Manuel Pellegrini praises the depth of the Manchester City squad

Pellegrini watches his squad take on West Ham United

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has stated that the depth of his team will go a long way this season, Sky Sports reports.

Sergio Aguero continued his fine form with a brace and an assist for David Silva in the 3-1 thumping of West Ham United. Ricardo Vaz Te scored the consolation goal for The Hammers.

The Manchester based team, who have an important match against Chelsea next week, now sit fourth in the Premier League.

The win which comes after a 3-2 setback at the hands of Aston Villa was a welcome relief to Pellegrini who said: “Winning the game was most important thing for us.

“The team played very well, we scored three goals, the best player for West Ham was their goalkeeper – he made four or five important saves.

“I spoke with the players before the game. We lost two games away 3-2… to score two away is a good average. Today we scored three again, so we will continue trying to be an offensive team.

“Having players of the quality of Silva, Aguero, Nasri, Dzeko, I think this team must always play on the attack.

“It is never a problem to have good players on the bench. It’s more important when you don’t have players who can change a result.

“That’s why for us it’s very important to have players of good quality because we have a lot of games to play this year. The quality of players is what makes the difference.

“I said I think we must keep all the (good) things we have done in the other games but concentrate more on the defending, that is what we have done today.

“Before we started the game, we knew Chelsea and Arsenal had won their games so we wanted to only be three points behind the leaders.

“We will try in the next game away at Chelsea to recover the points we lost at the beginning of the Premier League.

“It’s not a normal, the games we lost against Cardiff and Aston Villa – but football is like that and today we played well.”

Manchester City will travel to Russia on October 23rd to face CSKA Moscow in the Champions League.