Guardiola, a two-time Champions League victor with Barcelona, also called on City’s supporters to end their practice of booing the competition’s anthem.
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City reached the semi-finals last season and began their sixth successive group stage campaign with a convincing 4-0 win over Borussia Monchengladbach in a delayed clash at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday.
The match was supposed to take place yesterday but was postponed due to a freak thunderstorm.
Pep Guardiola believes little credit should go.to him for Aguero’s goal scoring tenacity in the beginning of the season.
So, too, is Guardiola.
Manchester City’s Ilkay Gundogan was thrilled with his debut for the club during the thrashing of Borussia Monchengladbach.
“The first match is always hard with no tests except friendly games”.
Those unflattering statistics rarely looked like being extended after Aguero – now serving a three-match domestic suspension for an elbow on West Ham defender Winston Reid that the Football Association described as “brutal” earlier on Wednesday – converted Aleksandar Kolarov’s eighth-minute cross.
Aguero might have completed his hat-trick with Sommer making two good saves, but he was powerless to prevent what seemed to be the inevitable 13 minutes from time when the striker was set free by Sterling before producing the calmest of finishes.
Sergio Aguero says he fancies himself to improve on his goal tally from last season now Pep Guardiola is in charge at Manchester City. “He’s going to help us and we are so happy to have him here”.
“OK, the goals will come along. I want to convince him to help them and if it happens in that way he’s going to score a lot of goals, just like Kele (Kelechi Iheanacho) and all our strikers”.
After Tuesday’s postponement, Gladbach left tongue-in-cheek letters of apology to the bosses of the fans who stayed on in Manchester for an extra day on the seats in the away section.
The German club had its moments, such as when captain Lars Stindl brought a great save from City goalkeeper Claudio Bravo from a well-worked corner routine late in the first half.
The final 20 minutes turned into somewhat of an exhibition match as Gladbach rarely threatened and City continued to pepper the opponent’s goal.
“The whole team knew what to expect”.
Borussia coach Andre Schubert admitted it had not been a good trip.
“Our fans have to know we need them in the Champions League”.
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“We have to be so proud to play in this competition to play against the best teams in Europe”. We had to get everything right, be very courageous, attack high up with high intensity.
