Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has said that he was not impressed by the tactics employed by Middlesbrough during this afternoon's Premier League clash between the two sides.
City dropped valuable points in the Premier League title race as Marten De Roon scored a stoppage-time equaliser to cancel out Sergio Aguero's opener at the Etihad Stadium.
Aguero and Kevin De Bruyne both missed chances to give the hosts a cushion, and Guardiola was left to rue the missed opportunities.
Asked if he was impressed by Boro's gameplan, Guardiola told reporters: "No I am not... I am not here to talk about the performance of my opponents. [Aitor Karanka] is their coach and knows better than me how they want to play. In the second half we didn't play like in the first half but I didn't think we played badly.
"I think they had one chance in the beginning of the second half and one in the last minute. Like against Everton and Southampton, when you see what the opponents did in all three games at home and we dropped six points, they arrived maybe four or five times in our box. When you play the way we want to play, they had 10 players in the box for 90 minutes.
"We created enough chances, we attacked really well and we controlled the counter-attacks but when you arrive in the last minutes just 1-0, everything can happen. If we talk about the performance after a demanding game last Tuesday, how we started, moving the ball right and left, maybe in the last minutes the team can be tired. But if we had scored the second goal, the chance for Sergio or Kevin (De Bruyne), the game was over."
City are now winless in their last three home games and have only won one of their last five Premier League outings.
Barney Corkhill
