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Guardiola: Missed opportunities cost us points this season

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola commented on the team's missed opportunities this season. He links the inconsistent scoring to the large number of new players and gave examples of matches where the team couldn't turn its dominance into a win.


Guardiola: Missed opportunities cost us points this season

The head coach of the English football club Manchester City, Pep Guardiola, has confirmed that missed opportunities have harmed his team greatly this season. The coach believes that Manchester created enough chances to win many matches that ended in a draw, but he sees the reason for this in the large number of new players in the squad this season. Despite Manchester City's absolute dominance over West Ham, the team scored only one goal from 24 shots in the match, which ended 1-1. Guardiola said in a statement published on the club's official website: "Football is unpredictable. I am not talking about the match against Arsenal away from home where they deserved to win, nor about the match against Manchester United when they were much better than us, but in the other matches we were much better." He continued: "We have many new players, and perhaps this is the reason for the instability of our performance throughout the 90 minutes; we have ups and downs. He added: "This has happened many times, we have not scored enough goals, and I accept that. We are always the team that dominates in many aspects, but we were not able to score three or four goals." He added: "I remember the match against Sunderland on January 1st, we played wonderfully, created chances, and the same happened against Chelsea and Brighton, and today it was repeated. They had one chance, and they scored a goal from it, just as happened to us in the past."