Guardiola fielded a line-up featuring several of the youngest players in his squad, handing debuts to Tijjani Reijnders and Rayan Cherki. He was rewarded with a confident 2-0 win over Wydad AC.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"We had good moments, many new players and the first game in this group stage is always important. We started really well then afterwards had some problems, especially when losing simple balls. When you lose simple balls, the transition is a little bit there. But I saw many good things,\" Guardiola was quoted by the Manchester City website.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cThis is the first game, we\u2019ll prepare the next one with the new players. The first three points is important. We have the second one to try to arrive in the last game to have qualified, then the last game to define if we\u2019re first. The first step is done; this is important.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"We\u2019ll recover, train well in the next few days and then have fresh legs for the next game. We\u2019ll try to step by step improve things. It\u2019s normal in this stage with new players and a lot of people coming from big injuries; step by step we\u2019re going to take the right tempo,\" he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The game featured a man of the match display from Foden, who weighed in with an assist as well as his early strike. At 25, Foden was one of the \u201cveterans\u201d on the pitch, now in his ninth season under Guardiola. Other long serving players in the side included Ederson and Nathan Ake.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"We\u2019ll recover, train well in the next few days and then have fresh legs for the next game. We\u2019ll try to step by step improve things. It\u2019s normal in this stage with new players and a lot of people coming from big injuries; step by step we\u2019re going to take the right tempo,\" he added.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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