PREMIER LEAGUE
From Barcelona to Boro, Man City go back to basics
London — After beating the "best team in the world", playing lowly Middlesbrough on a November afternoon in the north of England should bring Premier League leaders Manchester City nicely back to earth. Saturday’s home game may look like three easy, if unglamorous, points after City’s 3-1 Champions League heroics against Barcelona but midfielder Kevin De Bruyne is warning against complacency. Tuesday’s stunning victory followed a 4-0 thrashing of West Bromwich Albion in the league last weekend, a result that ended a sequence of six matches without a win and Pep Guardiola’s worst run as a manager. "Obviously everyone will talk about it because it was Barcelona, but if you lose at the weekend it doesn’t matter [what happened in the Champions League]," De Bruyne said. "We have to do the same as we did in these two games and try to win against Middlesbrough to go into the international break with a good series and try to maintain top spot in the league," he added. "It is very difficult....
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