However, one sour note was the late injury to Kevin De Bruyne who looks set for a spell on the side-lines.
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Jonathan Pearce: “It would be a major shock if Pep Guardiola fails to make it a flawless 10 after his club record run, for a new manager, of nine victories in his nine opening matches in charge”.
But speaking after the clash, Guardiola said his side did not create enough proper goalscoring opportunities.
Football: Swansea City’s struggles have continued after lossing to Manchester City at Liberty Stadium.
After being dumped out of the EFL Cup by Manchester City just three days ago at the same venue, this poor home result has cranked up the pressure on Swans’ boss Francesco Guidolin.
“I didn’t think about what might happen at the start of the season”, manager Guardiola told www.mancity.com, following a 3-1 success against Swansea.
Referee Neil Swarbrick pointed to spot and Aguero took advantage, sitting Fabianski down with a Panenka penalty for his 28th goal in his last 27 league appearances.
“Now we are thinking of Celtic and then it will be Tottenham and that’s how we’ll go forward and at the end of the season, we’ll see how our levels were and whether we were better than our rivals or not”.
Think you can do better than Lawro? “We have to take it game by game, I know that sounds boring but that’s the way it is”.
It meant Guardiola became only the second manager to win his first six Premier League matches, joining Carlo Ancelotti.
“It’s hard to play the same team twice in just three days, Swansea played well and Llorente scored a fantastic goal”.
Guardiola has given Sterling a new lease of life and he has already doubled his goals tally compared to the same stage last season.
Pep Guardiola has warned the rest of the Premier League that Manchester City are far from where he wants them to be despite their ideal start to the season.
“I try to convince them, what they have to do – four, five, six seconds of effort – he can do that”.
Guidolin will be banking on Gylfi Sigurdsson to provide the spark from midfield after the Icelandic global grabbed the consolation goal when the sides met earlier this week.
Aguero, back in the team following a three-match domestic ban for elbowing an opponent, has netted 11 goals in six games this season, and he opened the scoring in the ninth minute, leaving marker Jordi Amat floundering with a brilliant first touch from Bacary Sagna’s pass, and finishing clinically.
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Probability of away win: 51%.
