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#3 Under-fire Leroy Sane stars in first league start
Amongst the group of players with sky-high confidence at Manchester City, one man who hasn’t exactly been riding the same boat as his colleagues is young Leroy Sane. The German, who had a scintillating season last time round, has fallen off the radar with a surprise omission from the World Cup squad as well from the starting XI in City’s opening 4 games of the season.
With Champions League football commencing this week, Guardiola felt it was necessary to rotate his squad and experiment his bench strength. As a result, Sane got his chance and the German was in excellent touch from the first minute.
Post his opening goal, he dominated the left side, making dangerous inroads from the left byline to receive a pass. Fulham’s right back Cyrus Christie was the victim of Sane’s pace and intelligence on the ball, often finding himself out of position against the German World Cup reject, who has surely staked a claim for a regular place in Guardiola’s first XI in the Premier League as well as in Europe.
