\u201cWe could be better,\u201d Guardiola said. \u201cWe could be more aggressive in the first half \u2013 better control maybe. In the end we need creativity: the cross, the shot, the dribble and we are struggling a bit this season. Something changed, Savinho\u2019s [missed] chance [against Real Madrid], Marc this time.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it\u2019s not easy: defences in a low block, the transitions teams have. Madrid are more dangerous than West Ham on transition. On set-pieces, Nuno is a master. What can I say to the team? They did everything. They had 21 shots. We have to be better in the final third \u2013 that\u2019s all. It has happened many times this season.\u201d<\/p>\n
The City goal that had briefly given them the lead in the 31st minute was a miscued cross from Bernardo Silva and for all the star quality later unleashed on West Ham there was not much more. Haaland missed a couple of chances, including a ball pushed through the West Ham back line by the substitute Rayan Cherki, who was the game\u2019s silkiest performer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe could be better,\u201d Guardiola said. \u201cWe could be more aggressive in the first half \u2013 better control…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,2502,19404,221,217,101,5438,56,54,55,157732,10091],"class_list":["post-476184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-manchester-city-fc","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-premier-league","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-us-content","tag-west-ham-united-fc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476184","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=476184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}