Manchester City fans have joked ‘there’s no way’ Josko Gvardiol is a defender after his latest exploits.
Gvardiol, 22, was the Champions’ knight in shining amour on Sunday afternoon after Wolves took a shock lead at Molineux. However, Gvardiol was there to fire Pep Guardiola’s side level, skipping inside before the curling the ball into the net.
Jose Sa, who was at full stretch, couldn’t get near the strike. And City fans on social media have started to question if Gvardiol is in fact a defender: “Gvardiol is the funniest defender City have ever had! What do you mean he’ll just curl a shot top bins with consistency…”
“Bro Gvardiol’s goal catalogue for a defender is crazy,” a second joked. While a third posted: “Josko Gvardiol is not a defender man let’s stop pretending. He’s a world class attacker FFS! What a goal!”
“Is Gvardiol actually a defender? This guy has been scoring screamers,” a fourth questioned. As another added: “Gvardiol is probably just conning all of us to believe he is defender. How can a defender have that level of precision to score a curler like that?”
Gvardiol proved he had something of a striker’s instinct at the back end of last season – and he’s continued his goalscoring touch into the new campaign.
Before the latest international break, the Croatian netted a wondergoal against Newcastle. Jack Grealish slotted the ball in the direction of Gvardiol, who cut inside past Dan Burn and then wrong-footed Nick Pope by smashing the ball at his near post.
Sunday afternoon was Gvardiol’s fifth goal in his last seven away games for City.