Sunday 7 August 2016 22:28, UK
Pep Guardiola highlighted the positives as Manchester City were beaten 3-2 by Arsenal in their final pre-season game on Sunday.
Sergio Aguero gave City the lead on the half-hour mark, only for Arsenal to reply with three goals in the second half.
Kelechi Iheanacho reduced the deficit late on but City could not avoid defeat in Gothenburg.
Still, Guardiola said: "I saw many things that I like a lot. Our pressing, our solidarity. I would have preferred to win the game for our confidence but it's not about whether we are ready.
"We made a few mistakes in our build-up as except for the second goal that was the quality of the Arsenal players, the chances that we conceded were our mistakes.
"We have to improve that but if the solution was to play long balls, that would be easy. Four or five times building up we made clear chances.
"For example, in the last 10 minutes Aleix (Garcia Serrano) made good possession with Yaya (Toure) and (Kevin) De Bruyne and we created clear chances. That is why we are going to work on that more and more because it is new for them."
Both City goals came from crosses, with Raheem Sterling providing the first and Jesus Navas the second.
"The two goals came because we attacked the byline," said Guardiola. "It was two crosses; one from Sterling and one from Jesus. Today all the typical players go inside but I like to attack [the] byline.
"Of course Sterling likes to play on the left but that is when it is good to know the players. The last two games he has played on the right and he did it really well."
"All the players are going to play an important role so we cannot judge after three friendly games which players are going to play all the season. There are a lot of games and players cannot play every three days so the players who are ready will play more."
