City are still very strong without KDB,after watching their game today against Northingham Forest,I now know where City's weakness is,and that is their holding midfielder,Rodri.City are completely a weak team without Rodri in their squad.After they sent him off for poaching a forest player,City looked absolutely a different team altogether,their possessions changed,they could no longer hold the ball like they did when Rodri was in the team,and I just knew he is their engine room.The person introduced could not do exactly Rodri's work,his absence was very obvious on the pitch.
It is true that they've not really faced a tough side this season,and the only teams that I see that will trouble them is Arsenal, Liverpool and Totthenham.Any other team apart from those four clubs cannot hold them.Arsenal will be facing Totthenham tomorow,and we will see how this encounter will go between the two North London clubs.
Without Kevin De Bruyne Pep Guardiola had to adjust his strategy. Last season Pep Guardiola often used a 3-4-3 formation, while this season he has used a 4-2-3-1 formation. This change in strategy allowed Alvarez to get a place in the main line-up where he was played as an attacking midfielder as well as a second striker. The adoption of this formation has certainly covered the gap in the absence of De Bruyne and Bernardo Silva, but so far Pep Guardiola's tactics have really proven to be good.
Today Manchester City played very well in the first half, but they tended to decline in the second half because Rodri was sent off due to a red card. Manchester City, which only had 10 players left on the pitch, tended to have to defend against Nottingham attacks, but in the end Pep Guardiola's team still maintained its winning streak.