You cannot always glean much from pre-season friendlies but Manchester City’s game against Inter in Hong Kong on Saturday might be a big hint at what is to come, particularly for Antoine Semenyo and his fellow wingers.Enzo Maresca, speaking after his first match in charge of City, let fans know they can expect exciting wide play this season. “I always asked for that kind of winger. You need the players outside that can beat their man one-v-one.”One of the standout features of the match at the Kai Tak Stadium was the direct dribbling of Semenyo, Savinho and 18-year-old Ryan McAidoo — and it came as no surprise to Semenyo.“When we played Chelsea when Maresca was there, his wide men were always high and wide and quite free,” he tells The Athletic.“That was one of the things that excited me the most when he was appointed. I get to have one-v-one situations most of the game, and I’m looking forward to it.”Semenyo joined from Bournemouth for £62.5million ($84m) in the January transfer window and made a big impact in his half-season at City, scoring 11 goals, including the winner in the FA Cup final.Antoine Semenyo lifts the FA Cup after scoring the only goal in the final (Darren Staples/Getty Images)The Ghana international had interest from several top clubs but picked City, and says he was excited to improve under Pep Guardiola, rather than paying attention to the growing speculation about the former manager leaving at the end of the season.“As a player,” he says, “you’re thinking about yourself selfishly, and that’s not to be nasty or anything. I just wanted the next step to be the big one.“Pep spoke to me beforehand. He said, ‘Look, when you come, I’m going to make you a better player’, and that’s music to my ears. You want to get better, you want to improve every season, and he definitely helped me in the first five months.“When I came in, I wanted to do everything at 100 miles per hour, and sometimes I was going too fast for the ball, too fast for my feet and he always said to me, ‘We have the ball a lot, just relax, there’ll be an opening, play the ball out wide, if it comes back again, just be ready to go one-v-one’. It was just making sure I’m in the right position to receive the ball and go one-v-one at the right time.