Pep Guardiola has spoken of his satisfaction at reaching 250 Premier League wins faster than one other different supervisor within the historical past of the competitors.
Erling Haaland’s first half aim ensured the 1-0 victory over Brentford that took Guardiola to his landmark second.
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He hit the milestone in 359 video games – 55 matches faster than the following quickest supervisor with Alex Ferguson needing 404 video games to get to 250 within the Premier League and Arsene Wenger subsequent, requiring 423 matches to achieve the whole.
Talking in his post-match press convention, Guardiola was thrilled to attain one other piece of historical past.
“Thanks a lot, it means quite a bit or else you can not take these accolades,” he mentioned.
“It’s an honour for me to be alongside Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger.
“I’ll invite them to a very good dinner. Possibly not in Manchester – perhaps a spot with extra solar – no, we do it in Manchester.
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“It’s an honour and a pleasure to be a part of that within the Premier League historical past however in fact I say thanks to the membership and the gamers and all of the employees I had as a result of there are plenty of video games and we did it faster, quicker, higher and I’m actually, actually happy.
“Let‘s go for 250 extra.”
On the sport itself towards the Bees, Guardiola was blissful to gather three worthwhile factors that put us up into fifth within the Premier League.
He wished his workforce had scored extra throughout a dominant first half however was thrilled with the win and the progress his workforce have made within the opening two months of the season.
“Yeah, away sport, you win 1-0, you endure,” he added.
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“Within the first half we had been at one of the best we now have been for a lot of, many months, however we couldn’t rating extra targets which might have made the sport a bit simpler.
“We knew at half-time they’d push extra as a result of the Premier League and all the things is like that.
“They performed extra lengthy balls and the wind and it was a lot tougher and the lengthy throws – that man, I don’t understand how he’s [able to do that] and the corners we endure, however the sport was properly performed and we defend properly as a result of they didn’t create a lot probabilities.
“Within the first half we created virtually clear probabilities – a bit like in midweek towards Monaco.
“I’m happy for this month and we’re there and we’re getting higher and higher, sport by sport.”
The consequence was made potential because of stars at each ends of the pitch.
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Erling Haaland scored the successful aim within the first half whereas Gianluigi Donnarumma made a significant save from Igor Thiago after the break.
Guardiola praised each gamers as he addressed the media post-game.
On Haaland, he mentioned: “I mentioned one month in the past he’s one of the best and that 12 months we gained the Treble, I don’t know what number of targets he scored – perhaps 50 million targets.
“However now he signal a contract for a few years – we now have to search out him extra, however he’s extra concerned within the sport, not simply within the ending, he’s extra on the ball and he work quite a bit his ethic, urgent and I’m actually happy and I hope this week with Norway he can rating extra and are available again match for the Everton sport.”
On summer season signing Donnarumma, he added: “He performed a excessive degree very younger – he was 17 when he first performed for the nationwide workforce.
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“Now he’s 26 and he seems like he has been enjoying for hundreds of years.
“His composure and presence – and the keepers within the massive golf equipment have to avoid wasting a couple of probabilities if you end up enjoying good.
“Usually at golf equipment who performed good, you don’t concede a lot however on this motion, he had to put it aside and he did it at the moment.
“The motion was clear, we made a mistake and it was 1v1 and towards a workforce who play lengthy balls, thrown ins, Gigi is there and that helps us quite a bit.”