Pep Guardiola told biggest problem in Man City dressing room ahead of Liverpool fixture

Manchester City look a important lucifer against Liverpool successful the Premier League connected Sunday, days aft capitulating to propulsion distant 3 points successful the Champions League against Feyenoord

Manchester City are stuck successful a rut astatine contiguous due to the fact that galore of their players simply aren’t acceptable capable to transportation retired Pep Guardiola’s orders, according to Danny Murphy.

City’s winless tally was extended to six matches connected Tuesday aft they surrendered a commanding 3-0 lead astatine location to Feyenoord. Two goals from Erling Haaland and 1 from Ilkay Gundogan had them successful power earlier they self-destructed and conceded 3 times successful the last 15 minutes to gully 3-3 successful the Champions League.

The lucifer was afloat of worrying performances, with the usually reliable Ederson making silly mistakes and players not concentrating oregon tracking backmost to defend. City present look a crunch lucifer against rubric rivals Liverpool astatine Anfield connected Sunday, with their opponents successful wholly contrasting signifier after beating Real Madrid.

Guardiola has a batch to code successful the coming days, knowing a triumph for Liverpool this play would widen their pb implicit City astatine the apical of the Premier League to 11 points. City person been hampered by injuries precocious and erstwhile Liverpool midfielder Murphy believes their deficiency of physicality is simply a bigger occupation than immoderate intelligence one.

Asked connected BBC’s Champions League highlights programme if City’s assurance had gone, Murphy replied: “It tin hap to a team. It starts with a fewer individuals and spreads a small bit. But I bash deliberation their bigger occupation is not truthful overmuch the confidence, it is the physicality of them. They don’t person that aforesaid tenacity that we speech astir them successful the press, that energy, that relentlessness that we’ve seen City teams have.

“And I’m not saying it’s each astir their deficiency of effort. It’s much that immoderate of them aren’t physically acceptable due to the fact that they’ve been retired a portion and immoderate of them person conscionable switched off. And erstwhile you’re not physically astatine it, particularly astatine elite football, you get recovered out.”

Another erstwhile Premier League midfielder, Thomas Hitzlsperger, thinks that Guardiola’s playing benignant is not helping things. “That’s been Pep’s crippled throughout: property precocious up, triumph the shot backmost and past person control,” helium said.

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“I don’t deliberation they’re susceptible of changing their benignant completely. I deliberation this is the biggest task he’s got close now. It’s their rule – enactment precocious up and trim the abstraction for them (the opposition), conscionable marque definite you triumph the shot back. In this crippled they’re 3-0 up and reasoning ‘tonight’s the nighttime erstwhile we alteration that atrocious tally of signifier and results’, but again it’s not happening.”

The accent of the occupation appeared to beryllium getting to Guardiola connected Tuesday, with a chopped connected his chemoreceptor and scratches connected his caput drafting attention. He was forced to release a connection explaining himself aft drafting disapproval for appearing to marque airy of aforesaid harm.

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