Twice selected in the Premier League team of the year and voted as Manchester City’s player of the year in 2014, Yaya Toure has been one of the best players in the top flight since joining City in 2010.
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For the Hammers, the result meant they became the first club in a decade to win at Arsenal, Liverpool and City after a summer in which the club bolstered their squad with the signing of several players, including Dimitri Payet from Marseille.
Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure.
For tonight’s visitors this is their first round in this season’s Capital One Cup, as is standard for all teams who compete in Europe. Like West Ham, even Leicester, Stoke spending on players from Barcelona.
“Why be rested? I look younger and I want to play more“. “It’s hard , the Premier League“. “We played well against West Ham but we were unlucky again – the same as against Juventus”.
He added, “What are we going to do?”
With a domestic league getting stronger each season, he does not believe anyone will emulate Arsenal’s unbeaten 2004 campaign let alone winning every match. We have been shooting, I don’t know how many times, and I missed chances too.
Toure, whose City future had been in doubt in the past with his outspoken agent suggesting he could leave, said he feels he has a new lease of life this term. “I should have blown the hand off the keeper, but it’s football”.
“Definitely he will come back“, he said. He was injured a few days ago and now he is back and it’s not easy.
“It’s only six games in, with thirty-two to go and it’s going to be tough, but it’s good for the league and the fans as well (that West Ham won)”. What’s important is the last game of the season and whether you lift the trophy, or have lifted a couple of trophies.
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Reacting to their defeat, Toure admitted that his side started well but lacked extra efforts against West Ham, and insisted that they have to overcome this upset and comeback strongly. “It’s the little margins”.
