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Manchester Evening News
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Simon Bajkowski

What Man City coaches have been telling Kevin De Bruyne

Pep Guardiola was happy to see Kevin De Bruyne on the scoresheet as Manchester City breezed past Arsenal at the Emirates.

The Blues have enjoyed playing at the Emirates in recent years, with a sumptuous performance two years ago on the back of their league cup win followed up by a convincing start to their title defence in August 2018.

City have been less convincing in their attempt to make it three leagues in a row and are 14 points off top spot with nearly half the campaign gone, but they were far too good for Freddie Ljungberg's side as an inspired De Bruyne scored twice and assisted the other to earn a 3-0 win .

Guardiola is used to the spectacular vision that the Belgian possesses, having seen it close up from the moment he walked through the Etihad doors over three years ago.

However, the message for De Bruyne has been to get more goals and the 28-year-old delivered again, making it six goals and 10 assists from 16 league games this season with his contributions at Arsenal.

"He's an extraordinary player. He sees passes and actions that normal human beings cannot see," said Guardiola. He has that special vision.

"Always we tell him 'you have to score more goals, you have to score more goals'. We speak with him about that and today he scored two incredible goals and made an assist for Raheem [Sterling]."

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