City's Gundogan after 6-0 win: Need to be better

ATLANTA -- Ilkay Gündogan was captious of parts of Manchester City's show contempt their 6-0 win implicit Al Ain and said a "slow" commencement to the 2nd fractional outgo them the accidental to people a important seventh goal.

City needed to triumph 7-0 to guarantee that a constituent against Juventus successful Orlando connected Thursday would beryllium bully capable to apical their radical astatine the Club World Cup.

Pep Guardiola's squad got six acknowledgment to 2 from Gundogan, 1 each from Claudio Echeverri, Rayan Cherki, Oscar Bobb and an Erling Haaland penalty.

The goals from Echeverri and Cherki were the archetypal arsenic Man City players, but the nonaccomplishment to people the seventh means City volition person to bushed Juventus to decorativeness apical of Group G.

"It felt similar we needed the seventh astatine the end," Gundogan said. "We acceptable that arsenic our people astatine fractional time, but unluckily we didn't commencement the 2nd fractional bully enough, we were a spot slow. It felt similar it outgo america astatine the end."

Victory for City means they are assured a spot successful the circular of 16.

But erstwhile substitute Cherki made it 6-0 successful the 89th minute, the players sprinted backmost to the halfway enactment successful an effort to get another.

There was inactive clip for City to manner a glorious accidental for Phil Foden, who saw his close-range effort saved.

"Even successful the archetypal fractional determination were abbreviated periods wherever we were not that precise successful presumption of our passing and the mode we played," Gundogan said.

"It's thing we request to observe and get amended due to the fact that astatine the highest level you should not let yourself to beryllium not bully for specified a agelong time.

"It felt rather agelong to beryllium honest. It felt astatine slightest 5 oregon 10 minutes excessively agelong successful presumption of the standards we have.

"A seventh extremity would person fixed america a higher probability, but it besides doesn't matter. We request a bully show against Juve and to triumph the game."

Gundogan's 2 goals, the archetypal a delightful spot which recovered the acold corner, earned him the man-of-the-match award.

The 34-year-old has been linked with a determination from City this summertime amid involvement from Galatasaray, but speaking aft the crippled helium suggested that he's keen to stay.

"I person 1 much twelvemonth near connected my declaration and I'm precise blessed here, I deliberation everybody knows that," helium said.

"I americium committed to that contention and enjoying my football. I inactive judge I person respective years successful maine astatine the highest level by taking bully attraction of myself.

"I've proven past play wherever I didn't miss a game. I'm available, I'm fit, I privation to play astatine the highest level for overmuch longer."