Pep Guardiola has hailed Newcastle United as an 'exceptional' team after his Man City side defeated the Magpies.
City remain unbeaten against Newcastle at the Etihad in the Premier League after Phil Foden and Bernardo Silva fired Guardiola's team to a 2-0 win on Saturday. Yet that scoreline did not necessarily tell the full story. Anthony Gordon, Sean Longstaff, Callum Wilson and Alexander Isak all had sights of goal for the visitors but, crucially, Newcastle failed to take their chances once more.
After the game, Guardiola was asked if he was concerned that his side were going to pay for failing to take one or two chances of their own when Newcastle had such big opportunities, themselves, before Bernardo's clincher midway through the second half. Guardiola gave an impassioned response that showed just how much homework the City boss had done on Newcastle's team of giants.
