This Saturday, we could be lucky enough to witness the greatest Manchester Derby of all time. I had a long summer, a long season previous year so I need to take care of my body.
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I got the impression last season that when Manchester City got to the semi-finals of the Champions league against Real Madrid, they felt they had achieved enough.
Speaking to the Guardian, he said: “Pep knows how to adapt and I’m sure he’ll do so in England”.
A former Manchester United defender believes Jose Mourinho’s men will beat Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City in the title race this season.
Both sides have made a flawless start to the season, each winning their first three Premier League matches under their new managers, with Mourinho taking charge of his first Manchester derby in front of his own fans at Old Trafford. I have to say he was okay.
However, Guardiola took over a team that had won a Bundesliga, Pokal and Champions League treble under Jupp Heynckes, and Schmeichel feels Bayern’s direct style under the German was more exciting than Guardiola’s methods.
In addition, Ibrahimovic has scored four goals in four matches for United and is expected to start in the Manchester derby against Pep Guardiola’s side on Saturday.
Gundogan is one of two ethnic Turks now contracted to City with the other being 19-year-old striker Enes Unal who is on loan at FC Twente in the Netherlands. “For me, personally, he changed a really good, entertaining team to be become more boring to watch”, the Dane said.
Iniesta feels the City squad will have to get used to a “different way of understanding” how they are supposed to play under Guardiola, who is renowned for his preference for possession-based football.
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Pep Guardiola’sside have started the season in emphatic form and top the Premier League table on goal difference ahead of Chelsea and rivals United, who have also started the season strongly and also have maximum points.
