Manchester City boss Guardiola hails Napoli as one of Europe´s best

Pep Guardiola is wary of Manchester City s Champions League foes Napoli, labelling Maurizio Sarri s men as one of the best three teams in Europe.

City avoided Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid at Thursday s draw, the big guns who have habitually dogged their group-stage campaigns since ascending to the continent s top competition in 2011-12 a season where defeat in Naples preceded round-robin elimination.

Shakhtar Donetsk represented a more favourable pot one opponent but, in a group also containing Eredivisie champions Feyenoord, it was Napoli who grabbed Guardiola s attention.

When the third pot team is Napoli the best team in the pot it is complicated, he told a news conference ahead of City s Premier League trip to Bournemouth on Saturday.

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