“Sometimes we want to kill him and sometimes you think wow what a player we have.” That was Pep Guardiola’s assessment of Benjamin Mendy after the Manchester City left back’s performance in the 2-0 win against Arsenal.

Mendy picked up assists for both of City’s goals, first laying the ball off and creating space for Raheem Sterling and then overlapping and crossing for Bernado Silva. If you haven’t seen the goals yet, check out the highlights below.

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It was an impressive performance but why does Mendy prompt such conflicting feelings in his manager? In the second Game Dissected column — a new weekly feature for this football season — we delve past the social media personality and analyse the good and the bad of City’s