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It can be a very good match from Feyenoord because in other similar matches when they got 3 conceded goals first, they will mostly lose it. This come back can become one of greatest comebacks in history of Feyenoord and it recalls, at least with me, a comeback of Liverpool against AC Milan in a Champions League final match about twenty years ago.

Such comebacks barely happen but it happened with Manchester City, and in a time when they are in a big crisis in a last 7 years. This draw makes many things become worse for Manchester City in this period. It reminds me about Barcelona many years ago with Pep Guardiola and massive success with tiki-taka, then Spainish national team's golden era with 2 Euro, 1 World Cup titles, then they began to collapse with massive disappointment. It seems to start happening with Manchester City and this season possibly becomes the end for Manchester City's golden era with Pep.

Who was disappointed that Man City ended up with a draw? How unlucky this club is.

Imagine Man City already 3 goals ahead but they conceded 3 more goals, this is like an underdog team that is not in stability.

Their defence was so bad that several times the opponent's attack was passed and it became the 3rd goal, plus this is the only team that is relied on in parlay, instead this team brings to the abyss all bets and finally fails.

It looks like this picture is true, friend. Because Pep Guardiola was also interviewed about the bruises on his face. But unfortunately Pep Guardiola answered it quite vaguely and unclearly. He seemed to be saying that it was done by his own hands or something. And I think I'm a little worried about condition of Pep himself, who is definitely under a lot of pressure. Moreover, he usually always has extraordinary achievements. But the bad results that Man City continues to get will definitely be a hard blow for Pep, who doesn't seem to be used to all these results. But my concern goes beyond that. And hopefully what I'm thinking isn't real.

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Reference: https://www.footboom1.com/id/news/football/2108334-fans-concerned-as-guardiola-addresses-cuts-and-bruises-on-live-tv

With the sophisticated advancement of AI it's true that anything imagined is possible to surface in the internet space. However I had to do some more work about the image and found where it all started that led to the bruises. It was at the expression of his frustration he got to injure himself on the face as he scratches his head.

https://x.com/ESPNFC/status/1861546807248986577?t=Ou5bOi_KqYI-eTroq3bLMw&s=19

I had thought that football banter is mostly to the club fans alone but it's getting clearer as the sport advances that the players ain't left behind in throwing those banters among themselves through different expressions and signs, so am not surprised that Gabriel had to pulled out such stunt in reply to that of Gyokeres 

This is exactly the image I'm talking about, I'm actually as curious as you, I actually want to no what happened to Pep Guardiola because he did not fought with anybody on the field and the bruises did not look like something that happens unintentional because there is blood on his nose, perhaps those that listen to his interview after the match will have more knowledge or idea about it because I no that media will certainly ask him to explain what happened because from this image it looks very real, however it seems Pep Guardiola would be staying more two years after his contract in Manchester City.

With AI is getting more advanced, now I don't know what I see on my screen is true or not. People can use AI with scratch and blood effect, then we can see a scratch and blood effect on Pep's face.

I have watch a video where a robbery take over Lewandowski and Rodri's Ballon d'Or, while Messi paying money to FIFA. I also see a video where Ronaldo and Messi doing something together in many roles.



After Gabriel scored to Sporting Lisbon, he taunting Gyokeres with his iconic celebration, but this version he close his eyes. Probably an indirect way to say "Where's Gyokeres?"

In fact, Manchester City was very lucky because they were the first to score a goal against Feyenoord, but at that time Feyenoord really had a strong mentality which ultimately was able to play well until finally the 3 goals that Manchester City had scored were finally able to be answered by Feyenoord. Yes, I also didn't expect the result to be like that. But yes, what you say is true is that Manchester City's mentality is currently not strong enough and that is one of the reasons why Manchester City always loses in recent matches.

