Pep Guardiola chose his favorite Manchester City player and it's not Haaland or De Bruyne

Manchester City defeated Thomas Tuchel's Bayern Munich by a landslide 3-0 at the Etihad Stadium in England in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals and is convincingly approaching the semifinals of the top tournament at club level in Europe, with a key win to go to defend the result in Germany, where they should not be trusted anyway.

Rodri managed to open the scoring with a great goal from outside the left-footed area, his less agile leg, then Erling Haaland appeared to assist Bernardo Silva to make it 0-2 in favor and finally the Norwegian striker put final numbers on the scoreboard converting after John Stones headed the ball down for him to convert facing Yann Sommer's goal to give Pep Guardiola's men the final advantage.

Erling Haaland managed to score against 22 of the 24 teams he has faced since he arrived at Manchester City, the only ones he couldn't do so for now were Chelsea and Brentford, Bayern Munich was his new victim, showing all his scoring power and without a doubt imposing a lot of respect for the world.

But the truth is that Pep Guardiola this time did not praise Erling Haaland, but another footballer who ended up being essential for the citizen cast to beat the German team in a bulky way, giving him a true football lesson in the highest level competition. clubs in Europe.

Guardiola praised another player, and not Haaland

Pep Guardiola praised Bernardo Silva, a footballer who was totally fundamental in the victory of the citizen team to beat Bayern Munich by a landslide. The coach explained that the Portuguese is a soccer player who understands the game, has the ability to read everything, being very important in this type of match, being able to play as a midfielder, false nine, scores many goals, the position that the understands, said the manager.