Manchester City managed to make a great comeback versus Berlin’s Red Star in the opening match of the UEFA Champions League.
Manchester City managed to make a great comeback versus Berlin’s Red Star in the opening match of the UEFA Champions League.
Manchester City has won its opening game for the group stage of the UEFA’s Champions League new season, making a comeback against Berlin’s Red Star with two great goals made by Julian Alvarez and a third and definitive point made by Rodrigo, who was selected as player of the match.
Manchester City is tied with for first place of his group, RB Leipzig, unfortunately for all Citizens fans, Pep Guardiola has bad news as for the end of the match, during a post game interview, the Catalunyan manager informed that striker, Bernardo Silva will be ruled out for the upcoming Premier League and UEFA Champions League’s dates.
The injury report on Bernardo Silva is still unknown, however, Pep Guardiola confirmed he will be added to the injury list along with John Stones and Jack Grealish. This last player is expected to return to normal activity within 7-10 days.
“We have five really important players injured. We can’t have 55 players… It is what it is. I am not going to say we have a lot of injuries. With the players we have, we will go for it…” said Pep Guardiola during an interview.
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Despite this terrible news expressed by Pep Guardiola, the Manchester City manager praised the great performances made by Rodrigo and Julian Alvarez, both players made the three points for the Citizens that helped them to make a comeback from losing 1-0 against Berlin’s Red Star in the beginning of the match.
When asked about the two consecutive goals made by the Argentinian Julian Alvarez, Guardiola said this about the World Champion, “He deserves it, every single game he is working, scoring and making assists. He deserves it.”.
“Hopefully he can be better and improve but he’s an extraordinary holding midfielder. We were lucky Man City signed this player and when he arrived he wasn’t this type of player. Now he’s one of the captains. He’s a top class player..”, Pep Guardiola said about Rodri ‘s performance from today’s match.