Pep Guardiola calls on out-of-sorts Kevin de Bruyne to go 支援する to basics ーするために 再度捕まえる his best form... as the Manchester City 星／主役にする 主張するs he will have 'no 悔いるs' even if he fails to 勝利，勝つ the 支持する／優勝者s League with the club

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The families of Manchester City's squad were all at the training ground celebrating the birthday of Kevin De Bruyne's son on Monday but Pep Guardiola wants his talisman to stop the party tricks. At the moment, he might be trying too hard to entertain.

De Bruyne, undoubtedly the best player of the Guardiola 時代 - the man who has dug City out of all sorts over the years - has 苦しむd something of a 下落する. He has started three of the last seven 首相 League matches from the （法廷の）裁判, recently 孤立した 早期に from a victory over Newcastle 部隊d with the result in the balance.

These are not normal 状況／情勢s for the 31-year-old to find himself in, although he believes he is 一般に held to a higher 基準. On Tuesday, a problematic 支持する／優勝者s League tie with RB Leipzig, finely 均衡を保った at 1-1, is 正確に／まさに the sort of occasion when City need him to 向こうずね. And it is one Guardiola is desperate to 支配（する）／統制する because he 恐れるs Leipzig's 潜在的に 破滅的な ability to break quickly.

Keeping 持つ／拘留する of 所有／入手 is 決定的な to the game 計画（する） and, fundamentally, Guardiola thinks De Bruyne is losing the ball too often. His passing 正確 is 78 per cent this season, 負かす／撃墜する from 83 per cent. It's やめる a big 減少（する） for somebody so good.

'What I'd like - I spoke many times to him - is to go [支援する] to the 平易な 原則s and do it 井戸／弁護士席,' the City boss said. 'He has an incredible ability to make an 補助装置, to 得点する／非難する／２０ goals and see passes like no one else.

Man City's talismanic midfielder Kevin de Bruyne has 苦しむd a 下落する in form over 最近の weeks

Pep Guardiola has 勧めるd the ベルギー 星／主役にする to go 支援する to basics ーするために return to his best

'But I always have a belief that they will 増加する and will get better when the simple things, like don't lose the ball, the mobility, the incredible capacity to be active in the movement - the simple things - do it again better and better. When this is going to happen, the 残り／休憩（する） will come.

'When the simple things are done perfectly... whatever you feel in that moment, the 活動／戦闘s to create incredible passes that only he can find will be easier, it will be better.' De Bruyne, who 述べるd himself as an 'old man' in football, was 栄えるing with Erling Haaland earlier in the （選挙などの）運動をする. Now there is an argument that he is 軍隊ing through balls in search of the Norwegian. It's nit-選ぶing, De Bruyne has still 記録，記録的な／記録するd more 補助装置s than anyone else in the league, and yet those higher 基準s do 適用する to him. 'I'm a perfectionist,' De Bruyne said.

Guardiola has 言及／関連d 類似の 主題s in previous months, most 顕著に in October when 説 the ベルギー was 'not playing his best'. In truth, 非，不，無 of them have for the whole season - not even 34-goal Haaland - and Guardiola 認める the season has been difficult. 'For all of us, me 含むd,' he said.

But they still remain in three 競争s, while this particular one feels like it has taken on even more importance. De Bruyne said he would 持つ／拘留する 'no 悔いるs' if City did not 解除する the 支持する／優勝者s League by the time he finishes. Their 関係 with Europe is the same each year: City are favourites and 落ちる at さまざまな 障害物s from the ４半期/4分の1 決勝戦 onward. いつかs hard luck stories, いつかs self-（打撃，刑罰などを）与えるd implosion. The perception is that not winning it with this group of players, and this 経営者／支配人, would be a 失敗.

De Bruyne has been the standout player of the Guardiola 時代, digging City out of several 穴を開けるs

City 直面する RB Leipzig in the second 脚 of their 支持する／優勝者s League last-16 tie on Tuesday night

'If you care about the noise then 明白に it's going to annoy [you] a little bit,' De Bruyne said. 'We've not won it but we've done really 井戸／弁護士席 in the CL and I know people base everything on only winning. I don't 悔いる the things I do. You lose way more than you 勝利，勝つ but luckily I've been able to 勝利，勝つ a lot so in that way I am really fortunate.

'You could 勝利，勝つ the 支持する／優勝者s League and not anything else. Then you will be called the best in Europe? I just don't know. What are the 基準 for 存在 the best team? Everybody has their own opinion on it and we want to be the best possible every year and in eight years it's been pretty 広大な／多数の／重要な.'

PROBABLE LINE UPS?

Manchester City (3-2-4-1): Ederson; 石／投石するs, Dias, Ake; Rodri, Silva; Foden, De Bruyne, Gundogan, Grealish; Haaland?

RB Leipzig (4-2-3-1): Blaswich; Henrichs, Orban, Gvardiol, Raum; Haidara, Laimer; Szoboszlai, Forsberg, Werner; Silva?

審判（をする）: Slavko Vincic (SVN)