Yes, there are definitely a lot of people who lost when betting because there are certainly quite a few people who favored Manchester City in that match and I personally also failed in betting on that match. Yes, of course in the next match it will not be easy for Manchester City to be able to fight Liverpool in Laliga because Liverpool is of course currently performing well and what is certain is that Manchester City needs extra strength to be able to fight Liverpool. Yes, of course without that great midfielder (Rodri), Manchester City's performance would not be very good, but yes, I hope Rodri recovers quickly because I like his playing style. I think Liverpool will have great potential to win in the next match in Laliga.
but what I am most waiting for is the Manchester City match against Juventus, of course in that match Manchester City must win because if they don't win it will certainly make Manchester City fans disappointed because of course Manchester City fans want Manchester City to win and of course Manchester City fans ​​wants to see Manchester City win, not draw and lose.

Today, a highly competitive match will be held between Real Madrid and Liverpool, in this match Liverpool is much stronger than Real Madrid. Because Liverpool has reliable players whose performance is the best and smartest this season, and those who have bet on this match have bet the most on Liverpool.
Because Real Madrid is 21st in the points table and Liverpool is 3rd, Mohamed Salah is performing the best this season and Liverpool's defenders are defending their goalposts. Considering various aspects, I have bet on Liverpool.

Pep Gardiola was so fucking frustrated with that match result than every other game that they have lost points to this season. Like I could feel his emotions rising with how he was expressing and demonstrating all through the second half when his team starting conceding those goals. I mean the City defense was so disappointing and weak having to concede 3 goals in less than 15 minutes from Feyenoord was the height of it in all lost games.


I am guessing this is the image you're referring to. I was wondering how come about those bruises too when I first saw it last night on ESPN. Could this image really be truth?

I quite understand your disappointment, friend, because usually PSG always manages to score goals. But you have to pay attention when PSG plays against other strong teams besides Bayern, namely when they face Arsenal. At that time PSG also did not score a goal. So it can be said that PSG always has difficulty scoring goals when facing opponents with a fairly high level of strength and almost equal to them. So I wasn't that surprised when they weren't able to score a goal against Bayern, which of course means Bayern's quality is no less strong than Arsenal. But I think PSG is really no longer as strong as last season. It seems there is no player who can replace Mbappe there. And I hope that next season PSG will be more serious about bringing in quality strikers. And actually in the last transfer market I really hoped that PSG would succeed in bringing in Osimhen. But unfortunately their negotiations with the Napoli club were not successful.

Is like City is fading away gradually and if something is not done fast, we might not see their shadows anymore. This is because of their recent consecutive losses is getting too much and their weaknesses is beyond control. Who am I to blame here, is it the players or Pep. I think Pep should look for another strategy to use because the old one is no longer working, since their opponents already understand how to easily break their defense. I don't think this is the City of previous seasons. I hope that they can qualify to the next round.

The magnitude of this draw Manchester City had with Feyenoord is greater than even some of the match they lose and currently the City boys are no longer confident on themselves as they use to be because they have seen themselves as a club who depends on luck to win, is funny how everybody has not been able to get over what happen to them against Tottenham Hotspur and they had to add up with this humiliation, I totally understand why Pep Guardiola was so much furious yesterday because people are beginning to talk down on him, however I heard people saying that they saw a picture of Pep Guardiola on social media with a lot of bruise on his face could it be true?.

Lots of goals indeed, particularly the three goals scored against Manchester City under 15 minutes to end of regular time. A very good indication that he City team's defense is weaker than ever and Pep needs to buckle up by making good use of the January transfer window to get some good defenders to his squad. Also, I think working on the psychology of the entire team isn't a bad idea as you suggest.

For today's game, I think Liverpool - Real Madrid game is definitely going to be the best attraction of tonight games due to the antecedents that surrounds whatever results that would come form that game for both sides. Especially Real Madrid, they needs those three points 10x than Liverpool needs it to survive in this first round of the competition. That's why I think Madrid players will stick their necks all out for that game to get full three points. It's actually going to be a very interesting match.

As for Aston villa - Juventus it's going to be an interesting game too but not close to the Liverpool - Real Madrid game. I hope to see more surprises tonight.

