‘City can’t afford to drop intensity levels as title pressure builds’
The Gary Neville Podcast
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🗓️ 20 January 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Gary Neville podcast. It's me Bill Leslie, alongside Gary. We're at the gantry at the John Smith Stadium as Manchester City Trudge off having cut the gap at the top of the Premier League to Liverpool to just four points. Not vintage Manchester City that we've seen here today, but effective Manchester City. Yeah, it was. I don't think before the game, any of us thought for one second, |
| 0:23.9 | Manchester City wouldn't win the game. I don't think at any point during the game, |
| 0:26.7 | did you think that they wouldn't? But I said in the first half that I got angry with them, |
| 0:33.8 | and I got angry with them for about 25 minutes because I felt as though they were drifting and they were showing that little bit of complacency, look, if you were a city fan listening |
| 0:41.2 | to me at home, you might be annoyed and think, oh, do you never have 25 minute periods like |
| 0:46.4 | this? But when you think of the intensity that they got to all the way through last season, we |
| 0:51.7 | were here last season doing this match and the celebrations at the end of that game, |
| 0:57.0 | the way in which they kept on doing it all the way through, |
| 0:59.8 | it just felt in the first half, |
| 1:01.8 | like they were going through the motions a little bit. |
| 1:03.9 | And they've got a big four months in front of them |
| 1:06.2 | where they're going obviously for the Champions League, |
| 1:08.4 | they've got the Carabow Cup, |
| 1:10.8 | they've got the Carabow Cup. They've got the FA Cup. |
| 1:12.0 | And they've also got to try and achieve back-to-back titles. |
| 1:15.0 | And back-to-back titles, you've got to have that intensity all the time. |
| 1:18.6 | It wasn't really me thinking about today's game and thinking it would catch them out today. |
| 1:22.3 | But if they introduce 25, 30-minute periods like that in games, certain games for the rest of the season, they'll have problems. |
| 1:30.5 | They've been asked questions twice by Liverpool in that Liverpool have won two games, |
| 1:34.7 | extending the gap to seven points at the top. City have come up with the answers pretty convincingly |
| 1:39.1 | both times against Wolves and today. Interesting now that the pendulum swings and that City get a couple of games when |
| 1:45.0 | they play first. So rather than being seven, Liverpool will then kick off next with the gap at one. |
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