Manchester City: 5 Lessons Pep Guardiola should learn from Celtic draw

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GLASGOW, SCOTLAND – SEPTEMBER 28: Raheem Sterling of Manchester City celebrates with team-mates after scoring his team’s second goal during the UEFA Champions League group C match between Celtic FC and Manchester City FC at Celtic Park on September 28, 2016 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Mark Runnacles/Getty Images) /

4. Raheem Sterling is unplayable

Who is this new winger Manchester City have got? Raheem Sterling looks like a new player under Pep Guardiola. Sterling looked like he was regressing at City, but now he’s showing everybody just why he was so highly touted a few years back.

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The fee of £49 million that City paid for Sterling was mocked at the time. It’s starting to look like shrewd business now. Not for Liverpool – for City. Sterling is unplayable right now. It seems that opposition teams can make all the plans that they want and Sterling just rips them up and leaves them defenseless.

Against Celtic, Sterling scored City’s second goal. His 5th of the season. Either side of his goal, he was a constant threat on an evening that really tests your character as a 21-year-old. Sterling even scored an unfortunate own goal.

Still, nothing deterred the winger. Not an own goal, not the crowd, not the opposition, not the rain, not the scoreline. Nothing. He’s just unplayable right now. No matter the conditions, the atmosphere, the circumstances. He’s running riot.

To think at this point that Sterling is one of the first names on the team sheet is incredible, really. From where he came from in pre-season. His form to date has showed how much improvement he has made. The game against Celtic, with everything taken into consideration, confirmed it.

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