Harry-Kari
Vital 1st Team Regular
Well while part of me was pleased to see the money cheats beaten part of me wanted to see an English club win....Guardiola decided to try to stay defensively strong which made his team play in a very pedestrian and non-offensive way...he left Silva, Foden and Bernardo Silva on the bench essentially the engine room of their attacking play and played Gundogan, Rodrigo and DeBryne essentially in an unproductive, pedestrian MF and rarely created a scoring chance...their familiar defensive cock-ups kicked in to give Lyon an early lead and then when City equalised and Sterling missed an open goal from 3 yards their defensive hopelessness let Lyon score 2 more.
Guardiola, for all his tactical skills really screwed up and his track record on buying defenders and defensive MFs is poor....LaPorte is average to poor, Stones is rubbish, Otamendi poor, Gundogan average, and Rodrigo poor...it seems City are suffering from the Barcelona disease in that the key players from his successful team have aged and have left (Silva, Aguero, Kompany) and the replacements cant cut it.
posted this on the Other Activities thread...glad you found this one Mutters.
Guardiola, for all his tactical skills really screwed up and his track record on buying defenders and defensive MFs is poor....LaPorte is average to poor, Stones is rubbish, Otamendi poor, Gundogan average, and Rodrigo poor...it seems City are suffering from the Barcelona disease in that the key players from his successful team have aged and have left (Silva, Aguero, Kompany) and the replacements cant cut it.
posted this on the Other Activities thread...glad you found this one Mutters.