Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City has entered the unknown. After 3-3 against Feyenoord, they have become the first team in the history of the Champions League to lead a game by three goals in the 75th minute, and fail to win it… They have not won a game in which They were up three goals for the first time since May 1989. And they had six consecutive games conceding two or more goals for the first time in 61 years. The data is dramatic.
In fact, that season, 1962-63, City was relegated to the Second Division. They conceded 102 goals in 24 games. It was another time. Starting because that City… was not this City. A team that is already European champion, dominant in the Premier League and a candidate for everything season after season… that is now failing.
Guardiola’s men waste a 3-0 and continue in crisis
“This is a football dynasty and to win four Premier Leagues in a row you have to have extraordinary talent and desire, and all those buzzwords that we associate with football…”, Stuart Pearce, former coach, analyzed on ‘Amazon Prime’. of the City. And he added: “But Manchester City does not know this terrain, and they have to adapt quickly. On Sunday they will have the most important test of the Premier League with the match against Liverpool.”
Manchester City does not know this terrain, and has to adapt quickly
Stuart Pearce
And the drama can get worse: they go to Anfield, to the leader’s house. To face one of the teams in the best shape on the Old Continent. “You can’t keep making individual mistakes. You can do everything you want, but if your players fail individually… This has happened in the last six games. They lack a leader, a strong leader in the rearguard,” analyzed Clichy, former of the City.
if your players fail individually… This has happened in the last six games. They lack a leader, a strong leader in the rearguard
Gael Clichy
The City players, after the 3-3.LAPRESSE.
“We have never seen defensive weaknesses like these in Manchester City. It seems that it is manifesting itself in all the games they have played recently,” were the words of Townsed, former England international, on the ‘BBC’. Everyone agrees: the situation is delicate.
We have never seen defensive weaknesses like these in Manchester City
Andrew Townsed
Guardiola, touched
“There is no need to tell them anything. [a los jugadores]. They know it perfectly…”, declared Guardiola after the 3-3 against Feyenoord. “We are fragile,” he added. The loss of Rodri, the team’s most decisive player, has been added to the absences of Rúben Dias, Kovacic and Bobb. Or the return, now, of a De Bruyne far from his best level.
No need to tell them anything [a los jugadores]. They know it perfectly…
Pep Guardiola
“I don’t know if it’s mental. The first goal can’t happen and neither can the second. We were desperate to win and do well… we do well but we don’t win games. The situation is what it is. We had a good game, but At this level we cannot give them anything,” Guardiola analyzed before the press. But he gave away. His team, for the first time in all his years in Manchester, unraveled from defense. And he scores fewer goals than his rival. An equation that translates into not winning games.
I don’t know if it’s mental. The first goal cannot happen and neither can the second. We were desperate to win and do well…
Pep Guardiola
Pep Guardiola, during the match against Feyenoord.EFE.
“We gave the game away,” he acknowledged. “It feels like a defeat,” he added. ‘Is it a mentality problem?’ That seems to be the most repeated question right now. And Aké did not avoid her: “Maybe it is. It’s hard to say. Obviously we haven’t been in this situation many times, but this is where we have to show our character. When everything seems to be going against us and everyone discards us, we have to stay mentally strong, believe in ourselves and stick together.
When everything seems to be going against us and everyone is writing us off, we have to stay mentally strong, believe in ourselves and stick together.
Nathan Ake
Next Sunday, against Liverpool, they will have the opportunity to get up again. But there is another risk: stumbling again and being 11 points behind the Premier League leader on matchday 13.
