It took what the manager himself admitted was ‘a little lucky’ by way of a late Sunderland own goal, but Pep Guardiola took away three points in his Premier League debut at the helm of Manchester City. “From tomorrow morning I will decide what’s best for the team (ahead of Steaua)”.
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“Hart can play – other players in the squad can play. I have a lot of respect for Joe but on that I decided for Willy”. “He gave me a lot of confidence for his build-up play, for his personality and that’s why I chose him”.
“In the end I have a squad and I decide what I see”. I saw many good things about the spirit of the team.
“That does not mean in the future they are not going to play or they are going to play”. “It was always Manuel Neuer playing”. Willy had more training sessions than Joe.
His team certainly got off to a ideal start, with Raheem Sterling winning a penalty that was converted by Sergio Aguero after only four minutes.
“It was a surprise for me”, he said.
“That is normal in the moment we are”, he said, acknowledging that the team was still gelling together. We played very good in the first 10-15 minutes.
Despite that warning shot he second half panned out in a similar fashion for the home side as they dominated possession with few clear sights of goal, although Aguero did flash one snapshot narrowly wide on the hour mark after a loose ball had fallen to him inside the area. “Yaya trained really good. We were constant, we fought, and that’s how we won”, he said.
Moyes added: “I’d like to say it’s a one off”. The boy was great, he was great today, he was great yesterday.
Eric Lamela scored the equaliser as Tottenham came from behind to draw 1-1 at Everton, for whom Ross Barkley had scored the opener after five minutes. “We’ve not hidden anything”.
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Moyes lost his first Premier League game since his dismissal as Manchester United manager, following a 2-0 defeat to Everton in April 2014, after replacing new England boss Sam Allardyce last month. The victory over Sunderland had been far harder fought than many anticipated. “We’d done a great job in containing them as best we could, the players had done great”. We had just about done the job but just about isn’t enough. When we have a game I just focus on this game. “We spoke many times about what they should do as a team and they did it”.
