“Complacency is not going to happen while I am here”. I heard from years ago the Premier League is the toughest league and I am going to accept that.
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“It’s probably the best [coaching] team I have worked with and it doesn’t get mentioned a lot”.
The Chile global scored a goal in each half to inspire Arsenal’s third straight league win, four days after grabbing a late equalizer in a 1-1 draw against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League. My target now is to be happy today, drink a little wine and tomorrow prepare the game and of course we are going to try to win our League Cup game.
Guardiola won a glut of trophies with Messi during their time together at Barcelona and in his eyes, the Argentina superstar is the only player who can put De Bruyne in the shade.
“I have seen what happens when the trainer didn’t win, they have been so critical and they didn’t deserve that”.
The Cityzens routed AFC Bournemouth yesterday (September 17) 4-0 to maintain unbeaten streak in the English Premier League this season.
De Bruyne opened the scoring and set up Ilkay Gundogan for his side’s fourth goal at the Etihad Stadium, as in-form City made a statement of intent to their title rivals early in Guardiola’s tenure.
Kelechi Iheanacho doubled City’s advantage following a swift counter-attack in the 24th minute.
However, De Bruyne was reserved special praise as one of the best players in the next bracket under the current Ballon d’Or holder.
“We really have confidence after the win”.
“We played seriously, like a small team when we didn’t have the ball”, he said. “We didn’t allow them to play”.
Howe said: “It was hard for Jack”.
“It’s not easy but I’ve had a few weeks of training, I watched games on the TV, watched from the stands”.
“But they weren’t enough”.
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But the Spaniard played down the significance of that, emphasising instead that the important thing was winning again only three days after the 4-0 home Champions League triumph against Borussia Monchengladbach. “We are disappointed with our overall performance”.
