Unlikely duo pair upPep Guardiola seemed to do a U-turn on the subject of playing Sergio Agüero and Gabriel Jesus last week. Having declared that the absence of injured left back Benjamin Mendy has upset the tactical balance and prevented the duo being a regular pairing, the manager spoke openly last week of how they could, after all, pair up. The loss of Leroy Sané to a virus gave him the opportunity to start both with Jesus wide on the left of a three-man forward line and Agüero operating through the centre. The jury is still out on City’s best line-up but pairing such prodigious goalscoring talent together can never be a bad thing. Gundogen backIlkay Gundogan had his first league start since he…

Source: The Times November 30, 2017 00:33 UTC