“Our fans, they have to know we play for them”, said Guardiola.
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“Today the stadium is not completely full so the only thing we can do is play well so the people at home say, “Wow, next time I will be there”. Next time I will be there”.
“He played good but we can not forget he comes from a long-term injury”.
“It’s our job, we are here, but to play without our fans, there is no reason why we are here”. What I can tell him is there is a team behind him that is going to help him.
“They have to compete with each other and we’ll see on the pitch what is the best for that game. I need him to put pressure on John Stones, Nico Otamendi, Kolarov – all of them”.
“Maybe you don’t know them, but I know Mönchengladbach really well, and I know that in the few moments we arrived a little bit late with our pressure, we were not good”. Simon [City’s press officer], maybe you know better than me.
City’s emphatic victory over the Germans was their seventh successive win, continuing their superb start under Guardiola.
Aguero’s second hat-trick in the competition already this season and an injury-time goal from his replacement Kelechi Iheanacho saw City ease to the win. He’s a special player. On never being satisfied as a manager:”All we can do is work a lot”. Every game is a chance to improve.
Aguero scored a goal in each half in open play and sandwiched those strikes with a penalty after a foul on Ilkay Gundogan.
Gundogan arrived with a knee injury in a £20m move from Borussia Dortmund in June, and Guardiola admitted he was unsure whether the German global would be involved again against Bournemouth either.
The 28-year-old is confident that he can continue to score goals for the Sky Blues and he also added that he believes that new manager Pep Guardiola can turn him into a more complete striker.
“Our behaviour without the ball is what we did [well] in these seven games”, he said.
Silva was not risked after suffering a slight injury in a light training session.
Gladbach coach Andre Schubert acknowledged the 24-hour delay had inconvenienced his team, but said it did not affect the outcome of the match. We have been working and improving in the last three years. Everything’s run against us.
Christensen is now on loan to the side from Chelsea, and it is widely believed the defender has a bright future ahead of him. We couldn’t stop their build-up. We can not discuss his quality.
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He started the match for Man City and was impressive throughout before being substituted with just under 10 minutes remaining.
