In some positions we need help, Guardiola said. When we're all together we're the team we were but with important players out for weeks and months it's so difficult.
I think it is more relief than happiness, I think that's the right word, Guardiola said. As a performance it was not the best, I couldn't expect it, really.
Guardiola told his former player: Thank you for the gift of having spent a year together.