Riyad Mahrez: On bench against Manchester City

“Every time we dropped points this season, the next game we won, which is so, so important. It’s poor to not bring a young player, really poor”.

The Foxes went into the half-time break level at the Etihad, but were blown away by a four-goal blitz from Sergio Aguero in the second half, with Puel admitting it had been a hard evening for his side.

Raheem Sterling opened the scoring in the third minute, latching onto a brilliant Kevin De Bruyne delivery. The Belgian picked up the ball on the right-hand side, slipping the ball through to Aguero, whose fierce shot was too strong for Schmeichel to keep out at the near post.

However, Pep Guardiola wants to add more defensive options to his squad to make Manchester City even stronger for the 2017/18 campaign, though it won’t be easy for him to land the England worldwide, with Manchester United now in for him, too.

The image showed how some fans are willing to forgive Mahrez for going AWOL: they just want to see the club’s best player on the pitch.

And the hat-trick of assists (14 overall), was completed after 53 minutes as he once again played in Aguero to put City at ease.

“I have been a part of the Leicester City team that has achieved much success including promotion to the Premier League and being champions of the League“.

A neat exchange between Sterling and De Bruyne on the right flank allowed the latter to tease a low cross to gift Aguero a tap-in.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola at his press conference.

The Argentina worldwide has now scored 13 goals in 10 matches since the turn of the year, when City’s other main goal-getter Gabriel Jesus was ruled out with injury.

“I would like to rest Sergio Aguero but he’s the only striker we have”. Manchester City will be at home for this game and that should mean even better things for the club.

West Ham United were the last Premier League team to leave the Etihad having conceded fewer than three goals, a marginal 2-1 loss at the start of December.

Seriously though, the Belgian has been key in Manchester City’s title run in recent months and his performance against Leicester City just typified how effective he has been in midfield.