Manchester City strolled to a simple win over Urawa Red Diamonds on Tuesday – although Pep Guardiola was surely annoyed by something Jack Grealish did.
The 28-year-old played all 90 minutes as the treble winners recorded a 3-0 win.
So, what did Jack Grealish do? Let’s take a look…
Guardiola surely frustrated by what Grealish did
Well, a number of Manchester City fans may also have been quite irritated when this happened.
Grealish had a golden opportunity to score in the 63rd minute, but continued to delay his shot again and again until the danger was eventually snuffed out.
Of course, you may be asking why Guardiola would be annoyed by this, seeing as Manchester City were 3-0 up at the time.
Incidentally, the 63rd minute miss came just days after the Spaniard expressed annoyance at Grealish for delaying his shots in the 2-1 win over Luton.
The Telegraph believe Guardiola finds the Manchester City No.10’s hesitance in front of goal to be highly frustrating, so he was presumably a bit irked to see it happen once again in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
After the win over Luton, the 52-year-old complained: “Jack in the first half had to shoot on his first touch and did not.”
Nevertheless – if there was any anger from Guardiola – it fizzled away before the game ended, as pictures show the England international appearing to receive a peck on the cheek from his boss, which you can see down below.
Manchester City need Grealish to be more ruthless at times
Manchester City fans can often sit back and enjoy the many things Grealish excels at when Erling Haaland is scoring the goals.
However – when the Norwegian is unavailable, like on Tuesday – the £100m man must be more ruthless with his finishing.
Grealish consistently gets himself into fantastic areas thanks to his dribbling skills and sense of space, but when it comes to testing the goalkeeper, shots either come too late, or not at all.
Hopefully, Guardiola can help the Birmingham-born maestro improve on this in training.
