“I lived better before” – Pep Guardiola provides honest assessment of personal life amid Manchester City winless streak | OneFootball

Pep Guardiola has offered up an honest look into his personal life away from football amid Manchester City’s ongoing seven-game winless streak across competitions.

The latest comments from the Manchester City manager come as the club finds themselves in a rotten run of form across competitions, last winning any contest over a month ago and dropping to fifth position in the Premier League table.

City visited Anfield on Sunday afternoon and succumbed to a relatively straight forward victory for Liverpool, as Arne Slot’s side recorded a 2-0 win thanks to goals from Cody Gakpo and Mohamed Salah via the penalty spot.

Manchester City will now return to their home stadium as they hope to secure a first win in seven matches to rebuild confidence and hope of registering a strong remainder of their season and make a stronger claim for silverware.

Speaking after City’s latest negative result, this time at the hands of Liverpool on Merseyside, Pep Guardiola admits that has has ‘lived better’ in the past and that even the ‘taste of the wine’ he drinks was better previously.

“Well, I lived better before than now. Even the taste of the wine sounds, I would say, the taste is better. But I’m a practical, I’m incredibly quite honest with me and in the same time, when we were winning a lot, my prospects was so OK,” Guardiola said.

“I’m fortunate to live that and I’m not depressed when everything is going bad. I’m incredibly honest with myself, and when I will think that I cannot do it, we will talk with the club. But I feel that I want to do it,” he continued.

“Life is not in all departments, in sport and everything, everything is not perfect. But at the start of the season, you say, ‘City is going for the fifth (Premier League title), and the rest they have to fight for the Champions League (places)’, and I said, ‘Oh my god!’

“So that is not about that. It looks like what we have done in the past is easy. I know with Jurgen Klopp the Liverpool that we beat, or Arsenal in the last seasons how strong they are. But now we are not as strong as we were, that is the reality, again for many, many circumstances – not just Rodri.”

Pep Guardiola went on to explain, “Of course, Rodri is vital for us, but not just him. For many reasons. And the best way to go through from that, and me myself, is accept the reality. Accepting the reality, accepting that the decisions we have to make to find a solution, to try to win games with these players.

“When I was in trouble, my mum and dad never gave me away. Always they were there. And I have the feeling that the club, I want to be with the players, I want to be with these players, and it happens.

“We think we could lose one game, two games, but six or seven is a lot, wow! But it is what it is, so accept it.”

Manchester City take on Nottingham Forest on Wednesday night at the Etihad Stadium, before returning to Premier League away matches with a trip to face Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park on Saturday afternoon.