Manchester City made me really worried about them for once during the Luton game. Because when I saw Luton scoring first it was quite surprising to me. I know how their condition is in the league these days. But they played against one of the easiest teams to beat. They won the game maybe but it should have been much more comfortable than that.
Haaland wasn't even in the squad today by the way. I saw it like he was injured but this wasn't much convincing to me. Maybe Guardiola just didn't want to bring him to Luton. But there was no need for him to win the game of course. Alvarez filled his place nicely.
I think, this injuries is really affecting the Manchester city players and it has made them to look small to some small teams they used to defeat with many goals with so much strength through out the match. Many people nearly lose hope in this match when Luton Town gain access to Manchester city goalpost to scored first goal to lead the match1-0 for the favour of Luton Town in the first half. But despite Erling Haaland was not among the players, they where able to succeed to defeated Luton Town 1-2 in the second half to prove to people that they will soon return back to the first position in the premier league table when their potential strikers recover from their injuries.
It gives very big impact to the club. I remind you that if manchester city has de bruyne who has been also working as the most creative attacking midfielder owned by manchester city. He was also contributing a lot and this is also the main reason he had been called as king of assist. Missing him pretty much the same as the club was missing someone who has been also consistently contributing most of the assists for the club. Manchester city can only rely upon some players like rodri.
As you can see that how manchester city was always struggling in any matches. Even city needs late game to score and make its come back. Manchester city was playing so badly without having some important players like de bruyne.
Playing without him is just a setback for the club. I expect city to face another difficult match soon as the club needs to put lots of efforts to beat the weak club like luton.