• Manager speaks at length after defeat at Real Madrid
  • Players must use ?guts and nose? to score, he adds

Pep Guardiola launched a four-and-a-half minute defence of his team selection in the 3-0 Champions League defeat to Real Madrid. Guardiola chose to play an attacking 4-2-2-2 formation at the Bernab?u stadium on Wednesday and the visitors were ultimately humbled by a Federico Valverde hat-trick to leave them on the brink of a European exit.
?I had to explain it [team selection] before and after? After 10 years? I would not convince you one second, any one of you, anyone,? Guardiola said before City?s visit to West Ham on Saturday. ?Why? Because we lost 3-0, destroyed, yeah it?s normal. It?s not personal, believe me, it?s all the managers.
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