Fernandinho scored the other goal for City, which has won its first three matches of the campaign to be level on points with title rivals Manchester United and Chelsea.
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City continued their 100 per cent start to the season with a 3-1 Premier League victory over West Ham on Sunday and were hugely impressive at times in doing so.
Aguero lashed out at Reid, hitting him in the throat with his elbow, in the 76th minute of the contest which floored the New Zealand global.
“Sergio Aguero has been charged for an alleged act of violent conduct which was not seen by the match officials but caught on video”, the FA said in a statement on its website.
There was no action taken at the time by referee Andre Marriner, but the incident could lead to a retrospective punishment for Aguero that could see him suspended for City’s derby clash with Manchester United at Old Trafford that comes after the worldwide break.
The neighbours will clash at Old Trafford following the worldwide break.
Regarding the Aguero incident, in which the Argentinian seemed to elbow Reid in the neck, Guardiola claimed he did not see it. “Hopefully nothing happens. If it happens, we accept and adapt and we will try our best”. “Raz has scored two goals, that’s good but for me the games before were more brilliant”.
“But of course we are so pleased, so pleased about his spirit”.
“I will see what you are talking about on TV and, after that, we are going to see”.
“We hung on until half time and I didn’t ask my team to turn the game around, just to show their qualities and enthusiasm and we did that”, he said.
Hammers boss Slaven Bilic played down the matter and said that Reid’s substitution had nothing to do with the incident. “He said he got something to the throat”. We put them under pressure and forced them to make some changes.
He saud: “You can’t say City didn’t deserve to win but it was a game of two halves”.
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David Silva believes Manchester City are getting better with every match under Pep Guardiola as they work on a playing style the midfielder regards as very much unique to them.
