City won their Champions League game midweek 4-0 and Guardiola spoke about the importance of their victory last night, “The important thing is we won a game just a few days after a Champions League game”.
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He will then net his first UEFA Champions League goal against German Bundesliga side Borussia Monchengladbach at The Etihad. It is better to stay back and don’t read too much. I heard from years ago the Premier League is the toughest league and I am going to accept that. We’ve been beaten 4-0 and it hurts a lot.
“So we are who we are and we are so, so lucky we have Kevin with us”.
Asked if he thought De Bruyne was the Premier League’s best player, Guardiola said: “I don’t know”. “Messi is on his own in the table, but Kevin is in the next table and he is right up there”. “But the table beside, Kevin can sit there”, said Guardiola. “I’m feeling good every time I play with my team-mates, playing to instruction to play good”.
“Without the ball he is the first fighter and with the ball he’s clear”. He sees absolutely everything. He decides what he has to do in the right moment every single time. That is why he is a player on another level.
The 25-year-old’s intelligence, running with the ball and vision made him a constant threat and his link-up play with Sterling, Nolito and Iheanacho left Bournemouth bemused.
“We will take care of him and I hope he will enjoy it with us to play his fantastic football”.
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.
But manager Eddie Howe claimed it was an unfair performance by which to judge the England worldwide.
For Bournemouth it was always likely to be a hard afternoon but Howe felt his side still should have done better and hopes lessons are learned.
“They were excellent”, Howe said of City. And against Bournemouth it was until now, the best team (we have faced) who created more problems when they had the ball – the other teams played long balls. Our plan wasn’t to sit as deep in the first half but we ended up getting trapped.
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Attacking midfielder Nacer Chadli marked a superb home debut with two goals and two assists for West Bromwich Albion as they beat hapless West Ham United 4-2 at the Hawthorns to hand the Londoners their third straight Premier League defeat.
