Ronald Koeman has praised Everton’s resilient start to the season but admitted it may take a miraculous performance to keep another clean sheet at Manchester City on Monday. Manchester City v Everton: match preview Read moreAsked whether Pickford would find it easy to collect another clean sheet against Pep Guardiola’s team, Koeman replied: “If we get a clean sheet on Monday I don’t know if it will be a miracle. “I am a good friend of Pep and I know the way he likes to play,” said Koeman, Guardiola’s former room-mate at Barcelona. After that they started to struggle but that’s football, you never know, it’s difficult to make predictions about who is the strongest. That’s football – but City are strong, of course they are strong.”

Source: The Guardian August 20, 2017 13:07 UTC