Man City ace Rico Lewis makes Burnley admission as Pep Guardiola tactic questioned

Here are your Manchester City evening headlines on Sunday, March 19.

Manchester City players were just as happy with their clean sheets against RB Leipzig and Burnley this week as they were with their 13 goals.

City produced a stunning display in the Champions League on Tuesday to progress to the quarter-finals, and followed that up with a 6-0 FA Cup win over Burnley to set up a Wembley semi-final. Rico Lewis was recalled to the side for the FA Cup clash and impressed once again at left-back against the Clarets to help record a fifth clean sheet in a row on the way to six wins in succession.

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So despite the remarkable goalscoring exploits of Erling Haaland and his attacking teammates, Lewis revealed that City's defenders were just as happy with the two clean sheets this week.

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Former Liverpool midfielder Graeme Souness has questioned Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola's handling of Kevin De Bruyne.

The Belgium midfielder endured a difficult World Cup despite being in fine form pre-tournament. Since returning from the World Cup, De Bruyne has struggled at times and has found himself out of the starting XI on a number of occasions.

Speaking about his star midfielder's form this week, Guardiola said: "What I'd like - I spoke many times to him - is to go [back] to the easy principles and do it well. He has an incredible ability to make an assist, to score goals and see passes like no one else. But I always have a belief that they will increase and will get better when the simple things, like don't lose the ball, the mobility, the incredible capacity to be active in the movement - the simple things - do it again