Topic: UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Season - page 25. (Read 69390 times)

With the way they're performing, one would think the team is jinxed. Every team they come across would want to take advantage of their poor form cause this is the only period they can try to beat Manchester City, i think Pep Guardiola is going through lots lately cause this is unlike him, even last season when they had injured players, they still managed to put heads together and get things kicking again but i don't think they're recover soon cause the numerous defeat have affected them so bad and could lead to a very poor season, infact this could be Pep's last season with City and if he leaves i hope a similar situation that happened to their neighbours who where the previous giants of their league doesn't happen to City. Their next games in both their league and international competitions are tough ones and Pep better figure out how to solve the problem causing their present situation else they'll get similar results again which would be too bad for the team.

The longer Manchester City can find a solution to their current problems the likelihood of the problem continuing and becoming very hard to solve. I think pep is being stubborn here and he probably thinks that it's just another bad day in the office, I believe it's time he looks at his strategy and see where the problem is coming from.
Just like many I thought the problem was from one player Rodri but looking at it critically I don't think that's the problem and even if Rodri was in this team same thing would be happening.

We have seen the like of Jose when their tactics wasn't working anymore and the slipped out of relevance. Pep should be wise to look at his tactics and probably change somethings there.

I'm very surprised to see Aston Villa can reach top 5 rank, I'm sure that people also underestimated Aston Villa because they're new in Champions League and they don't have many star players.

Aston Villa isn't lucky here because their opponents were strong like Bayern Munich, Juventus, Bologna, Club Brugge and Leipzig.

Many people said it's all due to new format, but if this season they use the old format, I don't think Manchester City will reach top 2 rank in group stage, because their performance sucks.

Liverpool is no longer in doubt but I have to appreciate the performance of Arsenal and Aston Villa who managed to amaze in the last 6 matches. Both teams clearly made the Champions League successfully dominated by English teams. Unfortunately for Man City there is not much that can be considered positive because it is indeed in the most difficult situation to rise. The citizen poor performance will continue, Pep Guardiola strategy is no longer special and his opponents know how to overcome it.

This bad performance with Manchester City won't end, and I continue to wonder what Guardiola's issue is and why they can't win games. Manchester City starts with the players everybody thinks will win the game since Juventus's inconsistent play this season. However, we cannot claim that Manchester City's poor games are a result of their injured players because Juventus scored two goals and played well on defense despite having the same number of injured players. Manchester City's performance didn't seem like that of a squad that had won the Premier League title for back-to-back seasons because they lacked the experience to score goals.

However, I'm sure PSG and Club Brugge won't take it easily against Manchester City because that's their chance to move on to the next round, mostly PSG, who are currently in an eliminating position, I hope that this phase shouldn't be the end of Manchester City's in the Champions League this season. If they lose their next two games, they will be eliminated without getting a chance in the play-offs.

After the 6th game was completed, 3 of the 4 teams representing the Premier League were in the top 8, Liverpool were still firmly at the top of the standings with perfect points, Arsenal and Aston Villa both collected 13 points. Barcelona is the only La Liga representative who managed to enter the top 8 positions.
The surprise came from Brest and Lille, both teams managed to enter the top 8 positions. Positions 3 to 8 are competing closely with the same points, only different goal aggregates. Barcelona is slightly safer and needs 1 more point from the remaining 2 matches against Benfica and Atalanta. The 7th match will be very decisive for many teams, their chances depend on their performance in the remaining 2 matches.

Seriously, Barcelona really tried their best in winning against Dortmund. At first, I gave Barcelona a win, but I almost gave up in that game because I was thinking they would not win the match until the end of the game. I waited till 90 minutes of that match before my mind got rest because both of them dominated the match, and that was what made it more interesting and also difficult to figure out who would win the match.

Barcelona's is now in the 2nd spot in the table. I hope they will continue winning their matches, even though I know that it won’t be an easy task for them to do. Liverpool is the top club right now, and we can see how good they are, so let's not conclude yet; there are still more matches to play. 

This is terrible statistics of a very weak club that deserves to be in a relegation zone in domestic league. It's not doubtful that if it is not stats from Manchester City, people by don't know about name of the club, will say this club will be relegated at the season ending.

