I'm surprised to see that Manchester City could play up to 70 minutes without scoring a goal against Brentford. Manchester City dominated Brentford with 70% ball possession and a 25-goal attempt against Brentford, but managed to score a goal against Brentford last night. If Manchester City continues to find it difficult to score goals against their opponents, they will find it hard to catch up with Liverpool in the Premier League table.
It can be said that Mancity squandered too many opportunities in this match. Many times this season, Mancity completely dominated the game but could not "finish" the opponent, leading to an unfortunate loss of points. The match against Chelsea a few days ago is a typical example. One thing I'm quite curious about is that in a deadlocked match against Brentford, Pep did not let Kevin play even though his hamstring condition was insignificant and could play if needed.
Maybe Pep doesn't want to take risks, but ensuring a win against Brentford is also an important task on the way to defending the championship, because they previously drew against Chelsea. If they don't win, they will continue to be far behind by Arsenal and Liverpool. Fortunately, they still won 3 valuable points with Halaand's only goal.
There were no additional goals from Manchester City to win and get the full 3 points but instead they only got 1 point and interestingly this season Manchester City failed beat Chelsea in their 2 meetings.
Mancity's main striker - Halaand, always played not well when competing with the big guys in the Premier League. He showed an unbelievable lack of charm, this cannot be explained, but it also contributed to the unfortunate draw against Chelsea. If it weren't for Rodri's excellent performance in both matches against Chelsea, Mancity would probably have suffered two bitter defeats.