• Manager wants team to be more clinical in front of goal• ‘We create a lot, don’t concede, but can improve’Pep Guardiola has claimed
Manchester City are “still not ready” to win the
Champions League because they are not clinical enough in front of goal.
The champions scored twice in 90 first-half seconds to seal victory at Crystal Palace, with Gabriel Jesus recording his 50th goal for the club. The 22-year-old has scored in all three league matches he has started this season, yet Guardiola singled out the striker – who was preferred to Sergio Agüero after impressing City’s manager in two matches for
Brazil during the international break – for failing to convert a series of chances in the second half.