He Manchester City seems to be going through his first crisis of the season. The English team has had two consecutive defeats (against Tottenham in the Carabao Cup and in front Bournemouth In Premier League) who sounded the alarm for a team which lost the lead in the championship.
Pep Guardiola’s men have two important defeats like those of DeBruyne And Rodri Hernandeza factor which has become key to witnessing this small decline in the performances of the great dominator of English football in recent times. But they cannot heal their wounds and are already thinking about their next commitments.
British football has already entered into a whirlwind of almost non-stop matches and this has caused deep unease for the Catalan coach. This was made known after the setback against Bournemouth stating that ““If we had five more days to recover and prepare for the game, maybe we would have been better.”
Guardiola, who compared football “to NBAbut they have four months of vacation and we barely have three weeks”, he also pointed out that the situation of his team can also be due to the accumulation of efforts that his players have been making for several years: “This isn’t this season, it’s the previous season, and the previous season, and the previous season. “You have injuries for a long time, but it’s inevitable,” he said.
“Maybe we will go to the World Cup, reach the final stages of the competitions and end up playing almost 70 games in a season,” the Manchester City coach added to the media with some unease.
Maximum competitiveness
Despite Guardiola’s “complaints” and Manchester City’s last two setbacks, the reality seen under a broader prism clearly shows that the Mancunian team is having an excellent season.
Until this “tragic week”, they had played 14 games without losing and leaving good feelings despite the absence of two of the three most important players in the squad. Enviable records thanks, in large part, to the excellent performances of Erling Haaland.
Haaland celebrates one of his three goals scored against Ipswich.
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The Norwegian striker has started the season in exceptional fashion. He has 14 goals in 14 matches and has several exhibitions to his credit during these first three months of competition.
In fact, his contribution was key to Manchester City being two points behind the Premier League leader and third in the first phase of the Champions League, having won two and drawn three games.
