Manchester City has just started a new adventure under Catalan manager Pep Guardiola this past Saturday, they barely managed to defeat Sunderland 2-1. This might look as a negative result because their opponent wasn't one of the powerful teams in England, many fans are concerned because they fear getting defeated by a stronger side in the games to come. However, there were many positive things to take out of this first test with Pep and the team needed the confidence a victory brings in order to travel to Romania for the Champions League.
Talking to reporters, goalie Willy Caballero asked the fans to have a little patience and a little faith: "Sometimes we are taking risks when we pass the ball in our back and my first pass was really, really complicated because they could have scored. But after that, we played really better from the back and we can start playing as the boss wants, but we need minutes -- we need minutes together. Two or three players have arrived in the last week -- John [Stones] played like he has been here for the last three or four years. It's important to play together. We need games and minutes together to have experience together and to have rhythm and to play more better if we can."
About the rumors linking Claudio Bravo to Manchester City, Caballero confirmed that it's difficult to cope with all the speculation: "For sure, it's very tough in this situation for me, for Joe, for the fans, for everything. But I just tried to think and enjoy this opportunity and the most important thing is that we won as well. It doesn't matter who played and when Joe has the opportunity, I think he will enjoy it as well as me. This kind of decision is for the boss and for the club, the most important thing for me is to just enjoy this game that I had and that I keep improving and keep trying to play as the boss wants to play."
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