Author: Munazza Rehman
Blues maintained their position at the top of the table with 18points. This has been a truly spectacular start to the season for Pep’s team. Even though, they won the match by 3-1 but their performance was not that much satisfactory as in the previous matches. Pep Guardiola said,
"We didn't create a lot of clear chances - we created a lot of 'almost' chances but final pass wasn't good enough today"
Bad news was the injury to Kevin De Bruyne, that's why Pep always urges for a big squad. I hope it's not serious injury. Manchester City already lost their skipper in the last match against the same team,Swansea. But on the positive note - Claudio Bravo was amazing, he is improving his game. Pep Guardiola praised his keeper;
"He mixed his passes; short balls to the central defenders or the long balls to the strikers helped us create quick counter-attacks."
Sergio Aguero scored on his return after a ban just after 8 minutes and put the Manchester City ahead against Swansea. City were dominant in the start. But soon after Sergio’s goal Llorente tied the game just after 4 minutes. Then Manchester city were in trouble, they were unable to find chances to score. The second half was more difficult than the first half. Manchester City provided them half chances to score but luckily they couldn’t. Later on, Sergio Aguero scored his 11th goal of the season on the penalty. Sterling followed his mate, and scored a brilliant goal. Sergio Aguero's record of 11 goals in 6 games was also praised by Pep. He said,
"I am so happy for Sergio. He scored a fantastic first goal today"
But he added that,
"He knows I want more and he can play better."
Ilkay was very good, his movement was impressive. He is really proving Pep’s selection best. But overall, there is lot to improve if they want to retain their winning streak. Pep will surely look into this and hopefully good results will continue. It's difficult to play the same team away from home twice in a week and then managed to win the match. It's great to see Sterling performing well. His goal was superb. He is certainly showing a worth of £49m player. Swansea was also playing brilliant game, credit must have to be given them too. Manchester City had missed some good chances. They need to work on the finishes.
Manchester City won all their 10 games in this season, Spurs won 11 games in 1960-1961. But it's a long way to go. Pep Guardiola also set a record by winning his first 6 matches as a PL manager equalling the record which is set by Carlo Ancelotti in 2009-2010. Hope so, he will continue winning streak to hold a solo record.
Fernandinho wisely said that,
"We have started exactly the same as last season with five wins in a row so we have to be careful."
Along with that, Sergio Kun Aguero is the top scorer in the Premier League with 5 goals, Antonio and Costa also scored 5 goals. Sergio was ban and missed games but on his comeback he levelled with top scorers. Not even 3 matches ban can stop him from being the top scorer of the Premier League.
So, now they have to prepare themselves more as Manchester City will face Tottenham and Celtic next week.
This is the "Manchester City" - good combination of players along with a genius coach.
Week 6 Results;
Man United 4 - Leicester City 1
Liverpool 5 - Hull City 1
Bournemouth 1 - Everton 0
Swansea City 1 - Manchester City 3
Stoke City 1 - West Brom 1
Sunderland 2 - Crystal Palace 3
Middlesbrough 1 - Tottenham 2
Arsenal 3 - Chelsea 0
It was an outstanding game by Arsenal. Ozil was superb, Alex and Alexis were good too. With this victory, finally they are on 3rd position.
West Ham 0 - Southampton 3
