Pep Guardiola keen to shift Man City focus after derby defeat to Man Utd Pep Guardiola insisted that the focus still deserves to be on Manchester City’s winning run despite it coming to an end against Manchester United. City had won 21 games in a row before that streak came to an end against the team they would least have liked it to – rivals United. The visitors to the Etihad Stadium scored early in either half to wrap up a 2-0 win. It will unlikely be enough to inspire a late surge for the title City seem on course to win, but was still a blow for the league leaders. Guardiola insisted that his side played well, but was also complimentary of the opposition. He told Sky Sports: “It was a fantastic game. United make incredibly high pressing and they are so fast on the counter. “We played good. Unfortunately we couldn’t be clinical up front so we congratulate United. “We will be the news because we lost. But the news is 21 victories in a row. There are still 30 points to play and we have to start to win again. “That’s football. Sometimes it happens. We played much better than the game against West Ham which we won. “It’s always the same. We win a game and then move onto the next one. It’s the same here. We lose this so we go to the next one. “It’s a lesson. Even at 0-2 we played really well.” De Bruyne regrets slow start Meanwhile, City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne lamented the manner in which they started the match – but echoed his manager’s view that they must quickly shift their focus. De Bruyne told Sky Sports: “Obviously I don’t think we started very well. We knew it would be hard. “We played into their hands with the first goal and we needed about 15 minutes to settle a bit. Then we played pretty good but we didn’t score and that made a difference and made a mistake with the pressing for the second goal. Subscribe for free to TEAMtalk’s daily newsletter… “It is not the best if you go behind after one minute but you still have 90 minutes after that. The second was a little worse but I think the mentality of the players was the same as always. “It is not nice to lose the derby but sometimes it happens. We have to move on and Wednesday there is a new game. “Sometimes it is necessary to lose games and have bad spells. Even in the winning run we had some bad spells but overcame then, we didn’t today. Sometimes it can be a positive.” READ MORE: Solskjaer rates chances of catching City The post Pep Guardiola keen to shift Man City focus after derby defeat to Man Utd appeared first on teamtalk.com.

Pep Guardiola insisted that the focus still deserves to be on Manchester City’s winning run despite it coming to an end against Manchester United.

City had won 21 games in a row before that streak came to an end against the team they would least have liked it to – rivals United.

The visitors to the Etihad Stadium scored early in either half to wrap up a 2-0 win. It will unlikely be enough to inspire a late surge for the title City seem on course to win, but was still a blow for the league leaders.

Guardiola insisted that his side played well, but was also complimentary of the opposition.

He told Sky Sports: “It was a fantastic game. United make incredibly high pressing and they are so fast on the counter.

“We played good. Unfortunately we couldn’t be clinical up front so we congratulate United.

“We will be the news because we lost. But the news is 21 victories in a row. There are still 30 points to play and we have to start to win again.

“That’s football. Sometimes it happens. We played much better than the game against West Ham which we won.

“It’s always the same. We win a game and then move onto the next one. It’s the same here. We lose this so we go to the next one.

“It’s a lesson. Even at 0-2 we played really well.”

De Bruyne regrets slow start

Meanwhile, City midfielder Kevin De Bruyne lamented the manner in which they started the match – but echoed his manager’s view that they must quickly shift their focus.

De Bruyne told Sky Sports: “Obviously I don’t think we started very well. We knew it would be hard.

“We played into their hands with the first goal and we needed about 15 minutes to settle a bit. Then we played pretty good but we didn’t score and that made a difference and made a mistake with the pressing for the second goal.

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“It is not the best if you go behind after one minute but you still have 90 minutes after that. The second was a little worse but I think the mentality of the players was the same as always.

“It is not nice to lose the derby but sometimes it happens. We have to move on and Wednesday there is a new game.

“Sometimes it is necessary to lose games and have bad spells. Even in the winning run we had some bad spells but overcame then, we didn’t today. Sometimes it can be a positive.”

READ MORE: Solskjaer rates chances of catching City

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