Should Dream Team bosses be concerned about Manchester City’s creaking form?

HOW rapidly things tin alteration successful the satellite of Dream Team.

Prior to Gameweek 10, Manchester City were imperious Premier League leaders and undefeated successful the Champions League.

Suddenly, aft consecutive defeats to Tottenham, Bournemouth and Sporting CP, they're successful crisis.

Pep Guardiola's broadside aren't genuinely successful situation of course; their 2-1 nonaccomplishment to the Cherries ended the fourth-longest unbeaten streak successful Premier League past and the decorated tactician volition inactive consciousness assured of a spot successful the Champions League knockout signifier successful the caller year.

But everything is comparative to the standards expected of the nine successful question and the quality of City's Gameweek 10 disappointments volition person unnerved much than a fewer Dream Team managers.

For starters, Erling Haaland (£8.9m) has been usurped astatine the apical of the rankings by Mohamed Salah (£7.3m).

The Norwegian No9's tally of 150 points remains hugely awesome and he's inactive comfortably the apical goalscorer successful each competitions (14) but gaffers who captained him successful Gameweek 10 person been near unsatisfied.

Haaland fto alert with plentifulness of shots against Bournemouth and Sporting but failed to find the nett with immoderate of them, including a missed punishment successful the Portuguese superior connected Tuesday night.

As a result, helium notched conscionable six points from the 2 outings portion Liverpool's Egyptian leader banked 22 points astatine the disbursal of Brighton and Bayer Leverkusen to assertion apical spot.

Those who captained Salah implicit Haaland person benefited from a immense plaything this week!

Elsewhere, Gameweek 10 was besides a nightmare for Rico Lewis (£4m).

The talented teen has been 1 of the champion value-for-money assets successful the crippled passim the archetypal 4th of the play but, with City having conceded six goals, helium mustered conscionable a azygous constituent crossed his 2 astir caller outings.

Lewis remains 4th successful the antiaircraft rankings connected 86 points but it's absorbing that he's presently among the 5 astir transferred-out players up of Gameweek 11 - a important chunk of gaffers person rapidly mislaid faith.

Josko Gvardiol (£4.8m) avoided a likewise damaging Gameweek arsenic it was the Croatia left-back who scored City's lone extremity astatine the Vitality Stadium.

Generally speaking, it was a dismal Gameweek for the defending champions but Phil Foden (£6m) managed to gain 16 points amid the chaos via a extremity and 4 bonus points - his resurgence is simply a insignificant constituent of optimism astatine least.

Dream Team bosses would beryllium much inclined to stay loyal to their Man City assets if it wasn't for a spate of troublesome injuries.

Guardiola half-prepared fans for these results erstwhile helium told reporters that helium had conscionable 13 players disposable aft his side's decision to Spurs successful the Carabao Cup successful Gameweek 9.

While that turned retired to beryllium an exaggeration, there's nary uncertainty the Citizens are feeling the interaction of their absentees astatine present.

It's a good established inclination by present that City's results dip erstwhile Ballon d'Or victor Rodri (£4m) is unavailable.

On the positive side, Kevin De Bruyne (£6.3m) managed six minutes astatine the extremity against the Portuguese champions and whitethorn truthful play a much salient relation astatine Brighton this Saturday.

But hopes of a cleanable expanse successful Gameweek 11 look comparatively debased aft 19-year-old centre-back Jahmai Simpson-Pusey was fixed a baptism of occurrence by Sporting's hat-trick leader Viktor Gyokeres.

The Seagulls volition beryllium softly assured of their chances connected location ungraded having seen Guardiola's men springiness up a drawstring of large chances successful caller outings.

It's excessively soon to earnestly sermon whether Haaland inactive warrants a spot successful a competitory Dream Team XI arsenic helium took Sparta Prague and Southampton for a combined 31 points arsenic precocious arsenic precocious October but different blank this play would acceptable a feline among the pigeons.

Dream Team managers person seldom had to interest astir the viability of Man City players successful narration to the club's signifier successful caller years but 3 defeats connected the rotation has acceptable tongues wagging.

It volition beryllium absorbing to spot to what grade gaffers wantonness the likes of Haaland, Lewis and Gvardiol during the planetary interruption if Gameweek 11 besides ends badly.