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Guardiola had warned: “Nobody wants to hear from the players.” In the previous reception to Leicester, the Spanish coach criticized the intense schedule of the teams that are in European competitions, recalled that the most important thing should be the protection of the players and guaranteed that he had no more than 13 options for the match of this Sunday. this after Gabriel Jesus was the most recent name in the already extensive batch of wounded.
“Nobody wants to know about the players, only the business counts. It is not just City, it is for all clubs and countries. Everyone, the Premier League, UEFA, defend their business and their position. The players had two weeks of preseason and now have to play every three days for 11 months. I realize that this is an exceptional moment for everyone: restaurants, theaters, cinemas, museums, everyone is struggling. But we have to see things. Three players came back injured from the national teams, we couldn’t control that. They played two games in four days with almost no preparation. They are not machines, ”Guardiola said at the press conference prior to the game against Brendan Rodgers’ team.
Get ready for Leicester! ????????
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– Manchester City (@ManCity) September 27, 2020
In total, Manchester City have eight games until the end of October: six between the Premier League and the League Cup and two, yet to be decided, for the group stage of the Champions League. And also the accounts, the the citizens you now have seven injured players, all of whom could easily start, between Gabriel Jesus (three weeks off), Agüero (two more months off) and Bernardo Silva, João Cancelo, Zinchenko, Laporte and Gündoğan.
And almost on purpose, to give reason to Guardiola, Manchester City ended up being defeated in the Etihad by Leicester this Saturday. the the citizens They even started to win, thanks to an early goal from Mahrez (4 ′), but soon everything started to fall apart: Jamie Vardy took a penalty in the first half (37 ′), put Leicester in the second (54 ′) and completed the hat trick again from a penalty (58 ′). James Maddison (77 ′) and Tielemans (88 ′) increased the numbers and Nathan Aké, in the middle, reduced the handicap for City (84 ′), closing the scores at 2-5.
Hat-trick hero ????#MCILEI pic.twitter.com/9Rtb8hibiu
– Premier League (@premierleague) September 27, 2020
Manchester City have not conceded five goals at home since 2002/03, Guardiola had never conceded five goals in his entire coaching career, since Owen in 2002, no player has scored three goals in the the citizens. After the opening game victory against Wolves, in which the team immediately left signs of not being at the best moment, Manchester City fell in a clash against Leicester and shows no signs of big recoveries: in the middle, they will have one more. intense, with several injured players and a coach who seems to have little motivation.
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