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To win the Uefa Super Cup, Pep Guardiola selected Man City’s penalty shooters.
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In the Community Shield defeat to Arsenal, City’s manager deferred to his players’ decisions.
In Manchester City’s Uefa Super Cup win over Sevilla, Pep Guardiola has claimed that he was in charge of choosing the penalty takers. .
The game in Athens ended in a 1-1 draw after 90 minutes, with Sevilla’s Nemanja Gudelj hitting the crossbar from 12 yards to give Guardiola’s team the victory.
City converted all five of their penalty kicks to win the trophy.
The City manager claimed responsibility for the shootout victory, claiming that he picked all five shooters in contrast to the defeat suffered by the treble winners against Arsenal when he let the players make the decision.
He said to TNT Sports, “This time, I chose the takers; they didn’t choose them. ‘.
In their penalties against Arsenal at Wembley, Kevin de Bruyne and Rodri both missed the goal, allowing Fabio Vieira to score the victor. .
Guardiola made the decision to take charge in the Super Cup final to secure the victory after it gave City’s early-season title rivals some momentum.
The goals against Sevilla were scored by Kyle Walker, Jack Grealish, Mateo Kovacic, Julian Alvarez, Erling Haaland, and Julian Alvarez.
England’s Walker, whose attempt squirmed under the body of the opposing goalkeeper Bono before crossing the line, caught Guardiola’s attention in particular.
I’m very happy, especially with Kyle [Walker], because I believe that was the last and possibly only penalty he ever received in his life. But he executed it flawlessly.
Because penalties are a mental issue, “that reflects the players’ mentality.”. ‘.
City has now prevailed in six of the eight shootouts in which they have participated since Guardiola took over as manager in 2016, indicating that they have a strong track record from the penalty spot regardless of who selects the kickers.
The fact that City currently has four awards to their name thanks to the Catalan, who previously won the Super Cup with both Barcelona and Bayern Munich, made him the first manager to do so.
It’s so nice to see all four trophies when you get to training every morning, he said. Wow, that is so difficult to do, I think. Sorry, we are incredibly happy. But we must move forward.
‘The nice thing is that it’s a trophy the club didn’t have, like the Champions League, and I’ll always remember being a part of that for many, many years, that I was part of an incredible group of people to do something for the first time,’ said the player. A first kiss is a first kiss, period.
The pursuit of Lucas Paqueta, a West Ham midfielder, may frustrate Guardiola, as a transfer for the player has been put on hold after Mail Sport reported that the FA is looking into him for possible betting violations.
The defending Premier League champions face Newcastle United on Saturday to continue their title defense.
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