Pep Guardiola has always been a smart guy who knows how to play the mind game a lot, right now he's trying to sound modest, maybe that's his own way of handling the pressure that is coming from the press and the fans, but on the other hand I think he's just trying to divert everyone's attention and perhaps try to make some adjustments in the team that would restore his image and that of the entire team. For strategy I am unsure about Gardiola not knowing when to change his strategy, it's just a challenging period for City and I believe they will recover and take back their place.
We know how smart pep is and when it comes to making decisions pep is like one of the best coaches that have the best strategy even in the English league but there is no way that you won't flopp last three season pep was flying and he was making records of winning almost all the leagues and they got a lot of praises and the table turned all of a sudden and they hardly win anything now who would have expected them to turn out this way and we expected a lot from them but eventually everything looks different now and we have to accept that fact and they will have time to check for loopholes.
The thing is that you can hardly trust Manchester city especially in performance thay is why I don't want to judge what ever everyone is trying to say, they might just be there preparing and there are more games to play we don't know what might have happened and Manchester City are not saying anything about adjust so that makes everything more hard to understand. And pep don't even care any longer because at first it was looking as if there performance was seriously a worrisome situation for pep but now looks as if his already getting use to it and let's see what they will come up with.