Successfully Defeating Liverpool 4-1, Guardiola Calls Man City's Best Performance In His Coaching Era

Manchester City Coach, Josep Guardiola (Instagram @mancity)

JAKARTA - Manchester City coach, Josep Guardiola recognized his team's performance as the best in his era. This follows a 4-1 victory that was secured from Liverpool. In the match at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday, April 1 evening WIB, City as the host conceded a quick goal by Mohamed Salah in the 17th minute. However, this situation did not make The Citizens discouraged, they actually appeared to insist again by scoring four goals. "The first minute until the 93rd minute was a perfect performance even though we conceded, we played very well," Pep Guardiola explained as quoted by BT Sport on Sunday, April 2. The coach's slick confession could not be separated from the four return goals scored by Julian Alvarez, Kevin De Bruyne, Ilkay Gundogan and Jack Grealish. The first name even managed to perform quite stunningly to replace the role of Erling Haaland who was absent due to injury. Guardiola also acknowledged the appearance of The Citizens who successfully thwarted Liverpool's transition to play as a great thing. He even sees this as one of the team's extraordinary performances during his leadership. "Liverpool has always had threats during the transition but we played very well. One of the best performances of my seven years," said the Spanish entrenador.

For the three points secured from Liverpool, City are now collecting 64 points. That number is five points adrift of Arsenal at the top of the standings. Meanwhile, Liverpool, who are ranked sixth, failed to cut the score with the team in the top four.