straight to your inboxPep Guardiola praised his Manchester City defenders for toughening up and eradicating the errors that scuppered their Premier League title chances last season.The Blues moved into second in the table - their highest position of the campaign - with a 4-0 dismantling of Crystal Palace that leaves them two points behind neighbours United with a game in hand.Roy Hodgson declared afterwards that the team have all the qualities needed to win the Premier League, and while Guardiola won't countenance such talk himself he has been delighted with the tightening up that has enabled their improvement.
Ruben Dias and John Stones recorded their ninth clean sheet in ten games together as City remain the meanest defence in the.
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