“We are so lucky that we have Kevin de Bruyne with us”, Guardiola told reporters.
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The 25-year-old has said: ‘The Champions League is one of the biggest club stages you can reach and I think for players it is an honour to be part of it.
The win extended City’s advantage to five points over Everton, Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal, who won 4-1 at Hull, where Alexis Sanchez scored two goals.
The only real negative for City was Nolito being red-carded late on for aiming an apparent headbutt at Adam Smith – a decision the Blues boss said he had no argument with. Five of those have come in the league and the other three in the Champions League.
Islam Slimani scored twice on his debut as champions Leicester picked up where they left off in the Champions League in midweek, clinching their second league win of the season with a 3-0 win over Burnley.
Throughout his stellar coaching career, 45-year-old Spaniard Guardiola has managed some of the world’s finest players, including Xavi and Andres Iniesta at Barcelona and Arjen Robben and Thomas Muller at Bayern Munich.
“They have quality and when we let them play, they have a lot, a lot, a lot of quality”.
Pep Guardiola gives his reaction to Man City’s 4-0 thumping of Bournemouth in the Premier League. “Joshua King is a tough, tough striker and their wingers are so fast”. We have a lot of people on our staff just for that, to help the players to avoid becoming injured.
“Bournemouth was until now the best team, who create more problems when they have the ball”.
“They were better than us but I’m disappointed with our performance”.
Sterling impressed once more to continue his fine start to the season and Guardiola joked the England international’s good form is down to focusing more on football and less on social media. Our plan wasn’t to sit as deep in the first half but we ended up getting trapped.
City were 1-0 up after 15 minutes when De Bruyne cleverly fired a free kick beneath the wall and into the net.
City, however, certainly made things look straightforward as they outplayed Eddie Howe’s Bournemouth at the Etihad Stadium.
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“Fair play to them”. We want to see Jack in their half and in the final third but we didn’t get there enough so to see his best qualities was impossible today.
