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Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2024/2025
by
dezoel
on 24/02/2025, 18:52:21 UTC
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.
This is mainly why KDB will be leaving at the end of the season as well, and also why Jack Grealish, a 100 million euro transfer, will be gone at the end of the season probably too, to be fair both of them served the team a lot but they do not look like they are providing anything anymore. I have seen plenty of positions where City lost the ball, and KDB just walked back, and sometimes didn't even move, he only plays the offense part of the game and doesn't do anything on defense, you can't just accept that, you need players who could run back, who wants the ball back.

Pep will have a very tough time this off-season, he will have to rebuild almost the entire team, and because of that we are going to see some stuff changing, if they get anyone wrong, they will be in a very thin ice, so this summers moves will be VERY important for their future.