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09/28/2025

Manchester City survived a minor scare to blitz Burnley on Saturday, with two braces - coming from Erling Haaland and two Maxime Esteve own goals - proving decisive

It marked another step on the apparent turnaround for Pep Guardiola's side, with Haaland and Co picking up two wins and a draw since the last international break.

Here, Daily Mail Sport takes a look at the main talking points from the win over Burnley…

Intensity from Pep squared
For around 25 minutes of the afternoon, either side of Manchester City eventually wrestling full control of victory, Pep Lijnders man marked his boss.

It's often difficult to decipher the exact nature of conversations between the brains trust given that they always appear a little frantic and certainly packed with emotion.

But the way the pair of them spoke and gesticulated while Burnley had this all square, and even when City later settled proceedings, suggested that there could be more days like this to come.

More days when the latest version of Pep Guardiola's City is still finding its way, still working itself out. This was by no means vintage, stifled for large spells by Scott Parker's low block and ultimately indebted to the unfortunate Maxime Esteve, who became only the sixth man in Premier League history to net a brace of own goals in a single game.

The statistics point towards a hugely resounding win but the feel of it, until Matheus Nunes volleyed City back into a lead after Jaidon Anthony's equaliser, offered something quite different.

And that is Guardiola – lampooned last week for having the temerity to devise a defensive set-up at Arsenal – just figuring things out tactically. Among other things, he wants better movement from Nico O'Reilly and Tijjani Reijnders but says he can see improvement each week.

It is likely why he has devoted so much effort to improving the 'vibes' around the camp – which has seen them start doing laps of honours after matches. That as a fundamental and now for the tweaked style, which could take a few months to perfect.

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