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What are you trying to say here mate? Manchester City played excellently yesterday and the problem was not even from their attack but the defense was terrible which was the reason for their defeat. When everybody is healthy, City was not doing extremely badly but things took another direction now.
Man City were very active in attacking, especially Doku who was very dominant in penetrating the opponent's defense area which made Liverpool players have to work hard to prevent conceding. In my opinion, the midfielders were less active in building attacks, resulting in them only being able to pass from foot to foot, while Liverpool chose to play long passes to prevent Man City from maintaining their game rhythm.
Man City defense area is still very weak, Guardiola needs to pay attention to this position so that he can continue to maintain his position to qualify for the UCL next season.
Although their defence was very dilapidated in the match but the absence of haaland also had an impact on the sharpness of their attacking line, throughout the match their only relied on the two wings to dismantle liverpool defence, but when the ball was passed into the middle it was foden who became the main striker unable to complete existing opportunities well and I think that it would be different if haaland was the main striker, But apart from that, manchester city overall play has improved although guardiola does have to evaluate their defence, especially since their defensive problems are quite complex including lack of organisation, inconsistency and also poor chemistry between players after Stones and Akanji were injured.