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Aguero hat-trick helps Man City trounce Moenchengladbach
It meant just 30,270 turned out to see City play the German side and Guardiola is desperate not to have so many empty seats again.
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Goals from Bernardo Silva and Thomas Lemar stunned the vast majority of the 85,011 fans at the national stadium – Tottenham’s adopted home for this season’s Champions League – before the hosts responded with a Toby Alderweireld goal. The striker was back in the team amid a three-match domestic suspension for elbowing an opponent, and he couldn’t have asked for two nicer opportunities to find the net in the first half. “We played really decent football tonight”.
Leicester City enjoyed the easiest possible introduction to Champions League football as two Riyad Mahrez goals helped them to brush off the limited Group G challenge of Club Bruges 3-0 in Belgium. We can not make something good in the Champions League in the coming years without them. The people are listening so I am sure they are going to do that.
Aguero completed his hat-trick in the 77th minute from close range after being set clear by Raheem Sterling and Kelechi Iheanacho made it 4-0 in stoppage time. If we didn’t get points in the first game at home against Gladbach, it would make games against Barcelona and Celtic more hard.
The Argentina worldwide is compiling some impressive numbers under new coach Pep Guardiola this season: Nine goals in five games; two hat tricks so far in the Champions League, with the other coming in the playoff round against Steaua Bucharest.
Aguero opened the scoring on eight minutes with a clinical finish and added a second just before the half-hour mark from the penalty spot.
“What I can tell him is there is a team behind him that is going to help him”.
Guardiola, meanwhile, has urged Sergio Aguero to have more faith in his finishing ability in the penalty area as he hailed Ilkay Gundogan’s sparkling long-awaited debut following his arrival from Borussia Dortmund.
“I know this Borussia team perfectly, I had never won against this coach before”.
“We knew how important a win was – we are in a very tough group – so it’s huge, and psychologically it was hard to wait another 24 hours”.
Despite attempting to alter their game plan in the first half itself, Monchengladbach failed to really test City and could not cope with Guardiola’s dynamic style of play.
“In the Premier League, everybody comes here, but in the Champions League the people don’t come”. It was summer signing Gundogan’s first appearance since suffering a knee injury in April. “He doesn’t lose the ball, he can arrive in the box, he has quality in both feet”.
“We are going to work until the last moment to convince the people to come here and join us, to watch the Champions League games”. “All the home games are so important for us”.
‘I was not here what happened but they must forget what happened in the past, ‘ said Guardiola, whose side were not inconvenienced by a 24-hour rain delay. It’s very different to three days at home – you’re in a hotel, there’s the stress of travelling.
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“But that’s not the reason we lost to Man City tonight”.