Man City’s Pep Guardiola Pokes Fun to ‘Delced’ Chants in FA Cup Win

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Pep Guardiola has joked the Manchester City’s FA Cup fourth round victory at Leyton Orient saved his job.

The city was facing one of the great shocks in the history of competition as the League One Side Orient led at the break through one Stefan Ortega Own goal like Jamie Donley’s fantastic 45-yard strike hit the cross bar and then the city’s goalkeeper’s back.

Second half target from Abdukodir Khusanov and Kevin de Bruyne Secured a 2-1 win for Rescue City and Guardiola, who were facing song about his future from the joyous Orient fans inside the Gaughan Group Stadium.

When asked how much he enjoyed the atmosphere, the city boss said, “When they say ‘you will be fired in the morning’, not much.

“But it’s a routine in all stadiums right now, still with this result, I think my chairman won’t sack me tomorrow.

“It was really good. I don’t know if in the league one, in every single game the mood is like this, but it’s really good. You’re going to enjoy football, the closet room is so tight. The players can talk even more than in a Usually changing rooms.

“We weren’t heated at 16, 17, 18 years old and went to Wembley. We were born in these dressing rooms. Especially when you play in the lower departments, I like the way the team behaves because how many surprises have There have you been in the FA Cup, in the long history of this competition?

City faces Real Madrid in Tuesday’s Champions League Knockout-Phase-Play-Off first leg and avoided what would have been another huge blow for Guardiola after falling 15 points from the pace of the Premier League.

“Now, of course, our position is a bit unstable emotionally, we have a lot of injuries, which is why going through with this result makes me so proud and so happy,” added Guardiola.

City handed over the debut to two of their January -Signings in Nicolas Gonzalez and Vitorer Reis. Gonzalez was forced off after 22 minutes with an injury in which Guardiola then admitted he was uncertain about the difficulty while Reis was withdrawn for tactical reasons at half time.