Manchester City without Kelvin De Bruyne and Rodri is an overhyped team. The absence of both players have had a negative impact on the team’s performance in the last three games including defeat to Arsenal this weekend which is the most recent lose they have conceded. Gabriel Martinelli’s goal was enough to give Arsenal a win. Arsenal will treasure this win, the team have worked hard to come this far, good work to Mikel Arteta, trusting the process is finally paying off.
I don't agree with this idea fully although there is some level of accuracy but then it's usually a team work, we still have the likes of haland who does the finishing after all said and done by de bruyne and rodri at the front lines, they are very valued players in Manchester city but the team cannot be said to be over hyped without them as the team tries their best even in their absence.
As in the case of Arsenal vs Manchester city, I don't think their absence was the main reason Manchester city lost that game, tho its effect was seen but then Manchester tried their possible best to balance the game throughout, as seen in the first half of the game where haland was seen trying to make way to get a goal but then arsenal was at alert enough not to allow them get a goal and arsenal is at their peak currently and playing from home.
All this were advantage they had which couldn't be underestimated as compared to Manchester city who was playing in the absence of two of their best but they were able to hold Arsenal down enough not to get more than a goal and Arsenal had leaser goal chances as did Manchester city so that game shouldn't be used to judge the strength of Manchester city and attaching it to the absence of those two players as Manchester city remains good with or without bruyne and rodri as proven in other games.