Aguero might have completed his hat-trick with Sommer making two good saves, but he was powerless to prevent what seemed to be the inevitable 13 minutes from time when the striker was set free by Sterling before producing the calmest of finishes.
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Speaking in his post-match press conference, the manager expressed his delight.
Also that year, many CSKA Moscow fans managed to watch a home game against City in group play despite the Russian club supposedly being hit with an empty-stadium order as punishment for racist behavior by its fans. Hopefully, against Barcelona and Celtic it will happen.
“I’m really happy with the new manager”.
“Our fans, they have to know that we play for them”, Guardiola said.
Guardiola is used to Barcelona and Bayern Munich who win their domestic leagues nearly as a matter of course and set their sights on doing well in the Champions League year after year.
He featured in City’s opening Premier League clash of the season and was handed a start in the Manchester derby, a statement of how far he’s come in 12 months.
A mere 30,270 people were at the Etihad to see a scintillating display as City swept aside Borussia Monchengladbach 4-0: a very poor turnout which was 25,000 shy of the stadium’s 55,000 capacity. “We created a lot of chances”. We dominated and we were so aggressive with and without the ball.
“It’s a good moment to enjoy our football with our fans”. In the Premier League everyone comes here but in the Champions League they don’t. “We need to concentrate on our league form and get some wins there and that’s where it matters”.
“We can not make something good in the Champions League in the up-coming years without them”. Everyone who deserves to be in the competition wants to win the trophy. “He was good with Manuel (Pellegrini) and he is good with the national team”.
“I can not teach that”. “I can not teach him that but he has to know that behind the rest of the team wants to help him and that is what I want to convince him”. “He is going to score a lot of goals”.
“They must forget what happened in the past”, said Guardiola.
“It’s going to be very tough and we’re in a tough group so this is a great start”. He is so intelligent – he knew exactly when to control the efforts.
Only what we can do is play every time better than before so people say, “wow, I spent 90 minutes there and I had fun”.
City wasted no time in taking the lead, with Aleksandar Kolarov driving a good low ball into the box and Aguero pouncing in typically clinical fashion from close range. We didn’t stop the build-up of the opponent and in one-on ones and in defence we didn’t show the quality we have shown in previous campaigns.
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We thank you being his boss for accepting his apology to stay away for one day. These things go unrecognised because of his goalscoring but he’s an all-round player for his size.
