A fantastic win filled with six academy players that really showed the chops of them all. Foden and Musaka led the way as they played well together.
Add a game Trafford and solid rotation side and we win
a clean game with no injuries. On to the next!
Pep Guardiola Reaction
“I think we played a really good performance and defensively we improved a lot.
“I know all the time from my experience that games in the FA Cup, Carabao Cup, away in the Championship, League One, League Two, it’s always tricky.
“And always we behave really good. I’m happy for John [Stones] and Nathan [Ake] who played really good and all the other guys.
“The new ones, old ones they perform in the way we try to define as the team.”
“Phil playing behind the striker is a real threat,” said Pep.
“We would have liked to score a second goal and make the substitutions before for Nico O’Reilly and Phil because they played a tough game against Arsenal three days ago.
“But they are young. They have good vitamins during the days, good food, good protein and yeah, now come back to Manchester to prepare [for Burnley].
“We have seen already Phil in a few games when the team play better.
“When every player makes his potential – but it’s not just today – the games against Arsenal, United and Napoli he was really good.
“I prefer a rotated team and today was perfect for many players – Oscar played good, Savinho played good, and all of them were aggressive, without the ball we were really good winning duels so in terms of that I’m really satisfied.”
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