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'Minds scrambled' - National media spot Man City reaction to Feyenoord collapse before Liverpool
As Liverpool keep their focus on preparations for their own major Champions League battle this week, a quick glance across the North West showed the continuing capitulation of rivals Manchester City. With they the next Premier League opponents to come to Anfield, the scene is setting for a hugely important clash.
Arne Slot's side lead the way in the Premier League with 31 points, trailed by Pep Guardiola's reigning champions on a tally of 23. This eight-point difference has been made possible by a huge swing across the month of November, during which the Reds have collected maximum reward whilst Man City have entered a six-game winless run.
The latest in their astonishing run occurred on Tuesday night as they drew 3-3 to Feyenoord at the Etihad Stadium. It seemed certain victory would not evade them this time when 3-0 up, though conceding in the 75th, 82nd and 89th minutes flipped the script entirely.
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The national media gave their assessment of downtrodden Man City after the events, posing an inspiring picture for Liverpool heading into the weekend...
Minds were scrambled
David McDonnell for The Mirror wrote:
From 3-0 up, City contrived to throw away victory with self-inflicted mistakes, three goals conceded in 14 minutes underlining the scale of the ongoing crisis facing Guardiola. Calamitous defending allowed Feyenoord a way back into a game that should have been beyond them, but Guardiola's side proved obliging opponents with their late implosion.
City travel to Premier League leaders Liverpool on Sunday, where a repeat of such mistakes will be punished ruthlessly, with Arne Slot's side relishing the chance to inflict further misery on the struggling champions, who are in the midst of a full-blown crisis.
A mistake from Josko Gvardiol allowed Feyenoord to score what appeared to be little more than a consolation goal. More defensive chaos, seven minutes later, saw the visitors score again, leaving City fans fearing another horror show at home, after Saturday's 4-0 mauling to Spurs.
Those fears were well-founded and confirmed when City conceded a third goal in the 89th minute, after more slapstick defending from Guardiola's side, whose minds were scrambled.
Shell-shocked
Neil Johnston for BBC Sport wrote:
While Feyenoord fans celebrated wildly at the end, City's players looked shell-shocked after another game to forget.
In the space of four weeks, Guardiola's side have gone out of the EFL Cup, lost three Premier League games on the spin and dropped five points out of six in the Champions League.
This felt like another defeat at the end, with City left to contemplate having conceded two or more goals in six successive matches in all competitions for the first time since May 1963.
The night had started so well.
Can go down at any moment
Jamie Jackson for The Guardian wrote:
Manchester City’s losing sequence is over – just. But they remain a listing ship that can go down at any moment. “Fragile” was Pep Guardiola’s summation of his team’s state, and a clue to the manager’s own mood was the cut to his nose that he stated was self‑inflicted, by a finger, due to the contest’s travails.
After five consecutive defeats, on the cards was a canter of a victory that would have made Guardiola and his players feel far brighter before the champions’ next challenge: the game at Liverpool on Sunday. After the shaky finish, however, the trip to Arne Slot’s leaders is the last one City would want.
More reason to doubt themselves
James Ducker for The Telegraph wrote:
Even at their imperious best, Manchester City have seldom had much joy away to Liverpool and they will travel to Anfield on Sunday now with even more reason to doubt themselves after an extraordinary capitulation against Feyenoord. After five successive defeats, City appeared to be on course to rediscover the art of winning.
Two goals by Erling Haaland either side of a deflected volley from Ilkay Gundogan had put them 3-0 up and firmly on course to stop the rot. But nothing is quite straightforward for the Premier League champions at the moment and all the insecurities and fragility and horrors of recent weeks seemed to come flooding back the moment Feyenoord pulled back a goal that would prove the catalyst for a breathless 14-minute collapse.
When Pep Guardiola made a triple substitution in the 68th minute, he could scarcely have imagined that before too long the handsome lead his side had fought hard to come by after a stodgy first period would disappear like sand through his fingers.
Yet this is what defeats do: they erode confidence, even among the best players. As superb as Feyenoord were in the final quarter, their goals were gift- wrapped by a team who are an accident waiting to happen at the back.
Staring at the wreckage
Jack Gaughan for The Daily Mail wrote:
Will they ever win again? It’s all right, only Liverpool away next for Manchester City. Only the prospect of falling 11 points behind their title rivals. Only another avenue into ignominy waiting menacingly.
City are stuck down the darkest of alleys, nervously inching forwards and back, constantly chipping their glistening paintwork. More self-inflicted damage, three goals clear against inferior opposition with 15 minutes of a crucial Champions League fixture and not winning.
Forget Tottenham, this was worse. Inexcusable, unforgivable, defensive mistakes born out of five consecutive defeats and no confidence in themselves to see a game through once the Dutch nicked a goal back. The brutal reality is that Pep Guardiola, who said his response to adversity has been to scratch his nose so vigorously that it’s drawn blood, has some job on his hands now.
A job not only finding solutions to a misshapen midfield or ploughing on with a squad full of half-fit players. A job to pick up bruised egos and personalities who look shell-shocked, squabbling with each other. As David Hancko scored Feyenoord’s third with a minute left – after Ederson had rushed out and missed his chance to clear – Erling Haaland was seen just staring into the distance. Staring at the wreckage.
