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The draw takes place tonight.

The draw takes place tonight.

Pep Guardiola insists Manchester City have not changed their playing style and has reiterated that Arsenal ‘were better’ in their 1-1 draw on Sunday.

City were accused of parking the bus against Mikel Arteta’s side at the Emirates Stadium last weekend as they registered just 32.8 per cent possession – the lowest of any side managed by Guardiola in a top-flight league game.

But Guardiola insists he has not radically altered City’s approach to games and believes Arsenal deserve more credit for putting his side on the back foot.

‘I said many times, I would say, jokes aside, for the fact that always when we won the Premier League, we were a boring team, right? So that’s why I said, ‘okay, I’m going to use counter-attacks more this season’. Maybe the players in the future can talk about how much I changed this season compared to the other ones,’ Guardiola said.

‘Maybe they are the most credible to talk about if really, really I changed the approach because they are in every meeting, they are in every game, they are in every post-meeting, post-game. You can ask them.

‘I think it’s completely the same, completely. What changed is the opponents play a different way, we are not able to do it better. I said after the game, Arsenal were better.

‘I don’t like to play in the way we played at Arsenal, but there are a lot of things I love it, I didn’t have in the past but I love it. And I said in this press conference but the way we want to play and sustaining that.

‘Always I believe when I started being a football player with Johan Cruyff and the teams make man-to-man, always said to me, ‘when you have the ball, Pep, as a holding midfielder, look [for] Romario, look up front.’

‘Why should I be close when that guy is being marked and this guy is being marked and this guy is being marked and this guy is being marked?! I have to play there [long]. Because there he’s one against one. You play, and it’s against one against one. And you want to play one against one Erling? Play one against one Erling. If you lose that duel, it will be a goal. We’ll see what happens, right?

‘So read that situation because before we have one more player to do the process and doing that. Against Napoli, we changed the way we play against Napoli? Three days later, we changed our way to play. I’m really good, changing absolutely everything in three days. I must be a really, really good manager.

‘Sometimes the opponents are good and create the challenges that you cannot handle and the other one. But since I retire in this club, or I retire, I would love to play in the way I want to play. Sometimes we are not able, sometimes we are not good, sometimes the opponent is better. But for one game it’s bad and saying that the team is going.

‘Yeah, I want to make the transition. When we defend deep, always I say, ‘when we defend deeper because they are better or we are s***, you can run, run, you can run on transition, run’. But it’s because we are there. But in the principles, I prefer to regain up the pitch, and make a lot of possession to de-structure the opponents, to try to punish them.

‘Always I’ve been like that and always I will be like that. If it doesn’t happen, I tell you what, it’s because we were bad, we were not good. Not because we want to do that. That is, I would say.’

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‘I had this taste in my mouth thinking that it could have been better.’

Enzo Maresca praised Alejandro Garnacho’s performance in Chelsea’s 2-1 win against Lincoln City in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday night.

Chelsea were a goal down by half time as Rob Street put the League One side ahead in the 42nd minute.

Maresca revealed that he was furious with his side’s first-half display and Chelsea delivered an immediate response after the break as Tyrique George equalised in the 48th minute before Facundo Buonanotte put the Club World Cup holders in front two minutes later.

Garnacho, meanwhile, was handed his first start for Chelsea since his £40 million move from Manchester United in the closing stages of the summer transfer window.

The 21-year-old struggled to make an impact and was heavily booed by Lincoln fans before he was replaced by Estevao in the 59th minute.

When asked if Garnacho had taken his opportunity against Lincoln, Maresca told talkSPORT: ‘Absolutely.

‘It was not an easy game. That’s why I was upset first half because we know we need to do better.

‘But overall, him [Garnacho], [Jamie] Gittens, they did very well.’

When asked if he had angry words for his players at half time after their poor performance in the opening 45 minutes, Maresca said: ‘Absolutely, absolutely.

‘No, because we prepared the game thinking exactly in the way it was the first-half, and sometimes it’s not about desire, it’s about winning second ball, but it’s also about experience.

‘Jamie Gittens never played against League One [teams], these kind of games. Jorrel [Hato] never played this kind of game.

‘This kind of game, you have to play in a different way, you have to play in a different way. It’s more about desire, and we struggled in the first half.’

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Erling Haaland picked up a knock against Arsenal (Picture: Getty)

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