Pep Guardiola, manager of Manchester City, is confident that the reigning Premier League champions made an “incredible investment” in Nico Gonzalez, which he compared after the 4-0 victory against Newcastle United with a “mini-rodri” .
City put the disappointment of the defeat of the Champions League on Tuesday evening against Real Madrid and achieved a big home win against a team in Newcastle in the dispute over a top 4-premier League conclusion.
Omar Marmoush stole the headlines and scored his first city destinations in a style to record a hat trick before James Mcatee added the shine to an excellent team performance.
Abdukodir Khusanov was successful in tame the productive Newcastle striker Alexander Isak, but it was the performance of Gonzalez that made his manager aware. Guardiola was adequately impressed by what he saw from the 23-year-old, who was connected by Porto for £ 50 million, but the chief of City was completely surprised by the level of the former graduate of the Barcelona Academy.
“Nico’s presence helps us a lot in the 50/50s,” said Guardiola. “He wins seven and we can run. If he loses seven, they would run. The club made an incredible investment for the future. He was a player in the Barcelona Academy, which is the best in the world to do things like body to teach shape.
“[Former Porto boss Sergio] Conceicao helped him a lot to improve aggressively and clever and play different types of games.
“He is 23, like a mini-rodri. It’s a big compliment, but he has a feeling with this present. He wins the duels. It is far away in other things because Rodri is the best. “
Gonzalez had given his city debut a fourth round with Leyton Orient in a combative FA Cup a week ago, but could not end the game after picking up a knock within 25 minutes.
Here he completed 100 out of 103 passes (97%), won all four floor duels he contained four times in Newcastle in Newcastle had brought city back from defense to attack in the blink of an eye.