Manchester City coach Pep Guardiola has encouraged his side to forget about the FA Cup loss against Arsenal at Wembley, and focus on their upcoming encounter against Manchester United.

Strikes by Nacho Monreal and Alexis Sanchez ensured that the Gunners came from a goal down to defeat Guadriola’s side, to set-up an all-London FA Cup final against Chelsea on the 27th of May.

Guardiola highlighted the disappointment within the Citizens camp following the loss, which condemned City to a trophyless season in the former Bayern Munich mentor’s debut campaign in the Premier League.

‘We have three or four days to recover [before the game with United],’ he told Manchester City’s website.

‘Today we are sad, but as soon as possible we will stand up.

‘We tried to change many things. Some days we did it, but results show who you are, they could be better, could be worse.

‘In games like this, a semi-final is like a final, you cannot expect to control every situation, but we control most of the time,’ he added.

Guardiola said that Arsenal’s aerial threat proved problematic for his side, in addition to congratulating Arsene Wenger’s side and stating that his side will improve next season.

‘They play long balls to [Olivier] Giroud and they counter-attack and with set pieces they are a tall team. They beat us because of this.”

“We make a good performance; we play like you have to play a final,” he said. “We did absolutely everything to play, like yesterday Tottenham.

‘Congratulations to Arsenal and Chelsea to achieve the final.

‘We will improve next season and be stronger,’ he said.

The 46-year-old called for his side to make better use of their opportunities in order to avoid disappointment in future.

‘All the games away are against Premier League teams. We arrive here and we compete, create more chances than our opponent, and hit the post.

‘It was a little bit similar like what happened in the season.

‘The teams does not need to do a lot of things to score goals [against us]. We have some problem to score, but we play like we want.

‘Tomorrow we have to stand up and prepare for the games we have still to play,’ he concluded.

City face Manchester United in a Premier League encounter on Thursday 27 April at the Etihad Stadium with kick-off set for 21:00.

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