Manchester City Jamu Chelsea, Pep Guardiola Please Viewer Give Your Call To Sterling

Raheem Sterling (Instagram.com/@sterling7)

JAKARTA - Manchester City coach, Josep Guardiola hopes their fans can give a warm welcome to Raheem Sterling's presence. The reason is, The Citizens will host Chelsea on the Carabao Cup agenda.

The two teams will meet on the third matchday at the Etihad Stadium, Thursday morning WIB. Pep's good hope for Sterling's presence comes based on his contribution when he was still in City uniform.

"Thank you to me for all of them (Raheem Sterling and the other players who left in the summer)," Guardiola opened when asked about Sterling's attendance, quoted from Manchester City's official website, Wednesday, November 9.

What they have done for this club, I can only take my hat off. Thank you very much and I wish him all the best. I really wish him a good welcome here," continued Guardiola.

Sterling decided to move from Man City to Chelsea in the transfer market last summer. With the Blues, the number 17 player is always Graham Potter's first choice.

This season, Sterling has played 12 games and has scored three goals and one assist. In total, the player has recorded five goals and two assists for Chelsea in all competitions.

Referring to those statistics, Sterling feels Guardiola could be a serious threat to the Man City defense. However, despite being vigilant, Guardiola did not really put pressure on him.

Instead, the coach recalled that Sterling had helped Man City a lot in the last seven years. That's the reason for Guardiola for supporters to give a warm welcome to Sterling's presence at the Etihad Stadium.

"Maybe you forgot what happened last month, it's not a reality of what happened for six, seven years when he was here. He (Sterling) certainly deserves it and he deserves it (back)," he concluded.