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Pep Guardiola sent World Champion reminder to shocked Man City players at half-time vs Everton
27.12.2023 - 23:41 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Pep Guardiola reminded his Manchester City players why they are World Champions at half-time against Everton, in a team talk that sparked their second-half comeback to return to winning ways.
City had won just one in their last six Premier League games heading to Everton, but won two out of two last week to win the Club World Cup in Saudi Arabia to return to league action in high spirits. In the first half at Goodison Park, it was a performance that felt like it would follow the pattern of the recent league form, but a second-half fightback proved to be too much for Everton, with Phil Foden, Julian Alvarez and Bernardo Silva on target.
Foden was brilliant as City turned defeat into attack, and revealed after the match that Guardiola told them to believe at the break, pointing to the new Club World Cup winners' badge on their shirts as a source of inspiration.
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"We played really well in the first half. It felt like the same story in the previous games," Foden told Amazon Prime, suggesting the mood was a frustrated one given City weren't playing particularly badly.
"The manager was big at half time to keep believing, [saying] we haven't got this badge [Club World Cup winners] for no reason. We have to believe in ourselves because we're a top side. In the second half we blew them away with the way we played. I have to praise Everton, they've been doing really well recently, they're a top side and make it difficult. Really happy to get the result. Difficult place to come.
"We needed the first goal I scored to give us momentum. After that, we blew them away and
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