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Pep Guardiola stunned Paul Merson by leaving Jack Grealish on the Man City bench until late and not hauling off one of his “worst players” in Matheus Nunes.over Nottingham Forest he wasn’t introduced until the 86th minute, and even then it came at the: “Yeah he’s on for Kevin De Bruyne. I can’t believe Nunes is still on this football pitch. He’s been one of the worst players on the pitch in my opinion, he should have been brought off a long time ago.
“He’s on the pitch still and Grealish comes on for Kevin De Bruyne… this is their season in the palm of their hand here now.”City’s struggles to find an able back-up for Rodri are well-documented after the failed Kalvin Phillips experiment, and now the Ballon d’Or winner is out injured long-term it is really harming them.
Join the Football Insider WhatsApp channel to get all our exclusives and the breaking transfer news FIRST. The win in midweek snapped a run of seven games without one and fans would have hoped normal service would resume thereafter, but the title defence is looking increasingly beleaguered and the manager’s selections aren’t showing clear signs of a recovery plan.Both Grealish and De Bruyne have been short of their best for at least a year with injuries and lack of starts a feature.
It’s hard to escape the view that in the current circumstances the pair would be central characters in a revival, but Guardiola doesn’t seem to be as certain and his stance is backfiring more often than not.or the infamously-obsessive Catalan overthinking his response to an historically bad run remains to be seen, but he needs to figure things out fast.
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