Finally Manchester City can be ranked fifth in the standings. Indeed, there are still many matches available and Pep Gaurdiola will rearrange his tactics. As for the trophy, it is certain that this season Manchester City is difficult to defend. Manchester City remains a great club but this decline indicates that Manchester City players are losing confidence. Remember Gundogan, Kevin de Bruyne, Walker, Akanji, Axe, Covacic, and Bernando Silva will undergo a decline in form as they age.
It's not that the players are losing form because they are getting older, City are going through a difficult time, probably the most difficult time since Guardiola took over City. I believe they can get out of this losing streak, but it seems to have been longer than I thought, and now we just have to wait for City to start winning because betting on them now and hoping that the crisis has passed is kind of risky, because in addition to the injuries to the players, those who are in the game are in a difficult emotional state.
This kind of losing streaks that Manchester city are currently experiencing are mostly caused by aging of squad members. The same way it is in animals and machines, age also affects humans. The more older the people the less of their productivity. Even Machines, the older it gets it will depreciates. This is what Manchester city squad are currently experiencing, as a result of the ages of the senior squad members, you notice that they are now having frequent injuries. And even whey they are fit, their performance in the field is not the same again, as before. They can't run as fast as they usually do in the past.
Their ability to run round the field as before is no longer there. Not that pep Guardiola has run out of tactics, no that's not the case. It's simply because people that are supposed to implement those ideologies, don't have the capacity to do so anymore. That's why the club has continued their losing streak. Manchester city players were not known for injuries in the last 4 to 5 years s ago, but recently they are now experiencing frequent injuries. That's a clear sign of an aging squad.