Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola admitted his side dropped off in the second half as they were beaten 2-1 by Manchester City in the FA Cup quarter-final on Sunday.
“I thought we played very well in the first half but in the second half it was their game. We could not maintain the same intensity, we were not as aggressive and we were more defensive,” he admitted. “Despite
the changes we lacked energy, especially in attack. We could not play at the same level as in the first half.”
Asked about his team’s targets for the rest of the season, Iraola said: “We have to recover as quickly as possible because in three days we have the game against Ipswich. สมัครสมาชิก UFABET วันนี้ รับเครดิตฟรีทุกวัน We have to try to win, get three points, improve our position.”
It was defeat at the Vitality Stadium in November that sparked a run of six defeats in eight league matches for Guardiola’s side as their grip on a fifth successive Premier League title went up in smoke.
‘We talk a lot about the game we lost deservedly here,’ said Guardiola. ‘That was when we started to go in our down-road this season. We talked a lot and we saw a lot of images that were not in our standard, nowhere near that we had been to have won six Premier Leagues in seven years and seven FA Cup semi-finals in a row.
‘I told the players today we cannot accept a performance liken the one here in the league when people have travelled down for five hours.