The young centre-back made his competitive senior debut in the Carabao Cup and spent the night telling his senior team-mates what they should be doing
Pep Guardiola was glowing. In his broad assessment of Manchester City's Carabao Cup victory over Leicester on Tuesday night, the Catalan picked out a few key points.
"The people up front were not as brilliant as normal, but all the other guys were so good, especially Nico and Eric," he said. "Eric Garcia, at 17 years old, made an incredible performance."
It was indeed not City's most fluid night at the King Power Stadium, their makeshift team looking laboured for large parts, especially in the second half, and it took three penalty shoot-out saves from 20-year-old goalkeeper Aro Muric to send the Blues into the semi-final.