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Guardiola challenges Sterling to maintain top form

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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has challenged Raheem Sterling to maintain his top form and reach the level of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. The Englishman has dazzled since the very start and also scored in the international wins over Bulgaria and Kosovo in the Euro 2020 qualifiers.

His impressive displays have sent pundits labelling him as a future Ballon d’Or winner. However, Guardiola has said that he is yet to reach the level Ronaldo and Messi are at.

“Right now no, but maybe in the future, I wish for it,” said Guardiola.

“They (Ronaldo and Messi) scored 50 or 60 goals a season in the last decade, and have won the Ballon d’Or and prizes every year except this one… they are legends, something unique in world football.”

“If Raheem can target that level, wow.”

“Of course, he can do it and I won’t be the guy to tell him his limits… I want him to practice after training.”

“It is his talent and desire,” Guardiola added.

“With Brendan Rodgers too (at Liverpool) he played well and also for the national team.”

“Since the beginning, he has had an incredible mentality to get better and be more clinical, and he’s a winning player now.

“Sometimes before he made good dribbling action but not the finish, now he can win games by himself.”

“Always it’s practice and practice and practice and mentality.”

“The guys who score goals are in front of the goal, you cannot score goals when you aren’t in those positions. Now he is.”

Manchester City will face Norwich in the league this weekend, as they try to catch Liverpool at the top of the table.

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