Pep Guardiola: "We made a really, really good game"
“Big compliment for Plymouth because they made our jobs so difficult,” says the Man City boss, in an interview with ITV. “They were very well organised but I think we made a really, really good game. We were fortunate to score at the end of the first half. We concede the goal and they maybe create one more half-chance but we were so solid. I’m really pleased for the game we played.”
He refuses to be drawn on whether this season’s FA Cup could be the last trophy Kevin De Bruyne, whose contract is up in June, wins as a City player should City get to Wembley and prevail. “Nobody knows,” he says. “Nobody knows.”
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Miron Muslic: "We gave City a game – a proper one"
“We can only be disappointed with the result but very proud of our performance,” says the Plymouth manager in an interview with the BBC. “We gave Man City a game – a proper one. We created some problems for them and had a good defensive structure. It’s City, with the best players and definitely the best coach in the world, who will come up with some solutions.
“In those moments you need a bit of luck not to concede and we gave the Green Army an unbelievable moment with the goal of Maksym. It’s a pity to concede the equaliser with the last action [of the first half]. In the second half we tried, as always, but we can be proud of our performance. I said when I arrived I wanted to make us tough to play against.”
On Plymouth’s FA Cup run: “It will help because it gives us confidence. We were hard to play against – this will always help us for the upcoming challenges [in the Championship].”
