Manchester City Vs Leicester City Involved In A Thriller Game, Guardiola Admits It Feels Like Riding A Roller Coaster

Pep Guardiola (Twitter @ManCity)

JAKARTA - Pep Guardiola admitted that he felt like he was riding a roller coaster ride when he accompanied Manchester City to host Leicester City and win 6-3 in the English League Boxing Day match at the Etihad, last Sunday night.

City were comfortably 4-0 up at half-time thanks to four goals in the opening 25 minutes, but that lead was almost wasted when Leicester scored three goals in ten minutes early in the second half.

However, Aymeric Laporter widened City's lead again before Raheem Sterling scored his second and sealed a 6-3 win just three minutes from normal dispersal.

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"It's like a roller coaster," said Guardiola, opening his post-match comments quoted by Antara from the City's official website.

"It's a typical Boxing Day match, full of goals raining. It's certainly entertaining for most people. But the most important thing is that we won and continued the positive trend," he added.

Guardiola admitted that he was quite surprised by Leicester's streak of three goals in ten minutes in the second half scored by James Maddison, Ademola Lookman, and Kelechi Iheanacho.

However, he has warned his players because Leicester looked dangerous in the first half every time they had the ball.

"Of course, I didn't expect it. But at half-time, we were talking that we were 4-0 up and scoring chances, but every time the opponent had the ball they also threatened our defense," he said.

"The game was so open. They are a big team full of quality and then the change to the 5-4-1 scheme changed things," said Guardiola.

The Spanish tactician also admitted there were concerns when Leicester went down 3-4, but his players remained patient in creating chances and finally managed to win.

"Football is like that, it's unpredictable, anything can happen and the players scored those two late goals," he said.

"Full credit to the players. Sometimes this team performs well and when that happens you can see what they did. It was a really good performance, we could have scored more goals."

Victory over Leicester put City firmly at the top of the table with 47 points, six ahead of Liverpool who had their Boxing Day clash with Leeds United postponed due to a spike in Covid-19 cases.

City will next travel to the headquarters of promoted Brentford on Wednesday (29/12) carrying the mission of extending a winning streak that has now reached nine games in a row.