Manchester City face Everton amidst a difficult period of form. The team has been struggling to create chances and score goals, leading to concerns about their title defense.
Ange Postecoglou , Pep Guardiola , Enzo Maresca and more talking to the mediaMan City captain Kyle Walker and Michael Brown explain how the festive fixtures in the Premier League are decided.We have gone well beyond the point where City's form was being debated in terms of whether it is a crisis or not. Everton at home, Leicester away and West Ham would normally be the kind of games City would sweep aside with ease.
All the excuses, the mitigating circumstances, are all legitimate. But they are the factors you explain Man City being in a battle for the title, for being ninth in the Champions League table. They do not explain the worst run of form in the top five leagues in Europe - that is not down to players being tired. If Rodri was healed by some Christmas miracle and played on Boxing Day, I don't think that would solve everything.
Perhaps the time to change a team is when you are winning, but no-one was suggesting Man City were about to collapse when they were top and unbeaten after nine league games. He has been talking to a lot of people about what is going on as he tries to work out the reasons for City's demise. Some reasons he knows, others he still doesn't.He will be thinking "I'm not going to be able to get us out of this" and needs the support of people close to him to push away those insecurities - and he has that.
"The start of last year, we had a tough start. Now we are seeing the benefit of working with the team for so long - we're not afraid of anybody. The fans could see flashes, it would be great when it clicked, and now we are having the season of our lives.
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