Pep Guardiola said that the Manchester City players responded to the atmosphere inside the Etihad as they trounced Leeds 7-0 to extend their lead at the top of the Premier League.
Phil Foden put the Blues on their way inside eight minutes and it was one-way traffic for the whole match in an incredibly dominant win as City racked up their biggest win in two years and inflicted the joint-worst result in the entire history of Leeds United.
Guardiola was wary of Marcelo Bielsa's side as soon as the Wolves game had finished and used his programme notes on Tuesday as a call to arms for the home fans to help his side to combat the threat that Leeds posed. Having taken just one point from two meetings with the Premier League newcomers last season, the manager was delighted with the extra help that his players got.
"We did a really good game. We dropped five points last season against Leeds. We cannot forget it. We are the same guys that we are today, except Jack [Grealish]," he said.
"It was a good game. The vibe of the stadium was phenomenal. It was sold out today and when that happens, the players feel it. Thank you so much to all of them and producing this performance today was a pleasure."
Bielsa described the game as the worst of his four-year tenure as manager, and did not even think the Blues had played that well.
"It’s not that City played very well. It’s a lot more noticeable how badly we played than how well City played," he said.
"City plays like this all the time, or similar to it, but we have never played so badly in these four years. And I insist that the message is that what I proposed and what the game needed, was not good enough.
"You can deflect the attention when some things work and some things don’t but when nothing works, it is the decisions of the one in charge that defines what happen."
