Pep Guardiola told Ben Chilwell he’s a ‘really talented player’ after Manchester City’s dramatic win over Leicester, Foxes full-back reveals

Pep Guardiola told Ben Chilwell he’s a ‘really talented player’ after Manchester City’s dramatic win over Leicester, Foxes full-back reveals
Leicester’s Ben Chilwell has revealed Pep Guardiola personally told the full-back he thought he was a ‘really talented player’, following the Foxes clash with Manchester City last month.Amidst the celebrations following Vincent Kompany’s superb strike to give Manchester City the crucial win in their bid to win the Premier League for a second season running, Guardiola took the time out to praise Chilwell at the end of the game.Getty3

Chilwell gave a good account of himself as Leicester ran City close at the Etihad

Chilwell, 22, is in real contention to start in England’s Nations League semi-final against the Netherlands on Thursday night – a match you can listen to LIVE on talkSPORT.The defender has been linked with a move to Manchester City in the past as the likes of Benjamin Mendy and Oleksandr Zinchenko have been unable to fully establish themselves as the first choice on the left side of the high-standard Citizens defence.Guardiola has previous when it comes to approaching opposition players on the pitch.One incident saw an animated Guardiola remonstrate with Southampton forward Nathan Redmond during a Premier League encounter at the Etihad Stadium in November 2017, although Redmond said the Spaniard was actually quite complimentary about his abilities.Getty3

Guardiola appeared to get confrontational with Redmond but the Saints man was relaxed about the incident

On his encounter with Guardiola, Chilwell said: “He just said he thought I was a really talented player and he wanted me to keep playing well, getting up and down the pitch and never going away from it.That was it and then he walks off to the next person he wants to speak to.It was nice for such a successful manager to say Im a good player.”However, Chilwell stressed the immediate aim is to work under Brendan Rodgers, who has made a difference to his game within three months of arriving.“Im at Leicester and with Brendan coming in were all loving him being there and thats obviously where my heads at.Getty3

Could Chilwell be heading to Manchester City this summer?

“The gaffer at Leicester has come in and there are certain things in my game he wanted to change. In training I can get a bit angry and might take it out on people.“He said that is not going to help you, its just going to make you lose focus. Little things like that Ive not heard before.Chilwell’s England breakthrough came in October when he produced a man-of-the-match performance on his first senior Three Lions start – a goalless draw at Croatia.He also started the game where the Nations League campaign really caught fire for Gareth Southgate’s men – a brilliant 3-2 win over Spain.

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A win over Croatia the following month at Wembley put England through to the last four of the competition in Portugal and now Chilwell and his team-mates are targeting Nations League glory.He said: “In the Spain game I found the people I was playing against were finding positions on the pitch which I’ve not really faced before.Thiago Alcantara especially, he was finding little pockets, it was difficult to know whether to go and press him or not. It’s a learning curve but I was playing with players around me who were helping me through it. Were all looking forward to the summer and winning something, winning a major trophy which a senior team has not done since 1966.Were just excited for that. This is a young squad and we want to win stuff now. We dont want to learn over the next few years and start winning in a few years.“We want to win this summer and then continue to win for the rest of our careers.

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