Pep Guardiola, Manager of Manchester City, claims that his team lost the modest defeat on Sunday against Liverpool in the right way and presupposed a “shiny future” for the young group.
With an average age of 25 years and 68 days, it was the common recent line -up that Guardiola named after a Premier League game. The last time it was that Young City 2020 Watford defeated, a completely different task than the storming of a Liverpool team that stormed the title.
Kevin de Bruyne, Nathan Ake and Everson drew age at the Etihad Stadium, but Savinho, Rico Lewis and Abdukodir Khusanov are all only 20 years old, and Josko Gvardiol, Nico Gonzalez and Jeremy Doku acted 23 or younger.
In view of the circumstances when the city dominated the property and the shots – even a goal from Omar Marsmoush, who was not approved, Guardiola was satisfied with much of what happened.
“If you lose, you have to do the way we lost today Sky Sport.
“With the exception of Kevin de Bruyne and maybe Nathan Ake, all players are so young. There will be a brilliant future for this association in the next few years.
“Everyone knows that a part will be here for the older players next season, but we have to build for the next step. There is a matter of time. Even with the amount of absences we have, we played well . Can break behind you.
“We are far away. We will see in the future. What we did in earlier seasons is good, but now we are gone from them. We played with personality what was really good.”
It could be too late for de Bruyne. The Belgian midfielder, a verifiable city legend, will be 34 years old in summer, loses his influence on the field.
De Bruyne was overlooked in the middle of the week against Real Madrid in the play-off second leg of the Champions League and was the first player that Guardiola changed for this game. His contract expired in summer and a lucrative golden sunset calls.