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Pep: Anything can happen at Hull
- Updated: December 25, 2016
Pep Guardiola acknowledges Manchester City have tightened up defensively in their last two games but claims anything could still happen at Hull on Boxing Day.
City emerged from a bad spell by keeping a first clean sheet in nine attempts in a victory over Watford earlier this month and followed that up by coming from behind to beat Arsenal 2-1 last week.
The back line has appeared to be City’s weak link this season but Guardiola has stressed the way to improve it is not by focusing on fundamentals such as tackling, but improving the all-round play of the team.
By doing this he expects his team to limit opponents’ abilities to create chances and he is pleased with recent progress.
Guardiola said: “It is so important to be solid in the middle and at the back. Against Watford and Arsenal we …
