Manchester City and Sergio Aguero score incredible team goal vs Hull City

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By Kobe Tong

Published Apr 8, 2017

It was just like Guardiola's Barcelona side of old - incredible stuff

When Pep Guardiola is your team’s manager, you’re never too far from fast-flowing football and large spells of possession.

While the Spaniard has struggled so far at Manchester City, his culture of cautious and intricate build-up play already seems thoroughly engrained. There’s certainly evidence to prove it.

Hull City at home was only ever going to be two things – a stroll in the park or a banana skin threatening to derail City’s top four chances.

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Thankfully for City fans, it’s quite convincingly proven a case of the former. Guardiola’s men quickly found themselves 2-0 up over the Tigers via an Ahmed Elmohamady own goal and no other than Sergio Aguero.

Fabian Delph then proceeded to put City out of site with a third goal for the Citizens.

The opening strike was about as fortuitous and ugly as a goal can get, yet Aguero’s finish couldn’t have been more different.

While his finishing touch was far from a thing of beauty, the build-up play behind the goal was simply astonishing. It wouldn’t be outrageous to suggest it was reminiscent of Guardiola’s Barcelona side of old.

Yes, it was that good. In fact, it started with Claudio Bravo and without a single touch from the away side, the ball was in the net over 20 passes later.

Raheem Sterling provided the crucial moment of inspiration, gallivanting into the area with a brilliant turn of pace. Moreover, he was able to pick out Aguero who obliged with a finish that squirmed its way through Eldin Jakupovic.

The crescendo of the brilliant team move can be seen below:

You’d think after such immaculate passing play that Guardiola would be overcome with happiness and excitement, right? Bizarrely not.

For reasons currently unknown, the 46-year-old didn’t initially celebrate the goal and proceeded to give John Stones an earful.

Regardless though, City are well on their way to yet another three points and cementing their place in the Champions League. Moreover, Hull haven’t proven an easy scalp under Marco Silva so it’s far from a hollow achievement.

That being said, the Tigers can be seen as the architects of their own downfall. In allowing the home side to have no less than 70% possession and sitting astonishingly far back, they were always at the mercy of passing play.