Michail Antonio has described Manchester City's opening day victory over West Ham United as a footballing 'masterclass'.
Big summer signing Erling Haaland introduced himself in fine fashion, finding the net twice at the London Stadium to ensure Pep Guardiola's side got their 2022/23 campaign off to the perfect start with a 2-0 victory over a West Ham team featuring Antonio.
And the Jamaica international, who featured for just under an hour, has praised the City set-up, insisting the fluidity in the team was sometimes simply too much to handle.
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"Their system is liquid," began Antonio, speaking on the BBC's 'Footballers Football Podcast'. "It can't be contained. They're rotating everywhere. Cancelo is popping up in midfield, Grealish will be out wide, Bernardo will be inside him. It was a masterclass.''
Many comparisons have already been made between both Haaland and Liverpool new boy Darwin Nunez, with both getting off to a perfect start by finding the net on their respective Premier League debuts.
Antonio also insisted he was perhaps wrong to suggest that the Norwegian forward's style wouldn't best suit City's forward thinking.
He added: "You can definitely see the quality that he (Haaland) has. I do believe that he's going to be up there for the Golden Boot.
"I'm going to have to eat my words from last season, when I was saying I wasn't sure he would fit in with Pep Guardiola's system, because he's used to using number tens."
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