Guardioula's Revenge On His Former Club.

Tuesday night gave all the football lovers out there something to cheer about.
And guess what it was all about??
The Mancity match against Barcelona.
The game started on a rather tough match as both sides troubled each other and about half an hour into the match Lionel messi snatched a goal for the visiting side Barcelona.
The home team however didn't give up without clearly having a fight. Just before the Break the new signing Gundogan scored making the match level at the break.
The second half started with mancity firing from all cylinders with Gundogan having a brace for himself.
With less than 20mins to go Kevin de Bryne scored practically sealing victory for the Manchester Side.
The match ended and the visitors clearly were not happy with the result.

FACT
1 Guardiola has never lost home and away to his former club
2, It shows what Barcelona legend Lionel Messi is doing against English teams.
Scoring a number of 16 goals in 10 games.

Ihenacho, Iwobi shortlisted for golden boy award.

The Golden Boy award is for a young player in Europe considered to be the best among his peers in a calendar year.
All nominees must be under the age of 21 and play in a European nation's top tier.
The shortlist for the 2016 edition has been released and in it, two Nigerian internationals have been included.
Iheanacho who recently became the first Nigerian to score in the Manchester derby made the list.

In the year under review, the 19-year-old was promoted to Manchester City first team and has never looked back since there.
He scored 10 goals in the 2015/2016 season and has three so far this term.
Iwobi also got into the Arsenal first team last season, scoring two goals. This season, he has become a regular for the Gunners as he continues to impress.
Iwobi also became a full international in the year under review after making his Super Eagles debut in October 2015.

Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford is also nominated alongside Dele Alli of Tottenham, Manchester City’s Leroy Sane , Demerai Gray of Leicester City .
Manchester United forward, Antony Martial
won the last edition while other previous winners include, Raheem Sterling (2014),
Paul Pogba (2013), Isco (2012) Lionel Messi
(2005), Cesc Fabregas (2006) and Mario Balotelli (2010).
Full Shortlist
Belgian Jupiler Pro league : Leon Bailey (Gent), Youri Tielemans (Anderlecht).
German Bundesliga: Julian Brandt (Bayer Leverkusen), Andreas Christensen (Borussia Monchengladbach), Kingsley Coman (Bayern Munich), Mahmoud Dahoud (Borussia Monchengladbach), Ousmane Dembele (Borussia Dortmund), Breel Embolo (Schalke), Alen Halilovic (Hamburg), Renato Sanches (Bayern Munich), Jonathan Tah (Bayer Leverkusen).
Croatian Prva Liga: Ante Coric (Dinamo Zagreb).
Dutch Eredivise : Riechedley Bazoer (Ajax), Nathan (Vitesse), Jairo Riedewald (Ajax)
English Premier League : Leroy Sane (Manchester City), Dele Alli (Tottenham), Demarai Gray (Leicester), Marko Grujic (Liverpool), Kelechi Iheanacho (Manchester City), Alex Iwobi (Arsenal), Ruben Loftus Cheek (Chelsea), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United).
France Ligue 1 : Gabriel Boschilia (Monaco), Emmanuel Mammana (Lyon), Almamy Touré (Monaco).
Italy Serie A : Amadou Diawara (Napoli), Gianluigi Donnarumma (AC Milan), Gabriel Barbosa (Inter Milan), Olivier Ntcham (Genoa).
Portuguese Primeira Liga : Gonçalo Guedes (Benfica), Ruben Neves (Porto), Danilo Barbosa (Benfica)
Russian Premier League : Aleksandr Golovin (CSKA Moscow).
Scottish Premier League : Moussa Dembele (Celtic).
Spain La Liga: Marco Asensio (Real Madrid), Carlos Fernandez (Sevilla), Lucas Hernández (Atletico Madrid), Tonny Sanabria (Real Betis).
Ukraine : Viktor Kovalenko (Shakhtar Donetsk)

KEEP THE FLAG FLYING!!

Balotellis Return to EPL imminent

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BALOTELLI to return to EPL

The Italian striker roundly flopped at Liverpool and is now at Nice, but his agent believes he could one day return to England's top-flight as he is a "world-class talent"

Mario Balotelli will “absolutely” return to the Premier League, according to his agent Mino Raiola.
The Italian striker left Liverpool for Ligue 1 side Nice in the summer, with Jamie Carragher claiming that the French club had “overpaid” after signing him on a free transfer.
Balotelli scored just one Premier League goal in his ill-fated Reds spell, and was also loaned to Milan during his spell at Anfield such was his fall down the pecking order.
Raiola, though, remains confident that his client will eventually make his way back to England.
“Italy is unlivable for him because of the attention he gets,” he told the Daily Mail. “If he proves he can become stable at Nice and score goals then imagine how attractive he would be to a Premier League manager next summer as a free agent.
“France needs him, like they needed Zlatan (Ibrahimovic). He is good for the league but he will absolutely return to the Premier League.
“What would a real manager rather do? Gamble £100m on a striker or take Balotelli? Because no one can tell me he is not a world-class talent.”
Balotelli initially moved to England with Manchester City and won the Premier League under Roberto Mancini, prior to moving to Milan in 2013 for a reported €20 million fee.
Raiola, though, says that he should never have allowed the 26-year-old to leave the club.
“I should not have given him his way when he asked to leave City. It is the one big mistake I made,” Raiola added.
“Mario was unhappy and I should have said, ‘You’re feeling ****? You don’t like your job? Tough, grow up, get on with it.’ I needed to be cruel to be kind, but I was too nice.
“Mario’s flaw was that he was looking for love. He needed to be egocentric. He needed to eat, sleep,  and  football, no one else.
“Football needs to be his priority, not a fiancee, not even a wife. To be a top athlete, you make the sacrifice and after 11 or 12 years you redress the balance then lead the life you want.

“Pavel Nedved, who was one of my first players, had that focus to be a success and he was a model family man. Mario didn’t have that focus, then he got a reputation and if you have a reputation you don’t have credibility. That makes it more difficult.”