Saturday’s 4-0 victory over Bournemouth made it five straight wins for City in the Premier League, and eight in all competitions under the Spaniard.
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But Guardiola believes there is still room for improvement in a team he has rejuvenated since arriving from Bayern Munich earlier this summer.
“Numbers are numbers and records will be beaten”.
“We’ve won five games in the Premier League but in our world it’s better not to read”. When you play a Champions League game, it’s so demanding, the physical condition, but especially in the head. “When I go out before the game, I have confidence that we are going to win”. I feel we can do better than that.
“We have to know we can get better”.
“Kevin is a special player”. I heard from years ago the Premier League is the toughest league and I am going to accept that.
Guardiola was delighted with the win after coming through an awkward midweek with a re-arranged game and also wants his team to be strong when the inevitable defeat does come. [Lionel] Messi can sit alone in the table, it’s not allowed anyone else, but in the table beside, Kevin can sit there, there’s no doubt’.
James McClean steered home a ball from Chadli to make it 3-0 before halftime, and the 27-year-old Belgian made it four 11 minutes into the second half when he finished a counterattack by firing Rondon’s pass into the net. He sees absolutely everything.
“It wouldn’t be fair to say Jurgen Klopp is more emotional, but when you see him on the sidelines living every minute, it’s not hard to understand why Dortmund were so successful under him”.
The Algeria worldwide opened the scoring right on the stroke of half time as he headed home from Christian Fuchs’ cross. That is why he is a player on another level. “We are happy to have him in our team”, Iheanacho said. “I hoped we could stay in the game but the second really hurt because we conceded from our own free kick”.
England midfielder Jack Wilshere failed to impress on his first start since joining the Cherries on loan from Arsenal.
But manager Eddie Howe claimed it was an unfair performance by which to judge the England worldwide.
“They didn’t let us breathe today”.
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“Bournemouth was until now the best team, who create more problems when they have the ball”.
