By Daily sports on December 22, 2020
Manchester City’s strikers will have to rediscover their scoring touch because reinforcements will not be signed in January, manager Pep Guardiola has said.
Guardiola explained that even with the backing of their Abu Dhabi owners, City were subject to the same financial pressures as their rivals due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
City has scored only twice in their last three league games but hope to welcome back Brazilian striker Gabriel Jesus for Tuesday’s League Cup quarter-final with Arsenal.
Manchester City’s strikers will have to rediscover their scoring touch because reinforcements will not be signed in January, manager Pep Guardiola has said.
Guardiola explained that even with the backing of their Abu Dhabi owners, City were subject to the same financial pressures as their rivals due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
City has scored only twice in their last three league games but hope to welcome back Brazilian striker Gabriel Jesus for Tuesday’s League Cup quarter-final with Arsenal.
Guardiola says the lack of goals harms their chances of catching Liverpool but he hopes City will be more clinical against out-of-form Arsenal.
“We are creating clear chances that we cannot score and when this happens we are always going to suffer,” he said.
“That’s why I’m not able to say how we will be this season.
“Game by game is the only thing I can do and now we go to London to play Arsenal in the League Cup.”
Guardiola, though, can be thankful that despite the misfiring front line his defence have been in miserly form with seven clean sheets in their last eight matches in all competitions.
“It’s incredible — that is how we can still be there, knocking on the door of teams above us,” said Guardiola.
“We need it to be stable and maybe one day players will be fresh to score the goals.” (AFP)
•PHOTO: Pep Guardiola
Source Daily sports
Posted December 22, 2020
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