Leeds were beaten 1-0 on Saturday night, thanks to Antoine Semenyo's goal just on halftime.
“A huge victory for us,” said Guardiola afterwards. “Erling is a massively important player for us, but we behaved really well.
“My idea of the game is that they started well, but we expect it here.
“Leeds are so intense. After that we did what we are good at for the last decade, a thousand million passes, and make the vibe of the crowd a little bit calmer.
“We missed a little bit more intention up front with the movements, but when they got fatigued the last 15 or 20 minutes we had more intention and to pass the ball to try to score a goal - and we found it at the end of the first half.
“We dropped in second half normally, but that didn’t happen today: we were incredibly focused.
“We didn’t create much but we didn’t concede anything.
“It was long balls where we struggled with the second balls.
“It was a little bit more uncomfortable, but we defended really well.”