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Pep Guardiola was pleased with his side's win at Crystal Palace and believes his Manchester City side are shaping up well
Pep Guardiola toasted a fifth straight win in all competitions and then warned Manchester City’s new generation can become legends of the club. Top scorer Erling Haaland struck twice while Phil Foden was also on target as City blew Crystal Palace away to move back to within two points of leaders Arsenal.
And Guardiola sent an ominous warning to Arsenal and Aston Villa by insisting City will get even better as their new-look team can be just as successful and good as the past in the days of Kyle Walker and Vincent Kompany. City boss Guardiola said: “We are improving, new players came along and adapted many things. My only dream as a manager is be ourselves all the time.
“Perform like we are working and talking and doing and this is, I think, the reason why we had Vincent, we had Kyle. All the players who have been legends in this club had the composure. I had the feeling that we are getting better and this is what we want to feel.
“Today was 0-3 but against Sunderland we won 3-0 and we were good against Sunderland for 95 minutes. I cannot expect Palace don’t have chances or we lose the ball on transitions because they were the FA Cup winners. But how we approach, how aggressive we are, that made me so happy. Of course we are really pleased because I know how tough they are. To make 0-3 here is a great statement for us.
“From experience when you win in the past you believe the past is always perfect - brilliant, red carpets. When we won 100 points and all the titles we had a lot of games like this and the resilience was part of that. This will help us build something. We are in a better position than last season, we are close and this is what we are here to do.”
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