“After three of four months out, today we had a talk with him and he said he was ready”.
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“But that’s not the reason we lost to Man City”.
Manchester City’s 4-0 victory in the Champions League group stage opener against Borussia Mönchengladbach was certainly great, but there were bad news coming out of it.
Manchester United supporters have also responded to Guardiola’s remarks, mocking their Manchester rivals for not being able to sell-out their stadium for a Champions League clash. It’s our job. We need them in the Champions League to beat the best teams in the world.
“Hopefully against Barcelona and Celtic (their other group opponents), it will happen”.
Manchester City’s Champions League game against Borussia Monchengladbach has been postponed because of torrential rain, following a pitch inspection.
Guardiola did not go into specifics on Silva’s injury, which he does not think is serious but could rule the Spain worldwide out of Saturday’s Premier League match with Bournemouth.
It was another highly convincing performance by City, who did not even seem to get into top gear as they cruised to a seventh successive win under Pep Guardiola. Later that year, City were called out and sanctioned by UEFA for infringing Financial Fair Play regulations, a measure which many fans consider to have been excessive.
“I knew how important this game was”, Guardiola said. “They must forget it”, he told a post-match news conference. When we play against someone like that we have to play to our limits. Not all the teams can play this competition. We are first in the Premier League but the way we have played so far will not be enough to win the Premier League.
Aguero scored a goal in each half in open play and sandwiched those strikes with a penalty after a foul on Ilkay Gundogan.
Kelechi Iheanacho then smashed home from close range after good work from Leroy Sane to make it 4-0 in the final minute.
“All we can do is play every time better than the day before and the people say, ‘wow, I’m going to the Etihad Stadium because I spend 90 minutes there and I have fun. I don’t know if it is going to be this year, but we will try”.
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Gladbach coach Andre Schubert acknowledged the 24-hour delay had inconvenienced his team, but said it did not affect the outcome of the match. “We are all very happy to have him”.
