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Ipswich Town 0 v 6 Manchester City
FA Premier League
Sunday, 19th January 2025 Kick-off 16:30
Guardiola: Everything Was Really Good
Sunday, 19th Jan 2025 22:14

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola felt “everything was really good” about his team’s display as they blew Town away 6-0 at Portman Road.

The Blues held their own for the first 27 minutes but after City scored twice in three minutes, Town were very much second best to the Premier League champions, whose recent form had been stuttering at best.

“Everything was really good. We were so aggressive and with the ball we were quicker, faster, wiser in the decisions we had to take,” he said.

“The most important thing today is the result for obvious reasons but also the fact that they realise what we were.

“We realised that when we do this, OK we can compete, and be a team like we enjoy doing what we like to do.

“Hopefully the players can feel it. We talked a lot recently about what we missed. Especially we have had a lot players not here.”

The Spaniard, whose team are up to fourth, had praise for centre-half Ruben Dias, who returned to the team, Phil Foden, who netted twice to take his recent tally to five goals in his last three Premier League games, six in his last six in the top flight and his career total to 100, and Kevin De Bruyne.

“Having Ruben in the team is massive,” he said. “Phil has not been there the first two or three months. When he’s smiling every day, every game is two or three goals.

“Kevin wasn’t there last season, this season maybe no, but now he’s playing at a level where we know he is an exceptional player that Kevin is.

“Step-by-step, hopefully more players can come back, we can be more consistent and do this sort of performance more often because so far this season we haven’t done it.”

Winger Jeremy Doku was involved in five of the six goals and Guardiola felt the Belgian international was outstanding.

“Today he was brilliant, and I’m really pleased for him,” he added. “Today we played Jeremy there because he was training good and against Salford in the FA Cup he played really good as well.

“Always Jeremy has doubts about his consistency every three days, because of injuries simple as that.

“For the way we play and in the final third, to have a player that can dribble one or two central defenders, the scenario is open and completely different to attack in the final third and today he was brilliant, really good.”


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MVBlue added 22:52 - Jan 19
FFP
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FromIpswichToPhoenix added 23:14 - Jan 19
Easy to beat a lower league team when your accountants haven't played fair over the years.

Man City - 115
Ipswich - 0
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Trequartista added 00:14 - Jan 20
Don't really understand any of that. Perhaps he's still learning the language.
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mehrad added 00:28 - Jan 20
The first 20 mins was VERY encouraging. After that it was the Jeremy Doku show - what a difference maker. We were backing off of him into the penalty area and from then on, it was a toss-up whether City were going to score.
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Bert added 14:34 - Jan 20
Doku man of the match.
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Cheshire_Blue added 16:07 - Jan 20
for the first 20 minutes we marked Doku tightly and he did little damage. We then seemed to give him more space and look what happened. Why did we change our approach ?
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churchmans added 19:13 - Jan 20
Phucking 2bob club who have bought there succsess!
I remember when they where chit! Always have been mediocre until the arabs turned up before psr days!
There stadium is full of tourists!
Just like the camera phone snapping supporters sunday night!
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churchmans added 19:13 - Jan 20
And im not bitter lol!!
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LimerickTractorBoy added 06:05 - Jan 21
Are you sure you're not Churchmans lol
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