City’s Sterling has an appetite for goals

– Raheem Sterling is looking to add to his best-ever goals tally as Manchester City attempt to improve on their own record-breaking Premier League start.

Pep Guardiola’s dazzling side host Southampton tonight having already accumulated an unprecedented 37 points from their opening 13 games.

Sterling (left) was the key man in Sunday’s 2-1 comeback win at Huddersfield Town, winning a penalty that was converted by Sergio Aguero and then netting a late winner.

That took his tally to 12 in all competitions, a figure the England winger has never previously managed over a campaign.

Sterling said calmness under pressure had been a key factor in

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his improvement, but refused to reveal how many goals he had targeted before the season kicked off.

“I just get in the box and try to be as calm as possible,” he said.

“I set myself targets every season. Sometimes you don’t match them, but that’s the thing about football – you always have another year to try again.”

City’s eight-point lead over second-placed Manchester United has established them as overwhelming favourites to win the title, but skipper Vincent Kompany is not buying into that.

The Belgian defender warned there was no room for complacency against Southampton.

“After 15 years at this level the one thing you learn is you do not crown yourself champions in November,” he said. –