How Pep guardiola hasn't been able get his Acts together up till now still amazes me, for a defending champion who has consistently held that position for consecutive four seasons, now going for a losing spree for this long is really unbelievable. Watching the match yesterday against United, I think it's safe to say Pep guardiola has not yet been able to discover what exactly is affecting his teams overall performance in the last two months. He still believes the same tactics and pattern of play will eventually bring back his dominating style of play. Manchester united really didn't do much, they just had to go to Etihad and not come back Empty hand.
Much earlier it was blamed on the wave of injuries that the team was hit by and later on the absence of some other key players one of which is rodri who isn't still back but then gradually most of the key players are back and the team is almost complete except for rodri and he's been maintaining his usual technical approach that has gotten him the wins he's enjoyed all his years in city but at this point it's even feeling like even if Rodri comes back much may not change because they are in such a very pitiable state now and will hope to get salvage probably by a miracle or is it about that time Guardiola should consider calling it a quit as his experience and tactics put together is beginning to fail him.
Of course even if Rodri comes back, his impact wouldn't be felt that much, after all when Pep Guardiola was winning regularly even without Rodri in most games his absence wasn't felt that much, we are hearing about Rodri's absence because he is losing and Since he is losing, he definitely will find an excuse and the absence of Rodri is a solid argument for him. From the look of things, it will take Pep Guardiola towards the end of the first quarter of 2025 before he can come up with something new, because this particular situation isn't something he prepared for, so he doesn't know how to patch the leaking wings as things stands now.