He Manchester City He is in total crisis. The team of Pep Guardiola added their fourth consecutive defeat against Brighton, who came back from 0-1 down in the final minutes of the match. The current Premier League champion thus enters a bad series of results of which the Etihad has no longer had any memory since the arrival of Guardiola in 2016, since it had just lost in the League Cup against the Tottenham, in league against Bournemouth d’Iraola and in the Champions League against Sportsman from Portugal by a landslide.
THE sky blue They were looking to get out of trouble against a Brighton team that had become one of the revelations of the English championship. Forced to impose himself, Guardiola chose to reserve two of his best players on the bench, Bernardo Silva and Kevin de Bruyne. It seemed that with Erling Haaland It was enough as the Norwegian scored the first goal, midway through the first half. But everything went wrong, with a tragic ending.
Brighton responded in the final stretch of the match and managed to not only equalize, but overturn the score. The team coached by Fabian Hürzeler equalized in the 78th minute thanks to João Pedro. Five minutes later, the Brazilian reappeared to assist O’Riley, which turned the Amex Stadium upside down and sent a City team flying through the air in free fall.
Guardiola is lost without Rodri
The Mancunian team has not found its best version since the Ballon d’Or injury. Rodri Hernandez He has already missed 11 games for City, after suffering a torn cruciate ligament in his knee. Since then, Guardiola’s side have won just six games, against inferior rivals like Watford -Second-, Bratislava Slovan either Prague Sparta.
On the same day that the midfielder was injured, they could not overcome the draw against the Arsenal. Added to this are other draws against Newcastle and the current four consecutive defeats. He Tottenham surprised by leaving them without the League Cup, by eliminating them in the round of 16, the Bournemouth by Andoni Iraola sowed doubt at the Etihad after their 2-1 victory and Gyokeres confirmed the crisis in the Champions League, guiding the Sportsman from Portugal to a 4-1 victory.
Manchester City enters total crisis
Forced to win the Premier League to follow in Liverpool’s footsteps and end their bad streak, Manchester City could not overcome a Brighton and Hove Albion who had just lost twice in a row against Liverpool, in the Cup and in the League. However, they were at the top of the ranking and, after the comeback against the citizens They are in the position of Champions.
Defeat leaves him Liverpool with options to escape through the leaderboard. City came within two points of networks in the ranking and, if they had won, they would have, in part, put an end to the doubts. With 25 points, they could finish provisional leaders, pending the Anfield match between Liverpool and Villa Aston of Emery, but the new defeat can only give the advantage to those of Arne Slot.
