Defeat on derby day is always dangerous, but City of Manchester City Manchester United's defeat yesterday afternoon was something else.
It's Pep Guardiola The team is facing challenges they have never faced under the Spanish coach.
The Citizens have now lost eight of their last 11 games and look like a shadow of what they once were, and yesterday was certainly not the case.
Man City's latest results |
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Competition |
They will object |
Results |
Premier League |
Manchester United (H) |
2-1 (L) |
Champions League |
Juventus (A) |
2-0 (L) |
Premier League |
Crystal Palace (A) |
2-2 (D) |
Premier League |
Nottingham Forest (H) |
3-0 (W) |
Premier League |
Liverpool (A) |
2-0 (L) |
There was poor performance throughout the game for the hosts, but two players, including Matheus Nunesappeared for all the wrong reasons.
Nunes action vs United
Now, the first thing to say is that most of the reasons for Nunes' lack of visibility must be done by Guardiola, because the team's injuries have seen him start the Brazilian at left back, which is a position. he had never played before.
That said, the former Wolverhampton Wanderers' lack of education cannot be used as an excuse for his lack of involvement in most games or his costly mistakes at the end.
For example, when the whole team had to face the blame for the loss last night, it was the 26-year-old who gave the same penalty for a mistake on Amad Diallo, who defeated his lazy back.
Then, less than two minutes later, he failed to come back and clear the Ivory Coast's winning effort on the line despite seemingly having time to do so.
Unsurprisingly, such a show sees GIVEMESPORT Award for Kerrie Jacobs-Bryant he's a 4/10, which seems better than his faults.
However, while Nunes turned in a superb performance in the final five minutes, one of his team-mates was poor throughout the game and should not start again for City.
The city was worse than Nunes
Now, as we've said before, there were some tough shows across the board from last night's hosts, but the worst was without a doubt. Kyle Walker.
The City captain has been missing for some time, but he was poor yesterday.
The former Tottenham Hotspurs star was poor going forward and, like Nunes, was a disaster in defence, walking into the box to set up Diallo's winning goal.
In fact, the most impressive thing he did in the game was showing a head injury when he met Rasmus Hojlund, which Roy Keane said should leave him. feeling "shameful" after the game.
Such a display left Jacobs-Bryant himself indifferent, when he presented the award Englishman a 4/10 charts throughout and doubling down on the 'shameful' nature of Hojlund's incident.
However, if we look at his stats from the game, we can say that the number 4/10 is still very generous.
For example, in his 96 minutes of actionThe Sheffield-born defenseman averaged 0.03 assists, had just one block, one hit and one clearance, lost 50% of his floor games, lost the ball an incredible 20 times, kept an accuracy of just 76%, missed nine of 11 long shots and he failed 50% of his games.
Walker's game in numbers |
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A minute |
96' |
Expected Contributions |
0.03 |
Blocks |
1 |
Struggle |
1 |
Discount |
1 |
Ground Duels (Winner) |
4 (2) |
Throwing Things Away |
20 |
Passing Right |
55/72 (76%) |
Longest Paths (Right) |
11 (2) |
Shooting |
0 |
Dribbles (Best) |
2 (1) |
In the end, while the rest of City's team was poor against United yesterday, Nunes, and Walker in particular, proved to be the worst, and while the Brazilian must keep his place in the team, Pep must leave the Englishman.
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