Hi Koura – Before the start of Manchester City’s match against its guest, Feyenoord Rotterdam, in the fifth round of the European Champions League, the Opta network published its predictions regarding the odds of winning and losing, as it said that the chances of City winning were high, amounting to 73%, in light of the difference in level and experience between the two clubs and their benefit. City were the workers of the ground and the public, but the final result of the confrontation ended in a positive draw, so the expectations were wrong.
This is the fifth match in which Manchester City’s matches have ended, contrary to what Opta expected.
The specialized network expected City to win over Sporting Lisbon, but lost heavily, and now it expects it to easily win over Feyenoord, but draws.
In the English Premier League, I expected it to win over Tottenham, but it collapsed at home, and before that it lost to Brighton and Bournemouth after the network was nominating it to sweep them away.
The truth is that the network was not wrong in its expectations, even if they were exaggerated, but it focused on the theoretical side and not the field, especially after City’s strong start, which nominated it to repeat the achievement in 2023. However, the field revealed the true level of the team that does not deserve those expectations, especially after the successive injuries of a number of pillars. The players, led by midfielder Rodri, are the best player in the world, whose absence cost a lot.
In the face of coach Pep Guardiola’s inability to find solutions to the problems the team is suffering from due to absences, Opta’s expectations and possibilities have turned into mere illusions, or at best daydreams, which reality quickly turns into painful realities and sorrows that bleed the hearts of its fans and bring tears to their eyes, whatever their colours.
The modest performance presented by Manchester City in its recent matches confirms that its team has lost its physical and mental aptitude to face competitors, even of low calibre, and its coach has become unable to create a balance between the defense and attack lines, as evidenced by the fact that when the attack was on its day, it scored three goals against Feyenoord, but the defense He was absent and was unable to maintain his lead, so he collapsed, and with the collapse of City’s defenses, the expectations and possibilities of his victory turned into mere imaginary speculation.
