Guardiola says Man City owner wants him to stay for ‘long’ time

Newcastle legend Alan Shearer sarcastically cheered a save from Manchester City goalkeeper Claudio Bravo during Manchester City’s 5-1 FA Cup win over Huddersfield.

After his double against Monaco in the Champions League last week, the Argentina worldwide scored a first-half penalty and steered in a close-range finish in the second half as City bounced back from falling behind in the seventh minute at Etihad Stadium.

Credit to Huddersfield for a nice team move, and Bunn got the shot on target, but you’d be expecting most goalkeepers at that level to make a save.

However, they face a much tougher task traveling to the City’s home ground with not many people expecting their fearless resistance to last much longer.

Bravo has been demoted to the role of cup keeper for City and he is likely to stay demoted after another clanger in the first half.

Hart is being linked with a number of Premier League clubs, including Liverpool and Everton, and it is believed City will be willing to sell him for £20m.

Despite the early setback, City began to dominate and were rewarded for their pressure when Sane finished from close range after 30 minutes.

Wagner will have to do without Kasey Palmer, Jonathan Hogg and Sean Scannell, who are all injured, while on-loan Manchester City man Aaron Mooy is ineligible to play against his parent club.

As they picked up the pace, they had two penalty appeals for handball rejected, the first being the stronger claim after Jon Stankovic appeared to divert a Kevin De Bruyne cutback. Every player in the squad has played at least ten games this season.

Guardiola’s spirit of adventure means the FA Cup will remain on City’s radar this season, especially as Chelsea’s 11-point lead at the top of the Premier League suggests that trophy will be out of City’s reach for the second consecutive season.

“I saw in the past and I am pretty sure there are four of five guys who are coming to the next summer camp in the [United] States but it depends on them”, he said.

First, Raheem Sterling dazzled two Huddersfield defenders with his fleet footwork on the right-wing before squaring to Sane for a two yard tap-in.

1 but found themselves one goal down Harry Burn scored withing seven minutes as the Championship side’s high pressing worked a trick.

However, when it comes to whether Huddersfield’s bid to book a quarter-final tie with Middlesbrough will be unduly affected by his absence from the technical area, the Huddersfield chief insists that will not be the case.