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​Man City boss Guardiola laments missed chances against Fulham

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is not satisfied despite City scoring three goals against Fulham in the Premier League this weekend.

City rompted to an easy win over the newly promoted side, but Guardiola believes there is room to improve. He wants his side to show ruthlessness in front of goal in the future.

He said to Goal: "Maybe it was the reaction of when the ball got passed to Bernardo and I said it is impossible that he is going to miss it because of his quality but he missed it and I said 'wow'. My reaction and extra expression is when they miss the simple things. That, I cannot handle in myself.

"So one guy has the ball and they miss the ball and an extra simple pass, an extra touch, an extra touch and after miss the pass, that is why I... still now I am angry. I am upset with my players and they know that. We spoke about that many times.

"About missing the goals or about the assists or a shootout... dribbling, go one against one, two against... and lose the dribbling, it doesn't matter, but control the ball and pass the ball simple, if they miss that, and today there was a lot of that, that's why I am going to show them we can improve.

"They [the players] are maybe angrier than me so no doubt. We speak many times, pass the ball two or three metres, don't miss that ball and today it happened a few times especially in the first half and the teams that want to play in the top level they punish you a lot.

"But normally that happens after international breaks this kind of thing happens, it can happen, with the travel, one training session, play. You are still not [doing] the normal situations. Now we start. Every three days until the Liverpool game we will be here for one month with a game every three days, so everyone is going to settle."

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