Rodri: Adapting to 'overwhelming' Man City not easy

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Rodri has enjoyed an impressive start to his Manchester City career, despite admitting he has plenty to learn from Pep Guardiola.

Adapting to life as the holding midfielder in an ultra-attacking Manchester City side is no easy task, according to the club's record signing Rodri.

"I feel better every day," Rodri told his club's official website.

"It's good for me to play minutes [because] it is not easy to get into a team with the dynamic City have ­– overwhelming, always wanting to attack.

"I'm trying to settle well, I know I still have a lot to learn, but I'm happy because Pep Guardiola is showing me a lot of confidence.

"I want to help the team with my style, but at this current point I need to identify what the team demands."

Gabriel Jesus had what he thought was an injury-time winner ruled out at the weekend when a VAR review penalised Aymeric Laporte for handball in the build-up to the goal.

Rodri was involved in an earlier controversy when the video official decided not to advise referee Michael Oliver to award a penalty after Spurs winger Erik Lamela appeared to pull the Spain international to the ground.

"It is a little bit difficult to get used to it," the 23-year-old said of VAR. "Sometimes you don't know why some actions are checked and others aren't, but I think that the officials try to do their job the best they can.

"We can only analyse what we control, we can't control the things that are not in our hands."

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