Kevin De Bruyne on life under Pep Guardiola: “It’s a little adjusting, but it was okay”.
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“I prefer it if he stays there training and focuses on the next game”. I know how good a goalkeeper he is, but I decided for Willy.
City still have injured trio Vincent Kompany, Ilkay Gundogan and Leroy Sane to return to the squad while Brazilian forward Gabriel Jesus will join up when his loan spell at Palmeiras ends in January.
“This is all good for team spirit”. It’s not about tactics. “I don’t think I’m the one to judge”. In Barcelona, in (Bayern) Munich, it was hard to repeat a line-up. “It’s a decision he won’t have taken lightly”. I’m not afraid about that. What I feel, I do it.
“We don’t know anything”.
“It’s not that Joe can not play or Yaya or Sami or Mangala. But today I decide for that, for many reasons”.
The big take-away from the game was how the former Barcelona boss deployed his full-backs in inverted and very central roles, which was something he had done at Bayern Munich from time to time.
He said: “I enjoy my job preparing the games, seeing what is going to happen and anticipating what the players are going to find during the game, and trying to find solutions”.
Defoe, who saw Willy Caballero save his first-half effort, levelled on 71 minutes with a close-range finish before Paddy McNair nodded the ball into his own net late on for City’s victor.
Guardiola, 45, has won the competition three times – once as a player and twice as a head coach – and will stress the importance and beauty of the tournament to his players in advance of kick-off. So we try to be five against four. Barca also have 27-year-old Jordi Masip, who has started just one game for the club.
“They didn’t create too many chances”.
He reportedly tabled a transfer request earlier this week, but Moyes said that Kone had no knowledge of a statement that had been attributed to him by British media.
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“We didn’t have enough of the ball and when we get it I want us to give the crowd something to shout about”. Everton are keen to add him to their ranks as they look for the long-term successor to their erstwhile No. 1 Tim Howard.
