Pep Guardiola says he "never had a doubt" about Raheem Sterling after his goal began the rout of Southampton in the FA Cup quarter-final. The Manchester City boss left the England ace on the bench in the 0-0 draw at Crystal Palace and afterwards said he had considered putting on Ilkay Gundogan and Gabriel Jesus - without mentioning Sterling.
Pep Guardiola claims he has changed since angry scenes at Man City's last FA Cup giantkilling
01.03.2022 - 01:55 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Pep Guardiola says there will be no angry reaction if his Manchester City team are facing another FA Cup shock tomorrow night.
The Blues boss famously hit the roof when his team struggled at Wigan in the fifth round defeat in 2018, despite being 16 points clear at the top of the Premier League in what was to prove a record-breaking campaign. The City documentary “All or Nothing” captured the Catalan shouting at his players at half-time after Fabian Delph’s red card had reduced them to ten men against the League One side, even though the game remained goalless at that point.
It was the last time City suffered a giant-killing in a cup match, with Championship strugglers Peterborough next in line to attempt to de-throne the league leaders in tomorrow night’s fifth-round tie at London Road. Guardiola has already warned his team that, unless they take the same approach as they normally do to Premier League games, they could find themselves in trouble, as they were before easing through against Newport and Cheltenham in recent seasons.
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”We’ve been there many times,” he said. “I think we played incredibly well against these lower teams - remember Newport with my friend Michael (Flynn, the Newport manager), and Cheltenham 1-0 down? We know it, we feel it. It will be freezing and it will be different. We know it but in general we’ve done really well.”
But even if things do go wrong, Guardiola says there will be no angry scenes like those at Wigan, when he clashed with Latics boss Paul Cook in the tunnel before confronting his players. He says he has mellowed since then, simply because his trust in his players has grown with every trophy they have
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