Final Up to date: January 06, 2023, 10:32 IST
Manchester Metropolis’s Jack Grealish and Erling Haaland (AP)
Jack Grealish bagged his third Premier League help of the marketing campaign and matched his tally from final season
Manchester Metropolis playmaker Jack Grealish stated adapting to the staff’s fashion of play has been rather more tough than he imagined, nearly 18 months after his league document 100 million kilos ($119.25 million) switch from Aston Villa.
Grealish got here off the bench to create Metropolis’s successful objective at an injury-hit Chelsea on Thursday, sending in a pinpoint cross for fellow substitute Riyad Mahrez to faucet in and transfer Pep Guardiola’s aspect to inside 5 factors of leaders Arsenal.
The 27-year-old bagged his third Premier League help of the marketing campaign and matched his tally from final season, however he nonetheless had extra league objectives and assists in his closing season at Villa than he has had since his August 2021 transfer to Metropolis.
“After I got here right here, I’ll be sincere, it was a lot harder than I believed,” Grealish informed Sky Sports activities after Metropolis’s 1-0 win.
Grealish registered six objectives and 10 assists for Villa within the league in 2020-21 however solely has 4 objectives and 6 assists within the competitors since becoming a member of Metropolis.
“In my head I believed I used to be going to the staff sitting prime of the league and I used to be going to get so many objectives and assists and clearly it isn’t the case. Lots of groups have a tendency to take a seat in in opposition to us and that wasn’t the case at Villa,” Grealish stated.
“(Former Villa supervisor) Dean Smith would inform me to go and discover the weak hyperlink within the defence, whether or not that was on the proper, the center or whether or not I needed to hug the touchline – and at Villa, I all the time had an overlapping full-back.
“I got here into Metropolis, having been at Villa my complete life, and I’ve by no means needed to change. I’ve all the time been used to that. I didn’t realise how onerous it’s to adapt to a special staff and supervisor.”
Manchester Metropolis host Chelsea within the FA Cup on Sunday.
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