Pep Guardiola notices change in Kevin De Bruyne as Man City brush Bournemouth aside

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These are your Manchester City evening headlines on Saturday, August 13. Pep Guardiola believes Kevin De Bruyne is enjoying adding goals to his game, helped by Erling Haaland's addition to the Manchester City squad.

City cruised into a 3-0 half-time lead over newly-promoted Bournemouth thanks to goals from Ilkay Gundogan, Kevin De Bruyne and Phil Foden, with Erling Haaland notching his first assist for the Blues in the opener.

They took their foot off the gas in the 30 degree heat after half-time, with an own goal making it four from Joao Cancelo's cross, and that was enough to send City top of the Premier League after just two games. READ MORE: Man City player ratings as Kevin De Bruyne runs Bournemouth ragged And Guardiola said after the game that De Bruyne surprised him with his ability to create space to score his goal on the counter, and discussed how Haaland can improve his game. Read more about De Bruyne's superb performance here. It is often said in football that the matches defy scriptwriters, the action seemingly so unbelievable that nobody could have predicted what would happen.

Manchester City versus Bournemouth was not one of those matches. Pep Guardiola's Premier League title-winning machine up against a newly-promoted side that everybody expects to go down always looked like one of the bigger mismatches of the competition, and from the first whistle never threatened to look like anything else.