Stefan Ortega lashes out at Liverpool fans after another defeat lurches Manchester City’s season into further chaos.
Stefan Ortega has criticised Liverpool by calling it “not the best part in the UK”.
As Liverpool defeated the struggling champions 2-0, Guardiola responded to cries of “You’re getting sacked in the morning” by raising six fingers to the Anfield crowd, one for each Premier League championship he has won at City.
Despite the fact that it was City’s sixth loss in a seven-game losing streak—possibly the worst stretch of his storied managing career—the City manager insisted he deserved better from Liverpool because of their intense rivalry in recent years.
Ortega defended his manager’s reaction, while criticising the city of Liverpool. “Someone told me before that this area is probably not the best part in the UK,” the City keeper said. “I think he reacted really well.”
Guardiola said: “I’m so proud of my six Premier Leagues against that [Liverpool] team and the previous team [under Jürgen Klopp]. I didn’t expect Anfield to start chanting at 0-2 that I would be sacked. Maybe I deserved to be sacked with our results! Maybe I’m still in the job because I won six Premier Leagues and a lot of titles.
“They want to sack me. I wish they were more kind. Why didn’t they do it at 0-1? Why didn’t they do it last season when we won the Premier League? Why do they want to sack me now? I didn’t expect that from Anfield, for other clubs like Brighton I can understand it. But for Anfield I didn’t expect this, maybe it is the respect we have. They know we have won six Premier Leagues. But it’s fine, it’s part of the game.”