Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne admits feeling tired as hectic festive period looms

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Agen CasinO  ~   Kevin De Bruyne admits he has felt tired as he prepares for Manchester City's hectic Christmas period.

Forward De Bruyne has been an-ever present for City since his £54million summer switch and has featured in their last 19 games, starting 17 of them.

Manuel Pellegrini gave him a breather by starting him on the bench against Swansea last Saturday, and the former Chelsea player confirmed he has found his return to English football tough.

City’s trip to Arsenal on Monday is the first of potentially five games in 16 days for De Bruyne, who was looking forward to a mid-winter break this time last year while with German side Wolfsburg.

It’s a busy time of year and it’s difficult to say how I’ll feel personally by the end of December because I’ve never experienced the Christmas period in England before,” said the Belgium star.

“At Wolfsburg, we had two-and-a-half weeks off, but it’s something new to adapt to.

“It’s been tough so far because we’ve had a lot of games each month. If I’m on the field, I’ll always give it my all. But sometimes afterwards you think, ‘Yeah, maybe I was a little bit tired and maybe it would have been better to have had a rest.’

“But you don’t think about these things when you are playing. At the moment, I’m fine and we’ll see how things go, but if I was feeling fatigue, then I would tell the coach.”

Bandar Judi Online CasinO  ~   City are still challenging on four fronts, despite their hectic schedule, and De Bruyne claims they are satisfied with the first half of the campaign.

He says they have done well, considering they have been without the likes of Vincent Kompany, David Silva, Pablo Zabaleta and Sergio Aguero for large chunks of the season.

“We’ve done well as a team and everything we wanted to do at this stage of the season, we’ve managed to achieve,” he said.

“It’s always difficult when you lose players, but I think we’ve coped as best as we could have hoped.

We’ve just got to maintain our position in the Premier League into the New Year by trying to end this year strongly.”

De Bruyne, 24, is firing City’s trophy push and has weighed in with nine goals and nine assists, but he disagrees with Raheem Sterling likening him to Luis Suarez.

“I don’t think I’m the same kind of player as Suarez,” he said modestly. “Maybe from a statistics point at the moment we are similar, but we are two different types of players.

“A lot of people talk about your contribution when you score and make a lot of goals, which is nice, but it’s not something I really think about.”