Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has praised his peer Jose Mourinho, lauding his fighting spirit. This season’s first Manchester Derby will take place today at the City of Manchester Stadium.

Even though Manchester City are heavy favorites to win the match, their rivals will be entering the match at the back of a win over Juventus at Turin.

Manchester United are currently 8th in the Premier League table, 8 points behind leaders Manchester City. This is because they had a very poor start to the season which kept Jose Mourinho’s job in jeopardy. However, the Red Devils have fought back well by winning their last three matches. This should be sufficient to keep Mourinho at Old Trafford for at least the end of the season.

And Guardiola has praised Mourinho for the way he has fought back despite coming under immense scrutiny. The Spaniard said, “I admire not just Jose, all the managers, especially when they have tough problems. The situation he lives I have lived in the past myself and when it is going bad I will be in the same position.

I want to beat all the managers. We are not all friends – it is not necessary to be friends – but I am in the same position and when they suffer I know I will be there sooner or later.

Especially I admire the managers that react in the tough moments, when you lose games, and, both of us, we are similar.

The expectation of us all is so high. If we don’t win, always we fail. He reacts and still stands up and keeps going. We have to win all the titles we play for. We are quite similar in those situations.”

 

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