I see the loss of the figure of Kevin De Bruyne greatly affecting the performance of the Manchester City team, their front line is not well organized and there is not enough supply of balls for strikers, this is dangerous for Man City in the next match because they will lose Kevin De Bruyne who is absent for 6 months due to injury.
You are right, so far Kevin De Bruyne role has been very important in building Manchester City's attack. He has been likened to the brain of an attacker who can read the opponent's gap, but now Manchester City losing him for several months is a bad sign. In my opinion, it is very difficult to replace the role of Kevin De Bruyne, therefore Pep Guardiola must think hard to find other options. Especially after losing Gundogan when he was still at Manchester City he could replace Kevin De Bruyne.
I dont know what player can currently replace him on that position with the similar quality. He has been the brains behind a lot of attacks of Man City in the previous season and without him this is gonna cause problems. We seen already against Sevilla that there were many problems in getting that direct ball for the goal.
Judging by the kind of quality Kelvin De Bruyne brings to the Manchester City side whenever he's playing, there's no doubt that his creativity in the attacking of Manchester City wouldn't be greatly missed.
Against Sevilla yesterday, City struggled to create goalscoring chances and that's because De Bruyne wasn't on the pitch. Pep Guardiola I know isn't a novice to this kind of issues and I know he'll find the perfect style that'll keep his City side going once again
De Bruyne is underated in Manchester City and when I see the comparison and his contribution been toyed and argued, it shows many don't like him or maybe it was because his a Midfielder instead of a winger or striker but the fact that he was nominated for UEFA mens player of the year along side with Messi and Haaland shows that the guy is goated, his contributions and assists last year was a top notch, only sallah comes close to what he did but he had 4 ahead of Sallah, he was the key to their success in Premier League.
Manchester City felt his absence yesterday and I will repeat it again that it was the reason why Haaland suffer and was running throughout in the match they had with Sevilla in Super Cup, we saw how he contributed 2 assists in a match out of the what Haaland scored in most of their matches and the reason why Messi is always ranked ahead of Ronaldo is because of the assists and goals he score, if De Bruyne is a striker, he would have done more than what we have seen in Manchester CIty. I'm waiting for him to recover back to match to take his place in assists ranking.