Published 13:24 IST, December 22nd 2019
Pep Guardiola praises in-form Kevin De Bruyne after win against Leicester City
Pep Guardiola was full of praise for his Belgian midfielder after the match and said that it will be a difficult task for him to rescue the team every match
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Manchester City manr Pep Guardiola was of full praise for in-form midfielder Kevin De Bruyne after City's 3-1 win over Leicester City on Saturday evening even though Belgian was t on scoresheet.
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Pep's praise for De Bruyne
Guardiola said, "Kevin we don’t have doubts about. We cant expect him to win game every three days for us. It’s t just with ball it’s without. He has everything. We want to play good. We have to make a fluent attack and today we did. most difficult thing in football is to play simple and today we did it. n everything comes and quality of players comes out. In two seasons before we played a lot of games way we did today. Hopefully, in future we can continue at this level."
match began with energy and intensity that was expected and both sides had a number of chances before red hot Jamie Vardy drew first blood after lobbing ball over Ederson. However, former Leicester player Riyad Mahrez quickly restored parity as ball albeit a heavy deflection off Soyuncu. Ilkay Gundogan scored a penalty after Raheem Sterling was fouled for home side to lead at half time.
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De Bruyne received picked ball in Leicester's half and strode forward and moving past defence with relative ease to cut back ball cross penalty box and allow Gabriel Jesus to score a tap in. win stations City a point behind Leicester on points table with 38 points and 11 points behind league leaders Liverpool.
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De Bryune himself said, "I think it was a really good game. Defensively we had a lot of energy and except one or two chances, I felt we dominated game fully. We played really well. I think mentally we’re very strong. Today was a really good performance and every game we’re going to do our best and play to our best level.”
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07:27 IST, December 22nd 2019