Aguero will be back for City’s next league game but Nolito faces three matches out after his 86th-minute red card for motioning a head-butt at Adam Smith as they squared up and went forehead to forehead.
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How said: “It was a hard one for him because the team didn’t get high enough up the pitch to see his true quality, and that’s where he’s going to excel for us – in the attacking third”.
“Of course, we are going to try and win our League Cup game”.
Throughout his stellar coaching career, 45-year-old Spaniard Guardiola has managed some of the world’s finest players, including Xavi and Andres Iniesta at Barcelona and Arjen Robben and Thomas Muller at Bayern Munich.
“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”.
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has lavished praise on his footballers, the former English Premier League (EPL) champions, who have given a great start to the current season. I thought they were very good with the ball. The midfielder sat out preseason and City’s first six games of the campaign and said it was fascinating to be on the sidelines watching his new teammates get to grips with Pep Guardiola’s tactics.
One player who has gone from being a zero at Chelsea, where he barely played, to a hero at City is Kevin De Bruyne.
“He knows absolutely everything, he sees absolutely everything and in front of goal he makes assists and scores goals”. He decides what he has to do in the right moment every single time. “That’s why he is a player at another level”.
“I am lucky and we are lucky to have him”.
“The most important thing is that we have a good build-up and that every player knows what he has to do so it doesn’t matter which role the manager gives us”.
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He guided his side to their eighth consecutive victory on Saturday as they demolished Bournemouth 4-0 at the Etihad.
