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Your support makes all the difference.<\/strong>Read more<\/p>\n Pep Guardiola<\/a> will invite Sir Alex Ferguson<\/a> and Arsene Wenger<\/a> to dinner after breaking another Premier League<\/a> record.<\/p>\n Manchester City\u2019s 1-0 win at Brentford was Guardiola\u2019s 250th as a manager in the Premier League.<\/p>\n It has taken Guardiola just 349 matches to reach the milestone, while the next best \u2013\u00a0Ferguson at Manchester United and Wenger\u2019s Arsenal \u2013 both took more than 400.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s an honour to be alongside Sir Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger, I will invite them to a good dinner,\u201d smiled the Spaniard.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a pleasure to be part of that in Premier League history. Really pleased. Now let\u2019s go for 250 more!\u201d<\/p>\n Erling Haaland ticked the Gtech Stadium off his to-do list as one of only two Premier League venues he had not previously scored at.<\/p>\n Just eight minutes had elapsed when the Norwegian striker raced on to a ball over the top from Josko Gvardiol.<\/p>\n Haaland bulldozed his way between Bees defenders Sepp van den Berg and Nathan Collins before lashing his shot past Caoimhin Kelleher.<\/p>\n It was Haaland\u2019s 18th goal in 11 matches for club and country this season and leaves Anfield as the only ground he has yet to score at in the Premier League.<\/p>\n But City were unable to add to their tally and were almost pegged back when Igor Thiago raced through on goal, only for goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma to come to their rescue.<\/p>\n \u201cAway when you are 1-0 up always you suffer,\u201d added Guardiola. \u201cIn first half we were at our best and could have scored more goals to make it a little easier.<\/p>\n \u201cWe knew at half-time they would push more. Throw-ins, corners, free-kicks, always you suffer. But the game was well played.\u201d<\/p>\n Sadly, City\u2019s afternoon in the west London sunshine was soured when midfielder Rodri suffered more injury misery.<\/p>\n In the 20th minute the disconsolate Spaniard, still making his way back from almost a year out due to an ACL injury, sat down in the centre circle holding his hamstring and eventually limped off to be replaced by Nico Gonzalez.<\/p>\n \u201cIt looks like a hamstring but we don\u2019t know the damage yet,\u201d said Guardiola.<\/p>\n For Brentford it was a first home defeat of the season as their chaotic brand of long throws and set-pieces came up short.<\/p>\n \u201cWe made it very uncomfortable in the second half,\u201d said boss Keith Andrews.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a game of very few chances and when you restrict them to very few chances you\u2019re doing well. I\u2019m not sure many other strikers in the world score that goal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-477501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115325711395480147","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}