Pep Guardiola insists Man City played “really good” against Everton, despite dropping more points to boos at full time.
City have won one of their last 13 matches and could finish the weekend as low as 10th.
Their hopes of qualifying for next season’s Champions League are under serious threat.
Bernardo Silva opened the scoring before Iliman Ndiaye’s equalizer before half-time.
Erling Haaland missed a second-half penalty, compounding Guardiola’s woes, but the Spaniard remained positive.
“We played really good,” he claimed after the 1-1 draw.
“First-half was brilliant, the first 10, 15 minutes [of the second-half] until the penalty was really good.
The first time they arrived; they scored a goal.
Of course, at the end on the transition, we could suffer the defeat.
But when you analyze the result, of course, we are not happy, but the performance and what we have done, the guys again, with the situation we are, was brilliant.
Of course, we don’t score the goals that we need.”
The result is another setback for Guardiola and City, who are now 11 points adrift of leaders Liverpool.
“If you ask me about the performance today, we did what we’ve done,” he continued.
“When we play bad, I say in the press conference and say they were better, we were not good enough.
But today was not the case against a top team, one of the best in clean sheets, the chances we had and not just the penalty, a lot.
But football is about winning, football is about scoring goals and not conceding and always we have done it.
And this season or this last month, month and a half, we are not able to do it.”
