Pep Guardiola is sticking by his methods amid Manchester City's 4-2 loss at Leicester City. City has won just four of their past 15 matches in all competitions after Guardiola won all 10 of his first 10 matches.

"Long-term projects don't exist in football," Guardiola said. "You have to win immediately. If you don't win, you will be in trouble. Coaches have to win, or something is going to happen. The boss and the chairman are going to decide, but no way [do I have time]."

Guardiola conceded that one recent Premier League match crystalized the English game for him.

"I understood English football the day I saw one game -- I was at home -- Swansea vs. Crystal Palace," he said. "Nine goals, eight from set-pieces. You have to control that, and we are unable right now to control that. Eight goals from set-pieces -- corners, free-kicks, throw-ins. That is English football and I have to adapt because never before I have lived that.

"Of course there are corners, of course there are many things, but not in that kind of influence on the game and where the teams are really good at making them.

"All the strikers, for example, and at Watford they are good at this kind of thing. I'm not saying they are not good with the ball in the short space, but they are strong from set-pieces and they used that.

"I am new here, but old coaches a long time ago here also had problems with that. It is not only Pep. It is other ones as well. But of course, it is only six months living here, so I have to improve on that and our team has to learn on that.

"Of course I have to adapt, but does that mean changing the way you believe in football? What am I going to do? Put in four further defenders? Change our strikers, who are Kelechi [Iheanacho] and [Sergio] Aguero and soon [Gabriel] Jesus?

"It's not going too well, but long-term projects don't exist in football. When it doesn't happen, another guy has to be in charge. I thought it would be shorter to adapt here, maybe it will be longer, but I'm pretty sure it will happen."