Currently Man City is in their worst performance. They have become quite blunt in scoring goals. And conversely, they also continue to concede in every match they play, especially in the last 6 matches where Man City lost 5 times and only drew 1 in those 6 matches. So yeah, everyone who was hoping for a revival in Man City must have felt disappointed because they still failed even when their opponents were not strong teams like Real Madrid or Bayern. But Man City even failed to win against Feyenoord. So yeah, it's natural that everyone is surprised. Moreover, in this match Man City could actually be expected to win after winning by 3 goals. But I think they were careless because they felt safe with the 3 goals they managed to score against Feyenoord. And the result was that they were surprised by 3 goals from Feyenoord which would definitely have really hit Man City with this result. Because even though they didn't lose, they failed to maintain a 3 goal lead which was quite embarrassing.

Atalanta, Atletico Madrid, Arsenal and Leverkusen really feasted on goals in this match. but I was very disappointed with PSG in yesterday's match. Because they couldn't even score 1 goal against Bayern. Even though I hoped that both teams would score goals in the Bayern vs PSG match, that didn't happen and it made me quite disappointed.

I'm sure many of us actually want to discuss this. It's just that we are all still surprised by the bad results that Man City got in the UCL this season.

And actually, in yesterday's match, Atalanta also managed to score 6 goals against Young Boys and yes, that's the same number of goals scored by Atletico Madrid against Sparta Prague. Well, there's actually a lot we want to discuss here. Especially regarding PSG's defeat which means PSG still fails to get points in the current UCL standings. And I'm worried that PSG won't be able to qualify for the next stage in the UCL this time. Because PSG has lost 3 times in 5 matches. And it is clear that this season has really been the season with the worst results for PSG in the last few seasons in the UCL.

Manchester City who had been ahead in the first half were actually better in terms of their game, but I also didn't expect that somehow in the second half when approaching the final minutes of the match the Manchester City players actually experienced a decline in performance so that Feyenoord was really able to take advantage of that in order to equalize in the remaining time. And with conditions like that at Manchester City, I began to doubt that the team would get a trophy this season because in their last six matches Manchester City had not won.

I was very surprised how Manchester City gave away their three-goal lead against Feyenoord last night, which led to a draw at Etihad Stadium. If someone told me that Feyenoord would come to Etihad Stadium yesterday and go back home with a point, I wouldn't agree with that person because I see Feyenoord as a club that has no chance of handing Manchester City pressure at home. Nobody will have the mind to play Manchester City to draw with Feyenoord when they were winning by three goals to nothing because the probability of Manchester City and Feyenoord ending in a draw is less, but since nobody can correctly predict the outcome of a match, the Manchester City and Feyenoord game ended in a draw.

It’s such a pity for them they have being on a losing streak for a while now and then they went on to bottle a 3 goal lead against Feyenoord it’s really bad and it’s getting worse and worse every week. Everything is just going wrong for guardiola and his boys. This hasn’t happened since Guardiola took charge of the club and it’s surprising what’s going wrong, i don’t see them challenging for the league this time around but it’s normal for a club to have a bad turn we have seen Real Madrid and other big teams struggle in some seasons.



He definitely should because it’s not funny anymore, these are still the same set of players he used to perform well with and the absence of just a few shouldn’t be much of a problem at all. He needs to wake the players up if they are sleeping because it’s really bad performance from them.

It's worthy of discussing indeed but it's not trending due to other big matches that involves Bayern Munich, Manchester city and Arsenal. All eyes were on Manchester city to see how they'll turn things around since they are having a bad game recently.

Athletico surprised me yesterday because in other games if they score one goal, they will retreat back to their usual defense. Yesterday they showed themselves differently because they scored one and wanted to score more, they had three goals and wanted more until it gets to six. That's how they should be playing and not always parking bus behind. Thou, they played against a weak team but their performance was a top notch.

Man City's defenders really looked like players filled with panic in the second half after Feyenoord scored the first goal. I don't think they're usually like that. But in this match they really showed that they have a mentality that is not that strong.

Man City has conceded 17 goals in just 6 matches. And this clearly indicates that there is a big problem in Man City's defense. Sporting CP managed to score 4 goals against Man City and Tottenham also did the same thing in the Premier League, namely Tottenham scored 4 goals against Man City. And yesterday Feyenoord scored 3 goals in a short time in the second half. So, it's clear that the problem is at the back.

And in today's match Real Madrid will face Liverpool. And we know that Real Madrid actually has the same problem with their defense.