“The City of now all face it with more courage because they pass the ball around pointlessly, they always play the same game“. Fabio Capello from the Sky Sport studios he launches broadsides at Manchester City of Guardiola in crisis of results and identity. The Citizens lost to a solid team Juve still sending clear signals of uneasiness: “Haaland did not receive a cross. Do you sometimes want to throw this striker well? Do you want to try doing something different? They had players with more quality who dribbled, now they are flat. They are waiting to recover the ball and start on the counterattack. City are slow in their minds and in their play, they no longer have the speed they had before. There are no players who make the difference, they don’t have the anger and physicality that put their opponents in difficulty. Before they lost the ball and won it back immediately, now that’s no longer the case“.
Capello’s ruthless analysis of Guardiola and City
Capello’s analysis is then carried out again more ruthless: “Maybe after all these years they can’t stand Guardiola anymore because at a certain point Pep no longer has anything to give him again. I repeat, Haaland did not receive a cross: they don’t know how to trigger it. They no longer have the dynamism they once had. The only one who jumps the man is Doku but then he doesn’t know what to do. De Bruyne is no longer the same, Foden must be reinserted at the center of the game. The situation is serious and I honestly don’t know what to advise Pep to get out of it“. concludes Capello.
