After a mixed start to life at Manchester City, the Algerian has grown into one of Pep Guardiola’s most influential players
our years ago Riyad Mahrez may have been excused mixed feelings when, at the end of his first season with Manchester City, they won the domestic treble. He had hardly been incidental to the fact but nor had he proved pivotal: form-wise it had been a mixed introduction to
was a reminder of how integral Mahrez has become to what City produce now. He has plugged in to a degree most outsiders failed to foresee; at 32 the flightier edges have been curbed while the gliding, floating guile that made him such a unique proposition in the first place has remained.If three proves the magic number for City come the campaign’s end, Mahrez entered into the spirit here.
The all-engulfing presence of the Premier League was another diminishing factor. Once a jewel of the season’s business end, this fixture could hardly claim to take priority in either side’s intray even if nobody would sniff at its potential rewards.
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