Pep Guardiola reacted angrily to suggestions Manchester City could win four trophies in his first season in charge of the Premier League side.
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The Super Eagles player scored one and provided an assist, as City hammered Bournemouth 4-0 on Saturday in the Premier League.
In contrast, Guardiola suffered defeat in his first game as Bayern Munich boss, a 4-2 German Super Cup loss to Jurgen Klopp’s Borussia Dortmund.
“Numbers are numbers and records will be beaten”.
His strike during City’s match against Hull was the clinical Nigerian’s 10th Premier League goal for the citizens – from just 14 shots on target. “I need to keep improving and working hard every day to take my opportunity”.
“I don’t know him too much but from what I can see he is a guy who likes to be at home with his wife and kids”, said Guardiola. But we remained serious and in the end we won the game in a convincing way.
“We are happy we’ve got the win and it’s now time to concentrate on the games in front of us”. To be the best in the league, it depends if he is going to win the titles.
“We are in September”.
However, De Bruyne was reserved special praise as one of the best players in the next bracket under the current Ballon d’Or holder. I heard that the Premier League is the toughest in the world and that is an argument I am going to accept.
City were inspired to their fifth successive league win by Kevin de Bruyne, who scored the opening goal from a free-kick and then had a hand in each of the next three from Kelechi Iheanacho, Raheem Sterling and Ilkay Gundogan on his first start for the club.
Pep Guardiola was delighted Man City were able to beat Bournemouth, a side he thinks are the best his team have faced so far this season.
Guardiola added: “Messi is on a table on his own”. No-one else is allowed, but the table beside, Kevin can sit there.
“We played serious again – like a small team without the ball, which is what I like the most because people are so proud when their famous players run without the ball”. He sees absolutely everything. Some times what you do well, we win a lot of balls and could use it. could use a lot of counter-attacks.
The Algeria global opened the scoring right on the stroke of half time as he headed home from Christian Fuchs’ cross. That is why he is a player on another level.
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“So we are who we are and we are so, so lucky we have Kevin with us”.
