He Manchester City It’s a tinderbox right now. It seems that no one is able to find an explanation for what is happening to the Premier League champion, but the only thing certain is that the crisis is real and they have won only one game in the last thirteen, the worst streak in the player’s career. Pep Guardiola.
Where football doesn’t reach, let pride do. That should be the maxim that City embraces in their duel that closes the year against the Leicester. Not a bad year, far from it, but with a bittersweet feeling for what has happened in this final stretch. It seems that having won another Premier League, the fourth in a row (something I had not previously achieved before), I am already far behind. Not luckily for the club’s management, which renewed Pep Guardiolaan idol in Manchester, but with the troubled river of possible sanctions to which the club is exposed, the situation now exposes a sporting crisis and, what is worse, a gaming crisis, something that has always been plenty of with the Catalan coach .
The figure of Rodri is the one that appears at each point that the City. Also that of the possible alternatives to the Spanish in this winter transfer market in which the club will have to do work, because Guardiola It has already been stated that they will have to look for reinforcements. And that they work better than the ones from this summer, because neither Savinho nor Gundogan They seem to be in their best version. Even so, the ‘sky blue’ start as favorites because Ruud Van Nistelrooy’s Leicester seems to have few arguments to be able to get something. Something not to take advantage of, since Everton seemed to have no options either.
City’s big problem right now lies in the disconnections of the defense. Injuries do not help Rúben Dias and John Stonesas well as the more than likely substitution of a Walker still affected, so Lewis, Akanji, Aké and Gvardiol They will have to raise the level, like Kovacic, in charge of making Rodri forget for the moment. But the feeling that everyone is underperforming is widespread. appeared as a lifesaver DeBruyne upon returning from the injury but the years are beginning to weigh on the Belgian and, although he has plenty of football, he is beginning to lack physical fitness. A party that asks for the step forward of Fodenvery dull this course, and even Erling Haalandwhich comes from missing a penalty.
He Leicester It’s a mystery. The project with Van Nistelrooy has just begun and he has only been able to leave a few strokes. The team comes from losing against Liverpool, the infallible leader of the Premier League. It is likely that the Dutchman’s approach is similar to the one he used against Arne Slot. Steal and run will be the premise, focusing on Mavididi being able to create danger while being defended by Lewis, the weakest in the City defence, and Doku’s speed being able to create problems for the centre-backs.
It is too early to rule out Manchester City of the title race. There is still a lot of league and many points left. But it is evident that they need a cheer before closing 2024.
