Manchester Metropolis boss Pep Guardiola chatting with BBC’s Match of the Day:
“Some moments, some issues actually good, different issues no. However that is good, we have now margin to enhance. Defensively so good in lots of features, aggression. However with the ball we’re nonetheless away from what we have now to do.
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“That they had possibilities as a result of our spots to play weren’t good. That is the issue. It was fairly just like Leeds. They’ve high quality – [Lucas] Paqueta, [Crysencio] Summerville – we have been in harmful positions. We weren’t in the appropriate spots with the ball. Nonetheless we’re not courageous sufficient to interrupt the strains and do it. However I am actually joyful about place within the desk, we’re near the highest of the league, Champions League we’re there, Carabao Cup semis. We’re lacking seven gamers now – 5 injured, two AFCON – that’s powerful to deal with for a lot of video games. However we have now to enhance.”
On Erling Haaland: “The targets, he scores loads for us, however in the present day I’ve to thank him for the depth. Him, Phil Foden and Nico O’Reilly they helped us loads with the depth.”
Midfielder Tijjani Reijnders, chatting with BBC’s Match of the Day:
“Solely the start of the second half we did not begin fairly so effectively. Massive a part of the sport we managed it and we may have made extra possibilities if we have been safer in sure conditions.”
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On settling in on the membership: “It is new, I believe, for each participant who comes right here. The ways are totally different from my different golf equipment; the blokes assist me loads with adjusting, and I really feel fairly settled right here.
“It is good. We placed on an excellent streak. For us, we have now to maintain going. It is not completed. Preserve strain on Arsenal, and it is a good time going into Christmas like this.”
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Manchester Metropolis’s Erling Haaland has scored 19 Premier League targets this season; it is the joint-most by a participant in a marketing campaign earlier than Christmas together with Andy Cole (1993-94), Kevin Phillips (1999-00) and Luis Suárez (2013-14).
Manchester Metropolis are simply the third facet in Premier League historical past to attain 3+ targets in six successive wins in opposition to a facet, after Arsenal in opposition to Sunderland in October 2007 and Manchester United in opposition to Nottingham Forest in December 2022.