'Many good things' in Club World Cup opener - Guardiola

Pep Guardiola says he saw "many good things" as Manchester City opened their Club World Cup campaign with a comfortable 2-0 win over Moroccan side Wydad AC.

New signings Tijjani Reijnders and Rayan Cherki started for City in Philadelphia as first-half goals from Phil Foden and Jeremy Doku secured the victory before Rico Lewis was sent off late on.

"We had good moments, many new players and the first game in this group stage is always important," Guardiola said post-match. "We started really well then after had some problems, especially when losing simple balls.

"But I saw many good things. The first three points is important."

City now travel to Atlanta to face Abu Dhabi's Al Ain on Monday [02:00 BST], with a win guaranteeing safe progress to the last 16.

"We have the second one to try to arrive in the last game as qualified - then the last game to define if we're first [in the group[]," Guardiola said.

"We'll recover, train good in the next few days and then have fresh legs for the next game.

"We'll try to step by step improve things. It's normal in this stage with new players and a lot of people coming from big injuries.

"Many players, we need to give them minutes otherwise if they come back from a long injury and don't play they'll never get it.

"Next game, 10 new players will be there to try and win."