Resurgent Foden continues to delight Guardiola

Pep Guardiola says he is thrilled with Phil Foden’s excellent form.

Foden opened the scoring in the 2-0 win over Huddersfield Town, before assisting Savinho to cap a man of the match performance in West Yorkshire.

On the back of stellar displays against Manchester United, Napoli and Arsenal, our attacking midfielder is gradually getting back to somewhere near his best after last year’s difficult campaign.

“Phil playing behind the striker is a real threat,” said Pep.

“We would have liked to score a second goal and make the substitutions before for Nico O’Reilly and Phil because they played a tough game against Arsenal three days ago.

“But they are young. They have good vitamins during the days, good food, good protein and yeah, now come back to Manchester to prepare [for Burnley].

“We have seen already Phil in a few games when the team play better.

“When every player makes his potential - but it’s not just today - the games against Arsenal, United and Napoli he was really good. 

“Close to the box ,I think he plays in the pockets perfectly. He play a little bit freer and close to the box he gives you something unique.

“I’m not a guy who likes to play three games with the same players, but I wanted a bit of consistency of patterns and routine for the players.

“I prefer a rotated team and today was perfect for many players - Oscar played good, Savinho played good, and all of them were aggressive, without the ball we were really  good winning duels so in terms of that I’m really satisfied.”