Aston Villa vs Man City recap, video highlights<\/a><\/p>\nHaaland slid a ball home near the 90th minute but Omar Marmoush was judged to be offside before providing his would-be assist.<\/p>\n
The rest of the service toward Haaland was disjointed and plenty of the visitors shots were blocked by brave Villa backs. <\/p>\n
City will rue their sharpness on the day.<\/p>\n
Pep Guardiola reaction \u2014 Manchester City boss speaks after loss at Aston Villa<\/p>\n
On the loss: \u201cThat we are a really good team, we played a really good game but we miss again at the end \u2014 the actions when we attack the last line, the last pass, the last shot, the last cross \u2014 we need to be more present there. We started the game really well for 15, 20 minutes. They were better than us in the 3v1s, the 4v2s. We should attack the ball better, and after set pieces like they create because they are so good. In the second half we were much better, but we couldn\u2019t score.\u201d<\/p>\n
What makes Villa difficult to defend: \u201cThey link very well. They attract you in high, high positions and they link behind, they have the ability to keep the ball. When you don\u2019t win the duels, it is more difficult. \u2026 When they were in high positions [with the ball] we were not aggressive enough [in the first half]. Second half was much better.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the refereeing around the goal: \u201cIt was a corner, a good corner and goal,\u201d Guardiola said with a wry smile on his face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pep Guardiola\u2019s Manchester City were flustered by Unai Emery\u2019s defense-first Aston Villa on Sunday, falling 1-0 at Villa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-226969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}