Pep Guardiola is facing with a biggest crisis and challenge in his coach career because I remember that he has never faced with same serious crisis in either Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Manchester City. He does not need to solve this crisis well to be recognized as one of best and most successful coaches in history. He is already in that list of best ever coaches in history, and naturally all coaches will have terrible times with which they can be sacked.

Gundogan used to be Manchester City captain and he was an important player in season they won three titles include Champions League. His return this time is terrible, because he is older and become slower and weaker physically. Walker is facing with ageing problems like Gundogan but Haaland has other issues. His playing style is easy to guessed and he can be blocked by opponent defenders and in the summer, he was not upgraded his playing style too much for this season.

It seems to be so, because City only 1 win in 10 matches and only 2 draws with 7 defeats, so there is no change in the trend to get out of the crisis in City. Apparently Guardiola should have left a couple of years ago, when Manchester City was at its peak and maybe City would not have had such a slump, but now you can see that the players are tired of him, just like United players did not want to play in the last season Ten Hag, another reason why such good players like Gundogan, Haaland, Walker do not want to play I do not know.
Juventus can now consider Manchester City a specialist because since 2000 Juventus have not had a single defeat by Manchester City, which is a great achievement and in general Juventus have only lost 2 games out of 14 to English teams.

Pep Guardiola is certainly currently in a difficult situation and it is true that since Rodri's injury, Manchester City has experienced a change in performance, but in my personal opinion, Pep actually has to be able to overcome all of this because if you look at Manchester City's mainstay players, of course there are still a lot of them and Pep should be able to make a good strategy to make a good strategy so that Manchester City consistently wins in every match.
Indeed, if Manchester City were left alone, it would certainly be very dangerous if left like this and of course Manchester City fans would also be very afraid if Manchester City's performance continued to decline.

Yes, of course the match between Juventus and Manchester City that took place was certainly very disappointing for Manchester City fans because Manchester City was defeated at home by Juventus, of course this was very embarrassing for Manchester City. and I saw that in that match Manchester City actually had a good chance, but unfortunately the Manchester City players were not able to take advantage of the opportunity well, for example, like Haaland, he was not able to complete the opportunity well in front of goal.

Honestly, in this match I lost when betting and of course I thought Manchester City would rise at home but in fact it was very disappointing. Yes, now Juventus must be happy because they have successfully beaten Manchester City at Manchester City's home ground and won 3 points. Yes, currently one of the best ways to make Manchester City good and revive is of course to bring in players like Rodri, but yes, I hope Rodri recovers quickly and returns to defend Manchester City.

No one is concerned about who played better but rather who won the game so playing well and not being able to score is bad and losing in the end is very frustrating for Manchester City and their fans, we all thought they are over the series of losses but it seems it is not the end of it as we thought. They need to strengthen the team more because when players get injured they seem to suffer a lot and that’s just what they are going through right now.

Can they beat PSG? I don’t think they can but we can’t predict that just yet it will be an interesting game and if Manchester City wants to qualify for the next round they need to win their remaining matches.

It’s really bad for the fans but I like how they are experiencing this because they thought they are the best and can never experience this bad game runs. I told a City fan last season that what Chelsea and Manchester United are going through can happen to them too but he replied that it can never happen to them when they have Guardiola in charge so I am more than happy that it is happening with  Guardiola in charge.

You seem to dislike Manchester City a lot because you’re already seeing them lose all their games and draw to Club Brugge. Every big team should suffer once in a while, Madrid suffers it sometimes, Barca did too, Chelsea, Arsenal and Juventus also did so I don’t see why Manchester City shouldn’t suffer too.

I was afraid to bet on the number of goals and the fact that both teams will score, but I decided not to risk it and just bet on the victory of Barcelona and the odds for the victory were 2.06 and this is quite good I think for a match involving Barcelona. In addition, I think no one expected that Ferran Torres will suddenly do a double, because he just recently returned from injury and his game was not very impressive in previous matches, but Yamal did his job and his scoring pass to Ferran brought Barcelona the victory. As usual Rafinha was stable and Dani Olmo stood out. Of course it is not very happy that Bracelona concede a lot, but as long as Yamal, Rafinha and Olmo play, Barcelona will score too.
Now Barcelona are definitely in the playoffs and have won 5 matches in a row.

