Guardiola’s perfect start ended after his team only tied Celtic Glasgow 3: 3, but citizens have nothing to be ashamed of.
City started this season with a little halting win, but after the first match came mighty improvement, which was reflected in the 10 wins in a row. According to manager Guardiola, there is a still room for improvement.
Although City almost equalled the record of Tottenham in the season 1960 – 1961, when London club won 11 games and completed the double, manager brides head down. According to him, it’s these little steps forward in every match, which will decide the season.
In Celtic Park, we could see a fierce battle, and so far the toughest test for the City, which will allow the whole club progress forward, as Guardiola wished.
Celtic surprised everyone with a spectacular goal from Moussa Dembele already after 3 minutes, and if the Kolo Toure would score again in the 10th minute, things could turn out much worse for City.
Guardiola talked about how will the defeat come one day and the answer to it will be decisive. He wants stability from the team and the ability to deal with bad conditions. After equalising in just 8 minutes, it seemed that the English club grabbed the reins into their own hands and would go through the Celtic as a butter knife.
But the opposite was true and Scottish club took the lead again. This time, it was Raheem Sterling, who was pulling his club out of the bush. City players began to be uncertain and made silly mistakes in attack and in defence.
The Great match continued after the half-time break. Guardiola gave his wards new guidelines and was expecting to have no unexpected occurs. But the ball is round and Celtic scored again already after a minute and all Guardiola’s instructions were challenged at that moment.
No one expected this kind of performance from Celtic, because in their first match against Barcelona at the Nou Camp Celtic suffered a crushing defeat 7: 0. Brandon Rodgers said before the match, that it is a great challenge for the Scottish side and all players are looking forward to the match.
City was behind again for the 3rd time and had to act, this time, it took only 10 minutes for Nolito to score.
Celtic footballers enjoyed the game, they had played without respect like their opponent did not roll-out any of the opponent in the first 10 matches.
Clubs from the English Premier League could take a very big lesson from this match. They will seek to something similar, that Celtic reached this Wednesday. Guardiola, however, did not achieve successes in Barcelona and Bayern Munich just for nothing, this match was a really good experience for him to move on and take City another step forward.
source: guardian.com, foto: Flickr.com/Duncan Hull