The strong message that Guardiola sends
Guardiola and City
Manchester City managed to return to victory against Lutton Town after 4 games without victory in the Premier League, something that has cost them first place in the table. However, things are improving greatly and despite the fact that Haaland was not available in this match, Pep Guardiola knew how to move his pieces in a great way for the English team to achieve an important result.
Luton Town surprised them at Kenilworth Road but the Citizens settled everything with a burst of two goals in four minutes. Manchester City won again in the Premier League after four games. Manchester City returned to play in Luton after 25 years and took a while to adapt to a playing field that was adverse to them.
Without Haaland, who was out at the last minute due to a foot injury, Guardiola’s team handled the ball much better, but lacked precision in the hot zone, and could not translate his superiority into clear situations. Luton battled in every sector of the field and found light on the last ball of the first half, after recovering in their own half Dougthy floated down the right and Townsend lifted the cross that Elijah Adebayo headed in to make it 1-0.
But Manchester City regained form in the second half and managed to come back with a flurry of goals. As the quarter of an hour passed, Bernardo Silva came across the ball after entering Rodri’s area and sent it to save with a very good shot to equalize. Immediately, three minutes later, Julián Álvarez pivoted the ball and then attacked down the right wing to launch the low cross that Jack Grealish hit with his left foot into the opposite post.
Guardiola’s message after the victor
yThe Manchester City coach spoke about the good feelings that the match left. “The people say it’s over [for Manchester City] but we want to make them wrong and believe that still it’s not over, still we want to be there [challenging]. Will we be able to? It depends on us how we perform…”