Slaven Bilic: This is Pep Guardiola's Problem at Manchester City
- by Grant Boone
- in Sports
- — Jan 8, 2017
Feghouli struggled to get back into the game after that miss, and his display summed up his time at West Ham so far, as he's failed to impress since a summer move from Valencia, with the 27-year-old registering just one goal and one assist from 15 appearances. It's not the reason why we won, but maybe it helped us a little bit.
A home win for the Hammers is 9/2 with bet365, while an away victory for Pep Guardiola's side is backed at 8/13.
"We can't achieve our targets unless we start to play and keep the ball".
It's certainly been a rough week with refs for West Ham, with another controversial decision going against them while facing a team from Manchester. "If we want to play long ball, long ball, we can not do anything".
West Ham manager Slaven Bilic believes Pep Guardiola's players are suffering from a lack of confidence ahead of Manchester City's trip to London on Friday. But then we started to chase them on a big pitch which is very hard to do against them.
"When something happens with injuries we don't have enough (options)", Guardiola said. Sometimes, it goes your way, other times it doesn't, and this was one of those occasions when it was the other guy enduring the agony of adversity. If not, all the other contenders are stronger than us'.
"It's a very bad night for us, a big defeat", Bilic said.
The visitors continued to dominate in the opening stages and they were rewarded in the 33rd minute when Angelo Ogbonna was adjudged to have brought down Zabaleta inside the area and Toure made no mistake from 12 yards to open the scoring. "It's not easy to say anything positive when the game finishes like this". I can understand Guardiola's comments about the stadium.
The London Stadium emptied and City entered cruise control. Here, the people spoke a lot before I came, and now during the season, about how important this cup is. We have 10 days off until the Everton game. Before the penalty we had three or four clear chances.
City are reportedly interested in the Bayern Munich defender Holger Badstuber, a player Guardiola coached at the Bavarian club.
"We showed in Europe last season when we arrived in the semifinals in Europe [and this season] we beat the best team in the world Barcelona in my opinion".
