Manchester City administrator backs Sergio Agüero to keep taking punishments

Get up and go Guardiola stays certain about Sergio Agüero's punishment taking capacity in spite of his most recent miss, against Everton on Saturday and which implies the Argentinian has now missed a sum of nine from 38.

                        

Since missing two at Dinamo Bucharest right on time in the season, Agüero scored from the spot against Stoke City and Swansea and in addition against Borussia Mönchengladbach in the opening Champions League amass diversion, however then missed in a World Cup qualifier against Paraguay five days prior.

Guardiola, talking after Saturday's 1-1 draw at the Etihad Stadium , said: "I cherish the players who have the identity to take the punishments. I adore it, I'm sad. So I will never say to a player who needs to take the punishments: 'No, I need another person to take them.'

"He's shrewd so if he's not feeling certain like this, then he will say: 'I'll venture back and let another person kick the punishment.' Yes, he has the identity to take one at the Nou Camp [in the Champions League on Wednesday]."

The Everton chief, Ronald Koeman, trusts Agüero may now have a "mental question" with respect to punishments. The disappointment at the Etihad Stadium was his 6th of 2016. The striker's unsuccessful endeavor came in the second half after he supplanted Kelechi Iheanacho and after Kevin De Bruyne additionally missed from the spot before the interim. Objectives from Romelu Lukaku and Nolito on 64 and 72 minutes shared the focuses to extend City's winless raced to three amusements.

He said: "Perhaps it is a tiny bit of a mental question, possibly for Agüero, I don't have a clue, since it is not the first occasion when that he has missed."

Koeman, who was a partner of Guardiola's at Barcelona amid their playing days, is obvious that City will represent a danger to Luis Enrique's side this week yet cautioned they might be picked off. "They are sufficiently solid as a group to get a decent result yet you play against Messi, Neymar and Suárez and you can score out of one shot yet Barcelona get four possibilities and they will score three times.

"That is the issue for them on Wednesday – the individual characteristics of Barcelona is so to a great degree high. In any case, City can beat Barcelona. They will likewise have the ball and I think it is the best diversion you can watch between the theory of two groups and it is a truly elevated expectation of football. I'm truly anticipating seeing that diversion.

"The way they played [against Everton], the way they appeared to the aficionados of City – it was an incredible execution however the outcome is not what they perhaps merited. However, in the event that they go ahead along these lines, with this football and they keep everybody fit [it can be] idealize."