NEWCASTLE: Pep Guardiola will put squad rotation ahead of rewriting the European football history books when runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City visit Newcastle on Wednesday. It may happen but we’ve a good enough squad,” Guardiola said. “Last game, (Oleksandr) Zinchenko was man of the match and he was not in the squad against Bournemouth. There is the real prospect that by the time City visit Liverpool in mid-January, they will have broken the record and have 20 straight league victories - not that Guardiola is motivated by the prospect. But I’m not going to sleep thinking about if I am going to break a record from my time at Bayern Munich.

Source: New Strait Times December 25, 2017 22:30 UTC