Guardiola You don’t need to lose the first silverware of the season to know that he needs to add strength to his game. Super League champion.
But if anything makes him want to redouble his efforts to sign Harry Kane, This will be the second consecutive loss in the “final”-another game in which Manchester City failed to find a goal.
At the same time, Guardiola played frustratingly on the touchline, because Manchester City failed to open Leicester City often, wasting the few opportunities they created.
Compared with the almost all-around Leicester City, he may have started with a temporary team, but after investing 100 million pounds in Jack Grelisch, Bernardo Silva and Rodri, his determination to win It is obvious.
Guardiola doesn’t like losing, no matter what the occasion.
Although this season’s opener cannot be compared with the Champions League final- City also lost to Ceslia 1-0 -Guardiola still thinks this is a final. Enough finals to count Manchester City’s self-proclaimed four consecutive championships in 2019.
He has not forgotten to score goals to win games and trophies, which is why a world-class center is his top priority before this season.
The third championship in four years may have been won without Sergio Aguero last season, but Guardiola hopes to be a pioneer in taking Manchester City to the next level.
Kane is the one; as close to the cast iron goal guarantee as in world football.
For all Guardiola’s love of complex midfielders-Britain’s record signing Greeley fits this model perfectly-he needs a finisher to function at the highest level.
Take a look at the Manchester City Community Shield team roster and you will find that Guardiola’s team has huge loopholes.
Although his starting lineup includes young Sam Edozzi and Cole Palmer, Gabriel Jesus is just an absentee of the orthodox forward.
Aguero’s departure from Barcelona has left Manchester City extremely short of a center-and Jesus has proved in the past three and a half years that he is not enough to replace the club’s historical scorer.
Anything but the highest quality striker will be eliminated-even if Aguero left his peak at the end of last season.
This is exactly what Kane is, and this is why Guardiola listed him as the number one target-even ahead of Erlin Harland.
The question now is whether the Spurs can be persuaded to sell, and whether Kane will succeed in forcing an exit.
Unless they come up with £150 million, Manchester City seems unlikely to be happy-this is a price they don’t want to increase. But if Guardiola wants the best, then he will have to pay for it.
With bullets provided by Kevin De Bruyne, Greerich, Raheem Sterling and Phil Foden, Kane can score up to 40 goals per season. He may be the one who finally won the Champions League trophy that both Guardiola and the club’s Abu Dhabi owner desire.
Since both Chelsea and Manchester United have invested heavily this summer, he may only need to stop the chasers.
If any team can cope without a number 9, it is Manchester City. But to stay ahead, you need to keep going, not give your competitors an opportunity to take advantage.
This time it was Ferran Torres in the role of center-but he looked like a winger playing a misplaced position and didn’t make a goal before being replaced after the 74th minute.
If Kane does not arrive, it may be that Jesus took over the mantle, or it may be one of the many false No9s from De Bruyne to Sterling to Gregory.
But if Pep Guardiola and Manchester City want to stand out in the most competitive and open championship battle of recent times, they need something real.
At the same time, Leicester proved that they can continue to threaten the elite, and Ishinacho’s strike won them a well-deserved victory.
They can point out some missed first-half opportunities that would have allowed them to open a comfortable lead during the break.
Jamie Vardy spent a frustrating afternoon after being repeatedly rejected by Zack Steffen.
Manchester City’s American goalkeeper shot a long shot near the goal post very early, and then gratefully saw Vardy’s shot directly at him.
Then, when he deflected Vardy’s other close-range shot to the goal post, he made an amazing instinctive save-although the Leicester forward would be disappointed by not finding the net.
In the absence of many first-team players, Manchester City sometimes looks ragged-especially in the last third, Edozzi wasted an opportunity while Mahrez saw others begging.
The most obvious chance came when the former Leicester winger broke out near the hour mark, but only Kaspa Schmeichel defeated.
Both sides made changes to find the winner, and when Nathan Ake tipped substitute Iheanacho in the penalty area at the dying moment, Leicester made a breakthrough.
The striker stepped forward and took a shot, which triggered emotions among Leicester fans and sent Guardiola back empty-handed.
