Phil Foden latest Man City player to point out 'unacceptable' problem Pep Guardiola doesn't accept
Phil Foden became the latest player to publicly admit that Manchester City have a mentality problem in their dressing room - despite Pep Guardiola's insistence that they don't.
City looked to have stopped their slide with a morale-boosting derby win over Manchester United, and were about to bring on John Stones to see the game out when Matheus Nunes inexplicably passed back to Amad Diallo, before conceding a penalty when he attempted to stop the winger.
After Bruno Fernandes scored an equaliser, City allowed Amad in behind to score a winner as United celebrated an unlikely win and the Blues' wretched run continued.
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Guardiola insisted this week that City's run is not because of a confidence issue in the dressing room. Ilkay Gundogan said there is a mental problem after the Juventus defeat this week, prompting Guardiola to say he disagreed with his former captain. Now Foden has slammed the run as 'unacceptable', joining Gundogan in acknowledging the squad have no confidence at present.
"The game was in our hands," he told Match of the Day. "At 1-0 up we were controlling the game. We had a lot of possession. It seems to be the story at the moment I don't know what happens but we switch off and they score two goals. It keeps happening at the moment.
"We've not been used to losing this amount of games in a short period. But sometimes you have to experience this in life, you can't always win. When things go wrong they then seem to go worse. We have to stick together and regroup.
"You can concede at 1-1 but you can't concede straight after, that's unacceptable. It's just one of those, it's the way it is. At the start when you lose a couple of games no [it's not a confidence issue], but when it happens a lot it feels like a mental thing. We need to get out of that and get back to winning ways and pick ourselves back up."
