Champions League game at home against Feyenoord and a score of 3-0 at the start of the second half. It looked like Manchester City would finally be able to get back into the win column after five games, but football is treacherous…
In the last twenty minutes of the game, the Dutch team sought a 3-3 draw and scored Guardiola goes six matches without winning for the first time in his sporting career, whether as a player or coach.
For fans and the English press, basically no one can be redeemed by the performance of the Manchester City in the second half, with the main target being defender Josko Gvardiol, responsible for errors in two of the three goals.
— For every great goal that Gvardiol scores, he gives his opponents two goals with ridiculous mistakes. An 80 million defender who doesn’t know how to defend — said a fan to the BBC.
— When you’re winning 3-0, you can’t give chances like these to the opponent with stupid mistakes like this from Gvardiol — said former player and now commentator Alan Shearer about Feyenoord’s first goal.
With the advantage, Gvardiol found himself in a complicated situation in the middle and tried to pass the ball, but only ballooned it towards his own goal. Anis Hadj Moussa took advantage, dribbled past Ederson and pushed into the empty goal to start the reaction.
Feyenoord’s second goal also came from a mistake by Gvardiol. With the ball calmly controlled, the Croatian tried a risky pass to Matheus Nunes in the middle of two markers. The Portuguese-born Brazilian was disarmed and the Dutch dominated the ball until Santiago Giménez scored the second goal.
— It was Gvardiol’s pass that invited Feyenoord again — he criticized Shearer again after the second goal.
— It was a comical mistake by Gvardiol that allowed Feyenoord to enter the game and they capitalized. Gvardiol then gave the ball for the second goal — said Andros Townsend on BBC radio.
There were those who chose not to trumpet Gvardiol at the moment, but to remember who the Croatian will have to defend against when City returns to the field, facing Liverpool on Sunday (1st), at 1 pm (Brasília time).
— I can’t wait to see Salah against Gvardiol on Sunday — said a fan identified as Ed to the BBC.
Guardiola: ‘We are fragile’
After the match, Guardiola spoke to the broadcasters who held the rights and lamented the loss of the opportunity to break City’s bad run.
— We lost several games recently, we are fragile. We need a win and this game would be good to boost confidence. We played at a good level, but the first time something happened we had problems. I don’t know if it’s mental. The first goal couldn’t happen and neither could the second. We played a good game, but at this level we can’t give them away.
