A defeat on a derby day is always a disaster, but City’s loss to Manchester United yesterday afternoon was something else entirely.
Pep Guardiola’s side are going through a crisis, the likes of which they have never experienced under the Spanish coach.
The Citizens have lost eight of their last 11 games and don’t look like they used to, and yesterday was no exception.
Manchester City’s recent results | ||
|---|---|---|
competition | they will object | result |
Premier League | Manchester United (home) | 2-1 (left) |
Champions League | Juventus (guest) | 2-0 (left) |
Premier League | Crystal Palace (guest) | 2-2 (D) |
Premier League | Nottingham Forest (home) | 3-0 (female) |
Premier League | Liverpool(guest) | 2-0 (left) |
The home side’s performance on the field was poor but two players, including Matheus Nunes, stood out for all the wrong reasons.
Nunez’s performance against Manchester United
Now, the first thing to say is that much of the blame for Nunez’s poor performance should be shouldered by Guardiola, as the team’s injuries have led him to start the Brazilian at left-back, a position that he has never played before.
Having said that, the former Wolves player’s inexperience doesn’t excuse his lack of impact for much of the game or making costly mistakes in the final seconds.
For example, while the team as a whole must face responsibility for last night’s loss, it was the 26-year-old who was awarded the equalizer for a foul on Amad Diallo, who intercepted His lazy back pass.
Then, less than two minutes later, he failed to turn around and save the Ivorian’s winning shot from the baseline, even though he appeared to have time to do so.
Not surprisingly, such a display saw GIVEMESPORT’s Kerrie Jacobs-Bryant Award He received a score of 4/10, which seems very fair considering his mistakes.
However, while Nunez turned a mediocre performance into a disastrous one in the final five minutes, one of his team-mates was poor throughout the game and cannot start again for City.
This city is worse than Nunes
Now, as we said before, the home side had a less than stellar performance on the field last night, but the worst was undoubtedly Kyle Walker.
The Manchester City captain has been struggling for some time, but yesterday’s performance was particularly bad.
The former Tottenham Hotspur star was ineffective offensively and, like Nunes, was a disaster defensively, breaking into the box to set up Diallo’s winning goal.
In fact, the most notable thing he did in the game was fake a head injury during a challenge with Rasmus Hoylund, an incident that Roy Keane said must have been caused by him . Feeling ’embarrassed’ after game.
This performance left Jacobs-Bryant equally unmoved because she awarded British 4/10 Match Rating full-time job and doubled down on the “embarrassing” nature of the Hoylund incident.
However, when we look at his game statistics, it’s fair to say that a 4/10 rating is far too generous.
For example, in his 96 minutes of actionThe Sheffield-born defender has an expected assist number of 0.03, only completed 1 block, 1 interception and 1 clearance. He lost 50% of ground duels, conceded the ball 20 times, and had a passing accuracy of only 76. %, 9 turnovers in 11 long passes, and 50% of dribbling failed.
Walker’s Numbers Game | |
|---|---|
minute | 96′ |
expected assists | 0.03 |
Building Blocks | 1 |
Tackle | 1 |
customs clearance | 1 |
Ground duel (win) | 4(2) |
lose property | 20 |
Passing accuracy | 55/72 (76%) |
Long pass (accurate) | 11(2) |
lens | 0 |
Dribbling (successful) | 2(1) |
Ultimately, while the entire City squad struggled against Manchester United yesterday, Nunes, and Walker in particular, were the worst of the worst, and while the Brazilian may have to keep his place in the team, But Pep must drop the Englishman.
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