It is not easy for a team to rise from its slump, that is what Manchester City is currently experiencing with all the bad results they have received so far of course it has an impact on the mentality of the players and to be able to rise will be very difficult and takes time.

If we look at it as a whole I think there is nothing wrong with the Manchester City team, they are still with the same coach and players but indeed in football there are some things that cannot be predicted with certainty and there are some things that happen beyond control like what Manchester City is experiencing now.

I think everything is over for Manchester City in the Champions League this season, their percentage to qualify is very small and indeed they should only focus on the PL and Pep Guardiola returns to fix this team so that they can get out of the problems they are experiencing.

It seems Manchester City is dead and buried, because there's no hope for their resurrection anymore. I thought that their previous victory was a step towards picking form, neither did I know that it was just a compensation by nature to have a win after several consecutive losses. Pep should change his game pattern, because it's outdated and most clubs have known how to outsmart them on the pitch.

Juventus is not that good even if we consider that it has improved comparing to the previous seasons but they remain weaker than top English Premier League teams. Especially that Manchester City used to be unstoppable but right now things are very bad and I suppose this team will not recover before the end of the season and the winter break. Guardiola is in a stressful situation and he has to figure out how to get out from this negative circle. 8 points after 6 rounds is something out of expectations for such team.

In the end, things like this are not as easy as one might think. Manchester City's performance is not stable even in yesterday's match, we must be aware that Manchestwr City's current condition is still not fine and not even much different from PSG now, so it would be a little silly for me if this match was considered a victory for Manchester City, even though yesterday they also had to lose with a score that was not very good.

Pep still has to make a lot of alternative schemes at this time especially when they are still faced with the consistency of the attack pattern, especially finishing which is always deadlocked because the driving force in midfield is still unstable and Haaland is always closely guarded.

The game was good, their scheme was also very good but in the end it didn't work well when their finishing was not as expected. So Pep must try more in the remaining matches they have.

I didn't see them losing to Juventus or Brighton either. Not to mention PSG is doing better domestically so their mentality can be different too. I can't believe I say this but it's hard to see City become the favorite in their next matches. Maybe the January transfer window will change this, but until then I'd probably bet more on them drawing or losing their next games regardless of the opponent they're facing. Another way to improve is probably to change the way they play, but it's hard to imagine Guardiola doing that. He's going to keep forcing Gundogan and Walker again and again, isn't he?

Obviously your team did not win so I can understand the frustration bro. Buy how did you expect Manchester City to win Juventus that have not lost a league match this season even in their home? Manchester have not been too good lately and if you remember, they.were unable to win Feyenood at Etihad which should show you that their problem is not over yet. The best they could have aimed for with Juventus was a draw. Unfortunately,  even the draw did not happen which shows that Manchester have really gotten so bad.

Juventus is going through a tough time just like Manchester City but they've been maintaining a draw results than losing. Man City losing to Juventus is a clear indication that things have gone extremely bad for Pep and his boys. Every club passes through tough times but Manchester City own is getting beyond expectation.

In the last decade, I can't remember any big team that played ten consecutive matches and won only one, draw two and lost the remaining seven. Five points from ten matches is a very poor stats for Manchester City to be realistic. Something really seems weird about this Man city team because even the morale is not longer there at all. They played as if they were afraid to score.

Barcelona is lucky in this game, the reason why I said Barcelona is lucky us is because they didn't win as people were expecting from them, the game was very tough because Dortmund played well and didn't want Barcelona to win them, If not for Ferran Torres that come from bench and score two goals Barcelona will not win the match because Lewandowski can not score and Dortmund also miss some chances if not Barcelona will concede more than 3 goals in the match, Barcelona got the 3 points they want and that is good.


Did you think that Rodri is Manchester City's problem? For me no, Rodri's absence is not Manchester City's problem because when Rodri was injured Manchester City won some matches and even defeated Chelsea without Rodri, Manchester City's problem now is not Rodri is all team and I think Manchester City player's lack of winning Mentality that they have before, last season Pep Guardiola used to bench Rodri in some matches and they win so I don't think Rodri absent is the problem and I will never believe that Rodri absent is the problem.