LIVE TMW – Guardiola: "Atalanta can win all the races. It made us suffer"

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23.01 – In a few minutes, in the womb of Manchester's Etihad Stadium, Josep Guardiola will speak at the end of the match against Atalanta, won 5-1 by his City.

Guardiola's press conference begins. "We created many opportunities, we were there, Sergio and Raheem were there and scored. He was a complicated opponent, if you see the result it seems easy, but in reality there was a lot of quality. They played a lot on the flanks, with Ilicic and Gomez very dangerous ".

Phil Foden has given so much today. "He has this quality of running, of pushing. He is a young boy, he still has a lot of room to improve. He played against Tottenham, last year in the Champions League, but also today … every game is good. He must not show me nothing, because I brought him from the academy to here. Red? He will learn, I am not a referee. "

How long have you seen Atalanta you thought? "For ninety minutes, it takes you to the limit. They are physically very strong, tall, fast. When they press you and take you with Gomez and Ilicic, all the attackers they have are extremely dangerous. We knew it, we saw it. quality, in the first time they made us suffer. Man against man there is the possibility of having an opportunity ".

About Raheem Sterling. "Only he has all the merits, he is physically incredible, he is strong, at the end of a game he could play another, he is fast. He is extraordinary. It depends how much."

Rodri wasn't happy about the injury … "It's not broken, but it could be ten days."

Who can come second? "Atalanta can win all the games that it lacks. The group seems so-so, but it is very hard. I know Shakhtar well, Atalanta is not by chance it is doing, Dinamo Zagreb is very strong and defends very very well "The only possibility is that the next three games will win. It is not easy for them, for how they play it is strange to have zero points. But the team … I have great admiration, for courage. Not just free words because we won 5-1, I expressed myself in the same way: I was at Brescia, it is a provincial team, arriving courageously up to here … in the first half it made us suffer a lot, but a lot. but we could have done it too, we could have run a lot and that's why we put players like Foden, Mahrez, de Bruyne, who run a lot ".

23.20 – End of press conference.