Foden has been a prominent figure in Guardiola’s side in 2025/26, starting in the last six successive games in which City are unbeaten.
He has four goal involvements and looks to be back at his best following a difficult 2024/25 season that was impacted by injuries.
The 25-year-old will be looking to play another key role in City’s forward line on Sunday when we face Brentford at 16:30 (UK).
And if his record at the Gtech Community Stadium is anything to go by, the England international is bound to be involved.
Foden is the only City player to have scored at Brentford’s home ground since their promotion to the English top-flight in 2021/22.
In his pre-match press conference, Guardiola was quick to heap praise on Foden’s movement, awareness and energy as the reasons why he’s one of our best assets in the final third.
“He’s one of the best players we have in small spaces in the final third, by far,” said Pep.
“In terms of assists and in terms of goals in small spaces, how he times an attack and the desire to score a goal is the best we have.”
Watch Guardiola’s press conference in full via the video above...
Brentford v City app coverage
Our official app allows you to follow all of the action from our latest Premier League showdown with Brentford from one place.
Minute-by-minute text updates will begin in our Matchday Centre two hours before kick-off, while our Matchday Live show will begin at around 15:15 (UK).
Natalie Pike will be joined by former City and Brentford man Ben Mee as well as Paul Dickov in the studio.
During the game you can also listen to live audio commentary from Alistair Mann and Michael Brown while our text commentary continues.
Make sure to have push notifications turned on as well, so you can be alerted to key moments in the action, including goals, red cards and the team news.
We’ll have a quick-hit 2-minute highlights package available at 20:15 (UK), while you can sign-in to watch a free 8-minute edit at midnight.
On CITY+ meanwhile, there’ll be our popular full-match replay as well as our new extended highlights offering which features the best 20 minutes of action from the game. Both are also available at midnight.
