Pep Guardiola declared Manchester City’s “new generation is coming” after a trio of academy graduates shone within the European champions’ second win of a pre-season tour in Japan in opposition to Bayern Munich on Wednesday.
James McAtee — who spent final season on mortgage at Championship facet Sheffield United, making 37 appearances and scoring 9 occasions to assist the membership safe promotion to the Premier League — opened the scoring for City within the twenty first minute in Tokyo.
Fellow tyro Oscar Bobb additionally confirmed flashes of his high quality after approaching as a second-half substitute within the 2-1 victory.
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Rico Lewis was the standout performer although, continuously inflicting Bayern issues going ahead and never shying away from his defensive duties in the midst of the park.
Speaking to reporters after the sport, Guardiola mentioned 18-year-old Lewis was “so smart, so intelligent”.
“He understands everything and is reliable in many, many things,” he mentioned of the participant who made 14 appearances within the Premier League final season.
“We are really, really pleased a player from the academy came up and is playing the way he is playing.”
Guardiola — himself a graduate of Barcelona’s famed La Masia academy — expressed his satisfaction on the high quality of gamers City have been now producing, declaring “the new generation is coming”.
Guardiola additionally praised the way in which wherein the academy was benefiting City’s funds, stating that “we sell a lot, with a buy-back (clause) normally”.
“So just for the academy in two transfer windows here 80 million pounds ($103.3 million), or 85 millions pounds, is just unbelievable,” he mentioned.
“I’m pretty sure one or some of them maybe in the future will be back here with us. So yeah, really pleased.”
Bayern supervisor Thomas Tuchel responded to extra questions on his membership’s pursuit of Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane, saying “I have nothing to hide”.
“I’m looking for a player because we have a lot of injured players, and we have a difficult situation,” Tuchel mentioned.
“However, having said that, we made a lot of opportunities today and in terms of how to build the match I think we did well.”
Aymeric Laporte wrapped up the win for City within the 86th minute after Mathys Tel levelled for Bayern 5 minutes earlier.
Next up for City is a conflict with Atletico Madrid in Seoul on Sunday, earlier than it returns to England to tackle Arsenal within the Community Shield.
Bayern has yet another recreation in Tokyo in opposition to J-League facet Kawasaki Frontale on Saturday after which journey to Singapore to tackle Liverpool.
