Despite a dominant 6-0 victory over Al Ain, Manchester City was unable to secure the top position in Group G of the Club World Cup, leaving manager Pep Guardiola and captain Ilkay Gundogan dissatisfied. City, boasting an expected goals tally of 3.92 to 0.44, needed to score a seventh goal without conceding to surpass Juventus. Guardiola acknowledged their performance improvement from the previous match while Gundogan reflected on the missed opportunities, emphasizing the need for precision to enhance their game for future matches against top competition.
We pushed and pushed to score another goal to try to [move] first, but we missed by one goal. But yeah, we know what we need to do against [Juventus] to finish as number one.
It felt like we needed the seventh at the end. We set that as our target at half-time, but unfortunately we didn't start the second half well enough.
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