Pep Guardiola said Town have something special abut them given their progress from League One to the Premier League following his side’s 4-1 defeat of the Blues at the Etihad Stadium.

Town went ahead through Sammie Szmodics’s first goal for the club on seven but three goals in 191 second five minutes later all but won the game. Erling Haaland completed his hat-trick in the 88th minute, the Norwegian having scored the first, from the spot, and third, Kevin De Bruyne having grabbed the second.

“The team started really well on the front foot,” Guardiola said. “We played really good, but the opponents made an exceptional action and credit to them.

“We started on the front foot, always we talk about that, and it is not good enough for what we achieve.

“This is the only problem we can have. When I see how we started and how much respect we have for them. 

“I said as they come from the Championship to the Premier League, it’s because they have something special.

“I saw the game against Liverpool and how tough it was. At home in their own stadium, it was maybe more difficult than it was today.

“But we played on the front foot and in the first half we created enough for four or five goals and the game would be over.

“At 3-1 it is always ‘uh-oh, score a second goal and it would have been a problem’. We behaved at a level that we started at Stamford Bridge today. With the lack of preparation we had, to go two for two is really good.”

Regarding hat-trick scorer Haaland, he added: “He can compete in terms of goals with Ronaldo and Messi.

“The numbers are incredible for his age. He’s an incredible threat for us and we’re really happy to have him.

“Hopefully he can be here for many years. That would be really good for us. You know how important he is. The numbers, scoring goals is unbelievable.”

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algarvefan added 22:12 - Aug 24 Our players and staff can take some comfort from the kind comments we have had from our opponents managers, we will compete guys, just hang in there for a few months and watch us improve. I still say mid table for Town and that would be a hell of an achievement. Keep the faith in McKenna we trust.
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Gforce added 22:33 - Aug 24 It's nice to hear kind words from Slot and now Guardiola,but they are always more complimentary after a victory. Let's wait and see how affable opposing managers are,when we start beating them hopefully starting with Fulham next week.
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victorysquad added 22:43 - Aug 24 We progress every game, regardless of outcome we will progress again this week at Wimbledon and then against Fulham. Trust the process we will be back in Europe within 3 years
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TimmyH added 23:25 - Aug 24 Gforce...spot on post
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MVBlue added 23:43 - Aug 24 Got a real flavour of being up and close to the Citeh machine today and their fans who seem to be a proper local club that have absorbed this Rich owner world class players normality. Pep Mr. Cool with the skills to harness a mega money squad with all the facilties and none of the politics. Is it good for football who knows, but they sit on their perch.
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jollyroger added 23:47 - Aug 24 Why didn't M O T D show our penalty shout that McKenna says he thought was a pen
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Ryorry added 00:10 - Aug 25 @TimmyH - Pep still a lot, lot classier than any of the MotD pundits, who couldn't be a'd to give us more than a single mention in their entire post-match analysis - and that was only to say how Sh1tty should have closed us down for our goal ... grrrrrr.....
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Flamencaman added 00:29 - Aug 25 Jollyroger the only difference between pens was one was for city the other was for Ipswich if city’s was ours certainly was a pen, City were pretty good first half but 2 howlers from us rash tackle and a goalie error, Hladky wouldn’t of made that one, Walton certainly wouldn’t made it easy for them
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bluesman added 00:33 - Aug 25 Well watch MOTD there was only one team playing today wasn’t there?
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churchmans added 01:03 - Aug 25 I was at the game today and let me tell you that our keeper was absolute pony!!!! He needs intense coaching! No f***g way can you be that poor in any leauge let alone the prem leauge
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blues1 added 01:44 - Aug 25 Churchmans. Pathetic comment. The guys making his debut at man city of all places. You dontcthunk maybe he was nervous? Yes, he's made 2 mistakes, which unfortunately at this level, we will get punished for. Give him a chance for gods sake before writing him off. No mention I see, of his world class save in the 2nd half. Or of Davis's poor challenge for the penalty? No, let's just slate the debutant keeper.

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Nomore4 added 08:16 - Aug 25 Our season starts now…
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Gazelle added 08:55 - Aug 25 Churchman’s are you suggesting that we drop everyone who has one bad game. Leif has had two mares but he’s one of our best players.
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ipswichone added 08:55 - Aug 25 We can definitely compete in the premier league.but I am very worried after seeing muric in goal.can't catch,commits too early,and can't kick.Walton in goal against Fulham,and can see our first points.unfair after Walton started against Liverpool
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Swoody added 09:04 - Aug 25 Probably the same people slating Muric are same that slagged off Hladky after his debut. People need to trust the professionals running the club rather that slagging players off after their debut. If you can’t do that go support someone else.
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Monkey_Blue added 09:39 - Aug 25 Churchmans…. Muric had a poor game, but if you judge players on one game they can all be Messi or Frank Sinclair depending on the game. I recall Hladky looked dodgier than Harry Redknapp’s accountant at the start of the Sunderland game last season… in fact without him in the end we would have come away with a point or less and wouldn’t have been able to claim we were robbed. We will as McKenna has said and as happened last season, improve as the season goes on. We had three players making their first start for us yesterday and greaves and Delap only their second. There probably isn’t a tougher game in world football than Man City away who haven’t lost at home for about 44 games.. Our Squad yesterday cost less than one of their subs( Grealish) so get some perspective.

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Monkey_Blue added 09:44 - Aug 25 Re: The penalty.. I watched the game live and the commentators both agreed at full speed it looked a penalty and the replays showed it was more a penalty than theirs and theirs was a penalty. How the VAR guys didn’t overturn the refs decision is inexplicable. ( if you are wondering, I got the New Zealand Sky Sport Feed via a fire stick)
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billlm added 09:58 - Aug 25 Muric plays like that, it's what McKenna wants a keeper with good feet, he will gain us points he will lose us points, Yesterday he was up against the best team in the world, On another day he dosent make the mistakes but the two that hit the bar go in a deficit of three at city il take, we won't be the only team with a deficit of three there,
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Writtleblue added 10:08 - Aug 25 I remember Walton was very edgy in his first game ,look how he turned out.
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tractorboykent added 10:23 - Aug 25 The people on here writing of Muric after a dodgy debut and bigging up Walton have short memories. Think back to Walton's debut where he - and a calamitous defence - shipped 5 at home to Bolton. It didn't stop him going on to be one of the main reasons we were promoted from L1 and it didn't stop him progressing to the point where he was excellent against Liverpool last week. Have patience and trust in KM & his staff.

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Cadiar added 13:35 - Aug 25 Surprised by the support & excuses for an inept performance by Muric. He's a highly paid professional & played like a pub team keeper. Listening to TalkSport this morning it seems he has an unwanted reputation for these sort of errors, he wasn't even 1st choice at Burnley. Can we loan him back to Burnley & have VH back because even though he made errors at least he could play a bit & his distribution was excellent. Apparently he could have had a career as an outfield player.

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churchmans added 13:58 - Aug 25 I don't care what any of you say! Keeper had an absolute mare! All of you talking to the contrary need to watch the game again! I was there I saw what I saw! Catastrophic debut sorry those are the facts!
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Rozeeboy74 added 11:51 - Aug 26 Not getting penalty decisions and TV bias is just something we need to get used to. I wouldn't expect anything but gushing praise for City from the 3 goons on MotD, especially Richards. But to criticise City for our goal rather than praise the timing of the pass and run was unfair.
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runningout added 13:05 - Aug 26 sorry Mr Pep, we already knew that!!
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