Kevin De Bruyne

Do you know who's one of the highest dispossessed players in the Premier League? Right up there in the rankings, and I mean right in the top three.

Kevin De Bruyne.

Yeah, he, he didn't get...

He didn't do much, did he? It's just in isolation, it's the thickest stat.

... he's got that joint record.

I think Kevin De Bruyne and him hold that record.

So incredible really, and you know, he's already got, [laughs] you know, what, two in the Premier League from three games, and he's got, uh, four from five if you include the Champions League and Community Shield.

So he's in incredible form.

Thierry Henry had set the record of 20 in the 2002-2003 season.

Kevin De Bruyne had matched it 17 years later.

Then, on the final day at Brighton, Bruno swung in a corner to Patrick Dorgu, who headed it home.

Assist number 21, a record which had survived Henry, De Bruyne, and every magnificent play maker who followed them, had finally fallen.

But then came the avalanche.

He passed David Beckham's Manchester United record of 15 assists.

He caught up with Thierry Henry and Kevin De Bruyne's 20.

And even though he got off to a late start, he was still the one to break the record.

And Napoli were coming into that with two defeats on the bounce, I think, to Inter and Como.

but they're still a good side they've got good players de bruyne was back mctominay was out but you could see the class of de bruyne even in this game he's still unbelievable but this was about arsenal this was a game that we went out and showed our class and when i say per finishing it really was per finishing because i don't remember a game where we've created as many clear-cut chances and The one that I think gets overlooked is Ben White when he got the ball in the left half space and he's completely unchallenged.

He kind of scuffs his shot and those kind of actions, Marino's header and Kapie two yards out.

You look at it when it was repeated miss after miss, it kind of reminded me of United in the FA Cup a couple of years ago.

When we were just creating overload after overload, chances, we're in the six-yard box so many times, just couldn't get the ball in the back of the net.

I was getting flashbacks.

And then you know when De Bruyne carries, there's always that risk that he's going to be able to ping one.

But we got over the line.

They had a couple attacks.

Kevin De Bruyne, he tried coming back to haunt us.

Back when he was on City, he gave us a lot of problems.

He loved playing against us, and he did try picking up where he left off with that.

And yeah, as you said, we'll be beating teams before we even get out there.

But just having that one goal lead 89th minute, De Bruyne, maybe De Bruyne of five years ago would have taken a shot there.

So the one that you're always susceptible to variance, that's the one thing with the 1-0 lead.

So no matter how dominant we were, no matter how good we are, just need to just sort of like, you know, keep going.

You feel me? And that almost feels stifling.

That's why when there is, that's why when there is, that's why, that's why, so again, believing that talent, believing that his talent, is the all-important so again that's why i think carrick is a is a better fit for me yeah for sure it's not it's not because again if you look at marino's game right you don't want to look at money again they don't they don't immediately say this guy is as talented as pep guardiola because what he has done is a mask his mask is this guy's this the element of his game so you look at for example pep is very very no no you cannot take the ball in half turn get yeah i'm not giving i'm not leaving that to you i don't care how much i decide you are maybe silver okay great but even kevin de bruyne you know i'm not gonna allow you to do that doesn't stifle you in that sense if you think that you're a smart enough player he'll just tell you you know don't make a frustration pass so i feel like for me that's his distinction and that's why ultimately i want to carry take the job yeah above you know you know say say and you know oh come on

I was more open to it than you.

That's why

To me, they conceded so many chances.

Yes, De Bruyne could have won the game with the ball at the end.

But there is a lack of purpose.

You could lose.

Yeah.

And the guy that scored the goal bit him on the head.

And they got De Bruyne healthy.

And it's such a weird Manchester derby in that for a decade of us, it's been Pep Guardiola against various managers, but also City in almost every game have been huge favourites in that they've been bestried on top of the Premier League.

They've had Haaland, De Bruyne, all these star players and United have gone through the peaks and troughs of the decade.

But going into this one, it's weird.

It's a weird one in the city obviously aren't ready as yet.