Thursday on Manchester City he will return to the pitch and will do so against Everton in the Premier League. Pep Guardiola spoke at the press conference to present the match and talk about the moment his team is experiencing: “The boys are running and working harder than ever… There are many small details or large details that mean that we are not all together as good as we were! But we have another opportunity on Boxing Day to try and buy time for the players, and in a certain period we will be better.”
Will he recover anyone?
“We will train this afternoon and we will see how many players we will have available. At the moment I don’t know. I haven’t spoken to the doctors yet, but apparently if John (Stones, ed.) was unable to continue in the second half against Aston Villa it’s because he wasn’t ready.”
Haaland is in trouble, why?
“He is so important to us, he still will be, he has been, and we will try to do things as best we can to make better use of him.”
What are the plans for City at Christmas?
“We train today, we train tomorrow evening, we will stay here and play on Boxing Day. In this situation, there is no perfect opponent. We need to get results as quickly as possible, which will help us reduce the distance to the return of the players players. Now we are facing Everton, they are in a good moment, the results and performances demonstrate it, and we hope that with our men we can be consistent and get a result.”
The players were with their families for 2 days and will be with them on the morning of the 25th. Will they want to be with the team?
“We hope they want to be here because it’s our job.”