned. It is not ok, it is not ok from me.”

Haaland added: “We have now to proceed. First I am myself, I have not been doing issues ok, I have not been scoring my probabilities. I’ve to do higher, I have not been ok.”

Haaland, nevertheless, backed Guardiola to supervise a Metropolis revival.

“He (Guardiola) gained the Premier League six occasions in seven years, so we’ll always remember that,” mentioned Haaland.

“He’ll discover the options. He has been doing that each single 12 months. We nonetheless consider in him, we now have to work tougher than ever proper now.”