Guardiola made the admission ahead of today's visit of Liverpool.
"We are learning to play better in different ways,” he explained. “Still I have the feeling defensively we are not like I’m dreaming of - like when we concede few chances and few goals but it’s fine although we don’t compare with Arsenal who are unbelievable.
“We are learning better to play better against different shapes - man-marking or low blocks whereas at the beginning, we struggled a little bit.
“The big teams who win things from my experience, when they arrive in the end in April, May, June, that his how much you grew up from September, October, and every month.
“The teams that win are the ones that rise. I have the feeling we get better but that doesn’t mean we can’t slip back in some games.”