BLUES ARE LEFT REELING BY VIDEO NASTY

PEP Guardiola is keeping City’s pursuit of Premier League and Champions League glory on course by forcing his players to sit through videos of their every mistake.

The runaway league leaders are the only ones not allowed to fully enjoy their scintillating football this season, with the City manager insistent on dissecting their errors in painstaking detail.

Perfectionist Guardiola is determined to stamp out the most minor of blemishes, analysing videos even after the most impressive of performances.

For most observers it has been hard to find fault with a team that has rolled over opposition home and abroad in an unbeaten start to the season.

Even rivals have been left drooling as City have raced to an eight-point lead in the league.

Such has been their form there is an ever-growing belief Guardiola has assembled the finest team in Premier League history.

But the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager refuses to indulge such talk even predicting his side will not be able to emulate Arsenal’s Invincibles by going an entire league campaign without defeat.

After the recent 3-1 win against Arsenal, he identified their failure to score even more goals – taking his players through the occasions promising moves were allowed to break down.

City special: pages 42-44