straight to your inbox Pep Guardiola backed Rodri for a big future with the club after the midfielder earned praise during Manchester City's 4-0 win at Watford.
It has been a promising debut season from the 24-year-old faced with the daunting task of filling Fernandinho's role in what has been a challenging campaign where the team collectively have simply not been able to perform as consistently as is required to win the Premier League.
Rodri will rarely attract headlines because of his position - as his predecessor didn't - but he was effective enough in the win over Watford to be given the man-of-the-match award by the host broadcaster.
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