Nigeria forward Kelechi Iheanacho was an unused substitute as Manchester City qualified for the fourth round of the Emirates FA Cup after demolishing West Ham 5-0 at the London Stadium on Friday night. Teams in the Championship and League One can beat teams in the Premier League. “We missed a good chance and conceded two more, so it was game over at half-time”.
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Arsenal won 5-1 in November.
It was the first FA Cup clash at the London Stadium!
“In the Bundesliga, it’s different and only one game and it’s very special – the final is one game”.
Like West Ham, City could field a weakened side, with the likes of Kelechi Iheanacho and Fabian Delph perhaps in line for a start.
Guardiola added: “He realised immediately with these sort of balls into the box he had to be careful”.
A lot has been discussed in the press regarding Pep Guardiola’s future after the Manchester City manager recently revealed he would retire early. But then we started to chase them on a big pitch which is very hard to do against them.
“But it is never easy in any league, especially here”.
While it is far too soon to say his philosophy will not succeed in England, he certainly looks frazzled and could do with City recapturing the swashbuckling spirit that saw them mark his arrival with a 10-game winning streak.
To celebrate City’s 2016, we have chose to open the vault and look through the FIVE best goals scored by the club past year… Dimitri Payet may be rested, but the Frenchman wants to play and will probably start and try to score some free kicks on Bravo/Willy.
“He is still our player until he goes somewhere but mainly because of the situation with his contract he is finished here”, said Bilic. “We changed our system and played with a diamond”.
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Pique has been touted by many in leading the club after his career gets over and his former teammate and captain, Carlos Puyol has also claimed that he sees Pique as FC Barcelona president in the future.
