Pep Guardiola has said that he wants to see his Manchester City side score more goals.
The Citizens are on the hunt to once again regain the Premier League title and potentially make history by becoming the first side to win it for a fourth time in a row.
Despite currently being in the race to win the league again alongside Liverpool and Arsenal, the City boss has highlighted one thing he wants to see from his side moving forward.
Guardiola wants more goals from City
Speaking in his latest press conference ahead of today’s match at Bournemouth, Guardiola had this to say on the matter.
He said: “I would like to score more. We have the creativity to shoot. We should score more. [It is also] important to say how many chances we concede. As much you create and less you concede you are all the time closer to winning the game. To do that you have to play better.
“We create more and concede less than the opponent, this is good analysis. Afterwards, you can still lose but you are closer to winning games. All the big data, the analysis after the game, I pay a little attention to, but not much.
“People say you have a lot of chances, that’s good but you have to score. It gives you an idea of how you are moving but I always say teams are human beings and they have feelings. The feelings are there.”
With 25 Premier League games played this season prior to today’s away clah against Bournemouth, the Citizens have scored 58 goals, five fewer than Liverpool.
At the same stage of the previous campaign, City had found the back of the net 64 times.
While it may not be a significant drop in the number of goals they have scored, it’s understandable why Guardiola thinks this is something his side can improve on.
However, with City having the highest total of goal-creating actions (101) in the league this season, this shows that they have the ability to score goals on a regular basis but may need to be a bit more clinical.
