Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is confident that the Premier League reigns champions have made an “incredible investment” to Nico Gonzalez, who seemed to a “mini-rodri” after the 4-0 victory over Newcastle United .
City put behind the disappointment on Tuesday night Defeat of the Champions League against Real MadridScoring a great victory at home on one side of Newcastle in Contentious for the first place of the Premier League.
Omar Marmoush stole the headlines, taking his first city goals in a certain style to record a hat-trick, before James Mcatee added the brightness to what was an excellent performance by the team.
Abdukodir Khusanov was successful in dominating Newcastle’s prolific forward, Alexander Isak, but it was Gonzalez’s performance who caught his manager’s attention. Guardiola was properly impressed by what he saw of the 23 -year -old, who joined Porto for 50 million pounds, but the head of the city was completely surprised by the levels offered by the first. Barcelona Academy graduate.
“Nico’s presence helps us a lot in the 50/50s,” said Guardiola. “He wins seven and we can run. If he loses seven, they would run. The club made an incredible investment for the future. He was a player at the Barcelona Academy, which is the best in the world to teach – The body forms.
“(EX -Porto Sergio) Concepicao helped him a lot to improve being aggressive and smart and how to play different types of games.
“She is 23, like a mini-rodri. She is a great fulfillment, but she has a feeling with this presence. She wins the duels. She is far away in other things because Rodri is the best.”
Gonzalez had debuted in his city in a combative Makes a quarter tie with Leyton Orient One week ago, but he couldn’t finish the game after picking up a 25 -minute hand.
Here he completed 100 of the 103 passes attempted (97%), won the four ground duels he played, recovered his possession four times and passed the ball to the final third of Newcastle 15 times: a Rodri skill has perfected to the Long years to help the city transition from defense to the attack attack.
