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Pep Guardiola targets 'full circle' of trophies after Manchester City win Super Cup

Pep Guardiola has already set his sights on the next trophy missing from Manchester City's cabinet after the treble winners claimed the Uefa Super Cup for the first time after defeating Sevilla on penalties following a 1-1 draw in Greece.

In a tense game, Youssef En-Nesyri's towering first-half header gave the Spanish Europa League holders the lead. European champions City were far from their best, but hit back to force the game to penalties through Cole Palmer's header.

City were then perfect from the spot and prevailed 5-4 in the shootout after Sevilla defender Nemanja Gudelj smashed against the bar.

Two months on from becoming the second English club in history to win the treble, City have now won the Super Cup for the first time and Guardiola is determined to add the Club World Cup to their haul in December.

Should City win the Club World Cup, it would complete Guardiola's honours list since arriving in England, which also includes five Premier League titles, four League Cups, two FA Cups and the club's first Champions League.

"We are really pleased to have already one title in this season. Really pleased for the club - this title we didn't have and now we have it," the City manager said.

"We miss just one to finish the full circle and be able for this club to win all the titles we can have. It's happening in December, when we go to Saudi Arabia to play there, the [Club] World Cup.

"I would say really, really pleased. A tight game like happened in the [Champions League] final against Inter, a tight game that we lost in the last minute against Arsenal [in the Community Shield]. Football in these stages, in that moment, in that period is a coin flip."

Guardiola had bemoaned his side's lack of preparation for the new

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