Pep Guardiola was in an ominous mood before Manchester City’s Champions League clash with Napoli on Wednesday night.
'Tomorrow we have a big, big challenge,' he told reporters. 'There will be moments to defend, moments when we are going to suffer like never before.’
It is not a notion City’s players are familiar with but the Spaniard is all too aware that, for the first time this season, his side come up against an attacking outfit as destructive as the one at his own disposal.
Maurizio Sarri’s side sit top of Serie A, unbeaten and having scored 32 goals in the process.