Guardiola is backing Grealish to get the goals
PEP Guardiola is confident the goals will soon start to flow for Jack Grealish at Manchester City.
The champions’ £100million British record signing has scored just two goals since his summer move from Aston Villa.
The 26-year-old’s frustration was compounded as he missed a gilt-edged chance in Saturday’s hard-fought Premier League win over Wolves - but Guardiola has no doubt he will deliver.
The City manager said: “Jack has to do exactly what he is doing, no more than that. The rest will come.
“He has chances to score two or three goals every game and it one day he is going to do it.
“He could have had a hat-trick against Watford and in the last game one or two goals again.
“The way Jack is playing is good but when you play a fantastic team like Wolves, who are incredibly well organised defensively, it is a good compliment for them that to break their structure is so complicated. It was difficult for all the players, not just Jack.
“Never in my career did I find one season when every player stays, from the beginning to the end, in top form. There are highs and lows.
“Jack doesn’t have to score. What he has to do is play like he knows what to do, feel his contribution is helping to win games and the rest will come.”
City are back in action as they host Leeds tonight. Marcelo Bielsa’s side took four points off City last season and Guardiola expects another difficult night.
He said: “Leeds are one of our toughest opponents. They play in a special unique way and we play against this special unique way just two times a year.
“We have to adjust a few things because it is different to other opponents. We are not used to these type of games.
“This is the type of game where we know we will have to suffer. We have to try to adapt and impose what we want to do.”
Guardiola, meanwhile, has urged his players and staff to make sure they get their coronavirus vaccination booster as soon as they become eligible.
He said: The doctors suggest that they have to do it.”