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Pep Guardiola had enough energy to play West Bromwich himself. Image: keystone
ManCity in crisis and Pep Guardiola goes crazy about injury time
Manchester City simply cannot move in the Premier League. After a 0-0 draw in the city derby against Manchester United at the weekend, there was only one draw yesterday, this time against West Bromwich Albion, the team with the weakest defense in the league. After 12 games, the star set is only at rank 6. The “Citizens” have only won 5 games so far.
In a 1-1 draw against West Bromwich, Man City had 77% possession and 26-5 shots, but the ball was twisted once at the net. The game for Manchester City started as planned, with Ilkay Gündogan taking the lead after half an hour.
The 1-0 by Gündogan (30.) Video: streamja
It was very unfortunate that the tie occurred shortly before the break. With the only real chance of the match, West Brom made it 1-1: the ball was deflected so decisively by Semi Ajayi’s shot that Ruben Dias considered it an own goal.
The 1-1 through an own goal by Rubén Dias (43.). Video: streamja
In the second half, Manchester City kept pressing the first goal, but it wasn’t enough for a long time. The longer the game lasted, the greater the pressure. As the 90th minute of the game began, city manager Pep Guardiola was expecting considerable injury time, and was apparently disappointed. The Spaniard could not believe that only four minutes were added and he danced like Rumpelstiltskin in front of the fourth official.
Pep Guardiola does not agree with the four minutes of added time. Video: streamja
All the pep drama in pictures:
Ironically, the four minutes were enough for Man City to have the two biggest chances of the entire game. With perfect crosses from Kevin De Bruyne, Ilkay Gündogan (91st) and Raheem Sterling (94th) led West Brom goalkeeper Sam Johnstone from virtually identical positions.
Gündogan and Sterling fail at Johnstone. Video: transmittable
After the match, Pep Guardiola explained his excitement on the injury time screen:
“It is not a problem with Anthony Taylor (fourth officer, editor). I said four minutes is not enough. Gabriel (Jesús, the editor) was on the ground for three minutes, there were 6 substitutions and every time his goalkeeper had the ball, 30 seconds passed. I expected more. We had a chance to win, but we couldn’t score. »
Midfielder Ilkay Gündogan found another reason for the disappointing 1-1 draw. For him, the tight schedule is the reason for the problems, as he told BBC Sport. “All teams in Europe are fighting to win matches in a row. It’s almost impossible for one team to dominate everything, especially on this schedule. We are people, not machines, we also have to fight ”.
In fact, there are enough alternatives in the equipment in case of overload. Pep Guardiola, who made two of the three possible changes, left Riyad Mahrez, Ferran Torres, Bernardo Silva and Aymeric Laporte on the bench yesterday for the full 90 minutes.
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