Yaya Toure slams Manchester City critics and backs Pep Guardiola’s style of play
The Ivorian midfielder believes Manchester City can achieve success at the Ethiad playing under Pep
YAYA TOURE has backed manager Pep Guardiola's style of play and insists Manchester City can win trophies despite their Champions League exit this week.
Manchester City crashed out of the Champions League competition on away goals to Ligue 1 team Monaco after they struck late to seal a thrilling victory, which ended 6-6 on aggregate.
The Ivorian midfielder jumped to Guardiola's defence and disagreed with suggestions they will not be able to win trophies under his free-flowing style after they were heavily criticised.
The 33-year-old spoke to the Times of India: "Of course we can win trophies playing this way".
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"Why not? We know we can score goals and we just have to keep going."
"You have to be ready for [criticism] and you have to be used to that. We know that some people are waiting for us to fail so what we have to do is to try and keep going, keep working hard."
"That is what you have to do to be a winner. We are playing well in the Premier League and we have to continue."
Asked if the same strategy will be deployed against Liverpool, Toure added: "Yes. This is the way we play and if we play like that we are going to have more and more fans."
"Even when we are winning we continue to attack. From the beginning of the season until now we have always showed we want to attack and score goals, that is the most important thing.";
"The new manager is all about attack. Sometimes when you play this way you can make a mistake but mistakes are part of the game."