Pep Guardiola on Tottenham being Man Metropolis’s bogey crew
Pep Guardiola needed to ask what the time period ‘bogey’ meant when discussing Manchester Metropolis’s barely poor file in opposition to Tottenham.
The Spanish tactician, talking at his pre-match press convention on Friday, was confused when requested by a reporter if Spurs are Metropolis’s ‘bogey aspect’.
Though Guardiola’s aspect so typically are likely to win even within the large video games in opposition to the remainder of the highest six, it’s notable that they’ve typically slipped up in opposition to Tottenham.
Guardiola has confronted a variety of totally different Spurs managers throughout his time in control of Metropolis, however suffered in opposition to Mauricio Pochettino, Jose Mourinho, Antonio Conte and Ange Postecoglou.
He’ll now be up in opposition to new THFC supervisor Thomas Frank, and admitted he didn’t know why this fixture was so typically a battle for his aspect…
Pep Guardiola on Manchester Metropolis’s struggles in opposition to Tottenham
When requested about Metropolis’s points every time they arrive up in opposition to Spurs, Guardiola at first appeared confused about what ‘bogey’ meant.
The 54-year-old went on to confess he couldn’t give a lot of a transparent reply to the query anyway, merely saying that Tottenham are crew.
He additionally paid tribute to the highest attacking gamers they’ve typically had, significantly up to now, which is able to possible be a reference to the likes of Harry Kane and Son Heung-min.
Metropolis tackle Spurs on the Etihad Stadium within the early kick-off on Saturday, and it’s already the second fixture between two large six sides we’ve seen this season.
Arsenal beat Manchester United 1-0 at Previous Trafford on the opening day of the season final weekend, and now one other Manchester membership will host one other north London membership this weekend.
