Germany midfielder Ilkay Gundogan voiced his frustration with Wednesday's stunning 2-1 defeat to North Macedonia, insisting that such results can't be allowed to happen.
Germany midfielder Ilkay Gundogan voiced his frustration with Wednesday's stunning 2-1 defeat to North Macedonia, insisting that such results can't be allowed to happen.
Man City gunning for Man Utd s record
Ilkay Gundogan followed up with a goal six minutes later to net City s 101st in all competitions.
They have now netted 17 across eight matches in the European competition, 64 in the Premier League, nine in the FA Cup and 11 in the Carabao Cup.
100 - Manchester City have scored 100 goals in each of the last eight seasons - only Manchester United (nine seasons between 2004-05 and 2012-13) have had a longer run of consecutive 100+ goal seasons among English top-flight teams. Ascendancy. pic.twitter.com/ngaDgvDFPG OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) March 16, 2021
The only other English team to have gone on a longer run of scoring at least 100 goals in each season is Manchester United, who reached the century mark nine years in a row from 2004-05 until Sir Alex Ferguson retired at the end of the 2012-13 campaign.
Ilkay Gundogan has revealed that his career at the highest level was under serious threat at just 23 years of age, with a mystery back problem leading one surgeon to suggest that a “big screw” was required to fix the German.
Kevin De Bruyne is fit again after a month on the sidelines but it's by no means certain that Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola will put the brilliant Belgian straight back into his starting line-up