Two-goal Gabriel a real son-shine boy

League since August and were perfectly timed with a fit-again Sergio Aguero watching from the bench.

Jesus says his mum has helped him regain his confidence and he presented her with the match ball from his first City hat-trick against Shakhtar Donetsk last month.

His only disappointment was that he could not complete another hat-trick to earn another ball for her.

Pleased

“I tried, but it is difficult,” he said. “My confidence is back because my family is here and it helps me a lot. I need my family in this moment.”

Guardiola is pleased with Jesus’ efforts to settle at City and was delighted to hear him conduct his first interview in English.

The Blues boss, who speaks four languages, is big on the club’s foreign players learning English. “I insist on them having to learn English because sometimes I have the feeling he maybe doesn’t understand me when I speak in English, so it’s important to have that feeling that he’s speaking English much better,” said the Spanish coach.

Guardiola had much else to be happy about as Raheem Sterling headed home City’s third, just four minutes after Dominic Calvert-Lewin had reduced the deficit in the 65th minute, to show how well he is dealing with the alleged racist abuse he suffered at Chelsea.

Aguero and Kevin De Bruyne are finally both fit and the Belgium star came on for the last 15 minutes.

Most importantly, the result was also the perfect response from City to suffering their first league defeat of the season at Chelsea.

Bernardo Silva said: “It was good after the defeat against Chelsea to give an answer.”