Pep Guardiola explains why Raheem Sterling used to be on Manchester Metropolis penalty responsibility

Pep Guardiola has explained why Raheem Sterling used to be on penalty kick responsibility rather than Kevin De Bruyne during Manchester Metropolis’s 1-0 exhaust over Brighton.

Popular penalty taker De Bruyne won a say kick for Metropolis in 2d half of stoppage time after being fouled by Brighton goalkeeper Robert Sanchez, however it used to be change Sterling who stepped up to construct up it. On the opposite hand, the England world blazed over from 12 yards.

“Kevin is the taker however he made a honest looking out effort – no longer upright the motion to press the keeper and make the penalty however for the leisure of the actions ahead of,” Guardiola stated (by activity of the Manchester Evening News).

“He used to be struggling within the supreme 15 minutes attributable to he used to be exhausted. I love the fellows who accumulate the responsibility for the penalty. It used to be Raz and subsequent time it goes to be greater.”

The penalty trot over did no longer indicate costly, with Metropolis securing a 1-0 victory attributable to of a fabulously taken first half of Phil Foden purpose.

The Metropolis academy product prick within Adam Webster along with his first contact ahead of sending a low effort into the underside corner. The target used to be Foden’s eighth of the season in all competitions, which capacity that he currently tops Metropolis’s scoring charts.

“He’s 20 years extinct, upright gawk at the stats,” Guardiola knowledgeable BBC Sport. “The quantity of games he has performed, the dreams and the assists he has created and review with the biggest stars in English soccer – the quantity of games at his age. We’re overjoyed.

“He’s a man who can play on all facets as a winger, as a deceptive 9, he can play within the center. He’s so, so artful in front of purpose.

“That is why he deserves to play. Unfortunately as managers we deem the performance today time, no longer what came about within the previous. And today time he performed correct, so presumably in some unspecified time in the future he goes to leisure however correct now he deserves to play.”