He Manchester City added for the first time in the ‘Guardiola era’ its fourth consecutive defeat in an official match after losing 2-1 this Saturday against Brighton, a match that worsened the results crisis of a Pep who became the target of provocative chants of the local fans: “They’re going to fire you tomorrow!”
The citizens, weighed down by the losses of John Stones, Rodri Hernández, Jack Grealish, Ruben Dias and Oscar Bobb, functioned as a team in a first half settled in favor with a goal from Erling Haaland, but collapsed in the second with the successes of João Pedro and Matt O’Riley.
Thus, for the first time in a long time, the word ‘need’ flew over Manchester City, who arrived at the match against Brighton after completing a dark week with three consecutive defeats in three different competitions: they fell in the round of 16 of the Cup of England against Tottenham (2-1), in the Premier League against the combative Bournemouth (2-0) and in the Champions League against Sporting (4-1).
Falling for the fourth time was entering unknown territory for Guardiola’s City, who could not avoid the defeat of his team in a spectacular second half of a Champions League Brighton.
With the final whistle, the local stands focused on the Spanish coach with the chant “They’re going to fire you in the morning, they’re going to fire you in the morning!”which is normally used with coaches who are on the verge of dismissal, something very far from Guardiola’s situation at the moment.
After this result that could leave City five points behind Liverpool if they beat Aston Villa this Saturday, the coach assessed the need to return to a point from which to rebuild the team: “We have to reset our heads during the break and the players will return in shape. We will have to play every three days. In recent years we have won a lot, but we have not had so many injuries,” added the coach, who assessed that the match against Brighton was not bad at all.
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