The 25-year-old now has two goals and three assists in his first five Premier League games as City have stormed their way to the top of the table, and Guardiola insists the Belgium worldwide is among the best he’s coached.
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A late red card for Nolito after a petulant headbutt was the only blemish on an otherwise flawless afternoon.
Guardiola said: “The important thing is we won a game just a few days after a Champions League game”.
“I have heard from a long time ago that the Premier League is the toughest ever so I’m not going to accept now it’s so easy”. Watching that first half against United last week, it’s the best I’ve seen a team play in the Premier League.
And City boss Guardiola said: “I think he is a special, outstanding player”. Some times what you do well, we win a lot of balls and could use it. could use a lot of counter-attacks.
Kevin de Bruyne was hailed as playing football “on another level” by his manager Pep Guardiola after the Belgian maestro orchestrated another Manchester City symphony on Saturday.
They will face Swansea City twice next week, on Wednesday in the League Cup and on Saturday in the English Premier League.
City have scored four or more in half of their matches, netting 25 in all, in a stunning start to Guardiola’s tenure.
Sanchez stepped up to take the resulting penalty but saw his effort was saved by Jakupovic.
Sanchez put Arsenal ahead after 17 minutes, deflecting the ball home after a Theo Walcott shot was pushed into the path of Alex Iwobi, before the hosts had Jake Livermore sent off for handball.
Arsenal on their part completely outclassed their hosts Hull City winning by a 4-1 margin in a game in which Arsene Wenger opted to start Nigerian worldwide, Alex Iwobi who gave a good account of himself. “I hoped we could stay in the game but the second really hurt because we conceded from our own free kick”. But we played serious again.
“There are so many players there, who look so much more confident and better”.
“That is not going to happen when I am there”, the Spaniard said. They played at the Etihad Stadium and won the game very convincingly by 4-0.
Chelsea lost their first game of the season to Liverpool at Stamford Bridge in Friday’s fixture courtesy of goals from Dejan Lovern and Jordan Hendersson, Diego Costa’s strike was not enough to salvage a draw for the Blues.
After moving into its shiny new home at the Olympic Stadium, 2016/17 was supposed to signal the start of a new era for the London club.
Sergio Aguero has been in superb form and has scored 9 goals from five games under Guardiola with two hat-tricks in all competitions.
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Everton is the other unbeaten team along with City, and earned a fourth straight win after coming from behind at Goodison Park, lifting the team in second place.
