The England midfielder has no longer been the dominant force he turned into at Aston Villa seeing that his British-file £one hundred million pass to the Premier League champions in August, scoring just 3 desires and making 3 assists in all competitions.
The 26-yr-old even admitted in an interview in December that he had located the transition extra tough than he had anticipated and thought he could get extra assists and dreams.
But Guardiola stated he was glad with the winger's contribution.
"Maybe he listened too much to what the humans say and it is incorrect," stated the City boss, whose facet play second-tier Peterborough inside the FA Cup 5th round on Tuesday.
"Always we talk about the records. Players today play for the facts, however this is the most important mistake they are able to do.
"Statistics are just a chunk of data that we've got, but there are gamers that make the group play accurate and aren't in the data."
Grealish has now not featured in City's past four games due to a shin hassle however become an unused alternative for Saturday's Premier League victory at Everton and may want to return to movement at Peterborough.
Guardiola said goals would come for Grealish but emphasised that changed into no longer his predominant function inside the crew.
"We did not buy him to attain 45 goals," he stated. "He would not have that exceptional however he has another one. He's playing right, absolutely. I wouldn't inform you if he is now not gambling top, but this is no longer the case."
