I wrote yesterday that Villa is not an easy opponent for Man City and now Villa are in third place in the standings... I thought that City would score, but Villa won with a minimum of one goal... It was a good match... Today it will be interesting to watch the game Spurs vs Hammers...
Judging from the statistics of Manchester City's match last night it was very different, they seemed to have lost their real game, maybe there were several factors, firstly they lost Kevin de Bruyne and secondly Rodri also didn't play because of card accumulation, this really made the game worse. Manchester City is declining, but behind Manchester City's defeat it is also proven that Aston Villa is currently really a team that the big six teams really need to be wary of.
It's been very long I watched a Manchester City side that plays football with less creativity like the Manchester City team that lost at Aston Villa last night. They played like a struggling average team with players that aren't capable creating chances and it made me begin to wonder about what was wrong with them because that's not how a typical Pep Guardiola's team plays. Jack Freakish didn't feature in the game because he picked his fifth yellow card of the season in their game against Tottenham Hotspur during the weekend and so was Rodrigo. Jeremy Doku's was unfit as well after he picked a knock in their last game and that's why Pep Guardiola played two natural defenders in the persons of John Stones and Manuel Akanji in the midfield position but unfortunately for him, his tactical approach didn't favour him last night as Leon Bailey's deflected shot was all Aston Villa needed to grab all three points from that game.
I think Kelvin De Bruyne's absence since he picked injury in at the start of the season has been the major reason why Manchester City aren't as effective as they were last season and now that the winter transfer window is almost here, Manchester City might consider signing another creative midfielder