An excellent match and vibes increase.
A really convincing win regardless of some backline shakiness! Manchester City surge with 5 (!) objectives from Erling Haaland and one from Mateo Kovacic.
On to the response after a wanted win to advance within the cup and now put together for the derby Sunday:
Pep Guardiola Reaction
“I think Erling needs a guy with the vision, the quality and generosity,” the boss stated. “Kevin is a much less egocentric participant in entrance of the aim, and if he may have helped him rating one other one, he would do it.
“And Kevin wants the motion from Erling however after all we all know how aggressive they're.
“Stefan [Ortega Moreno] was wonderful with the lengthy passes – not only for Erling – to the gamers in between.
“As much as we can we make every player has three or four touches and we can make extra passes and move the structure that they have and they did it really well.”
“It’s a completely different game – when you have these up and down transitions when you can have metres behind them to run it’s difficult to control, but they have courage to do it,” he added.
“What can I say? The passing was good, the goals were good and we had two or three more chances to score more. The players played really well.”
Notable Tweets
Haaland hat trick and De Bruyne hat trick pic.twitter.com/ZevTpqk11u
— ⚡️ (@Priceless_MCI) February 27, 2024
Title a greater duo. We'll wait. pic.twitter.com/NrerPf2pG5
— Manchester City (@ManCity) February 27, 2024
✅ Haaland scoring once more
— Amos Murphy (@AmosMurphy_) February 27, 2024
✅ KDB helping once more
✅ Six objectives scored
✅ Full relaxation for Rodri
✅ Full relaxation for Foden
✅ Into the FA Cup QF
Fairly the evening’s work for City pic.twitter.com/09urXfJLcs