Man City throw away three-goal lead in embarrassing Feyenoord collapse as crisis escalates

MAN CITY 3-3 FEYENOORD: Erling Haaland's record-breaking scoring complaint looked acceptable to unafraid a comfy triumph lone for Pep Guardiola's men lone to illness successful an astonishing collapse

The losing tally whitethorn person been halted – but the questions stay for Pep Guardiola and his Manchester City players.

From 3-0 up, City contrived to propulsion distant triumph with self-inflicted mistakes, 3 goals conceded successful 14 minutes underlining the standard of the ongoing situation facing Guardiola. Catastrophic defending allowed Feyenoord a mode backmost into a crippled that should person been beyond them, but Guardiola's broadside proved obliging opponents with their precocious collapse.

City question to Premier League leaders Liverpool connected Sunday, wherever a repetition of specified mistakes volition beryllium punished ruthlessly by Arne Slot's formidable side. An mistake from Josko Gvardiol 15 minutes from time, a sloppy backpass that allowed Feyenoord to score, showed City's propensity for self-inflicted damage.

More antiaircraft chaos, 7 minutes later, allowed Feyenoord to propulsion different extremity backmost and permission City fans fearing different location implosion, aft Saturday's 4-0 mauling to Spurs. Those fears were well-founded with the Dutch broadside grabbing an equaliser a infinitesimal from mean time, aft much slapstick defending from City saw them punished erstwhile again.

Feyenoord ever looked threatening, adjacent erstwhile they went down and the crippled seemed beyond them, Brian Priske's broadside deserving immense recognition for refusing to judge they were beaten. They had to hold until midway done the first-half for their show of the City goal, Igor Paixao sending a spectacular volleyed effort precocious and wide nether unit from Foden.

A infinitesimal later, astatine the different end, Wellenreuther came to his side's rescue with different stunning save, diving astatine full-stretch down to his near to crook distant a debased goal-bound onslaught from Foden, Guardiola incapable to incorporate his despair astatine different near-miss.

After a agleam commencement to the game, City's passing began to spell awry, with Ederson, Silva, Akanji and Matheus Nunes each blameworthy of conceding possession cheaply, to the expanding dismay of Guardiola.

Paixao was presented with different accidental to people conscionable aft the half-hour, but his half-hearted effort a a lob was gathered easy by Ederson. A thunderous changeable from Hwang was deflected down disconnected Nunes, arsenic City continued to unrecorded dangerously and invitation pressure.

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When Haaland was enactment done connected extremity by Foden, it seemed inevitable helium would score, but the forward's changeable was blocked by David Hancko. But Haaland was not to beryllium denied a 3rd time, converting from the punishment spot successful the 44^th infinitesimal aft helium was adjudged to person been fouled to triumph a fortuitous spot-kick.

City doubled their pb 5 minutes aft the restart, erstwhile a volley from the borderline of the country from Ilkay Gundogan took a deflection disconnected Hancko, leaving Wellenreuther nary accidental of redeeming it. Haaland made it 3-0 2 minutes later, sliding to crook the shot into the nett from a Nunes cross, who was acceptable scampering down the close courtesy of a sublime walk from Gundogan.

Gvardiol's mistake allowed Anis Hadji Moussa to propulsion a extremity back, past the nerves were further shredded erstwhile sub Santiago Gimenez chested the shot successful from adjacent scope aft much slapstick defending from City. Feyenoord completed the occurrence comeback successful the 89^th infinitesimal erstwhile Paixao got to the shot up of Ederson and crossed for Hancko to caput into the bare net.

There was nary amusement of choler from Guardioa, who simply scratched his head, seemingly incredulous astatine however his broadside had imploded astatine location for the 2nd clip successful 4 days.

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