Pep still hasn't gotten over his 'coma'

DRAMA AT ETIHAD

Man.City's strange crisis is not over yet, although at least Pep Guardiola's team has stopped losing. In fact, the draw with Feyenoord in the Champions League this morning (November 27) was worse than a loss! And this time, perhaps Guardiola should ask himself: is Man.City losing points... because of him?

Man.City's defense played like they were sleepwalking, allowing Feyenoord (middle) to score 3 goals in just 15 minutes.

Leading by 3 goals at home, until the match only had 15 minutes left, Man.City was equalized by a personal mistake of defender Josko Gvardiol: a careless pass back, no different from an "inviting" assist for Anis Hadj-Moussa to score for Feyenoord. It didn't matter, when most viewers thought it was just an honorary equalizer for the away team. Man.City completely dominated the match, with 2 goals from Erling Haaland, and 1 goal from Ilkay Guendogan. Haaland's goal to make the score 3-0 brought the feeling: a real Man.City had reappeared, from the start to the assist and the finish.

It is unclear why coach Guardiola made a strange substitution in the middle of the second half. He took Guendogan, Phil Foden, Nathan Ake off the field, replacing them with Kevin de Bruyne and two young players James McAteer, Jahmai Simpson-Pusey. Being a perfectionist down to the smallest detail, did coach Guardiola think the match was really settled at 3-0? Man.City's squad was torn apart from the moment Gvardiol's mistake led to the loss. Santiago Gimenez and David Hancko scored consecutively in the final minutes, helping Feyenoord tie the score at 3-3.

With this result, Man.City has gradually sunk into the middle of the table, facing the risk of being eliminated from the group with a ticket to the round of 16. It is also possible that Pep was too worried about the match against Liverpool this weekend in the Premier League, so he made a mistake in making a substitution and lost points in an extremely regrettable way.

LEWANDOWSKI JOINS THE "100 CLUB"

Everyone knows: the main reason for Man.City's disastrous decline this season is the absence of midfielder Rodri due to injury. Arsenal also faced a similar situation when losing midfielder Martin Odegaard. Now, Odegaard is back and Arsenal has clearly improved, from the Premier League to the Champions League. At Jose Alvalade Stadium, where the home team Sporting Lisbon had just beaten Man.City 4-1 in the previous round, Arsenal triumphed in this series with a 5-1 victory. Although he did not score, Odegaard's brilliance and influence on Arsenal's attack were very clear. Five different players (Gabriel Martinelli, Kai Havertz, Gabriel, Bukayo Saka, Leandro Trossard) scored to give Arsenal a 5-star victory. Atalanta (6-1 at Young Boys), Atletico Madrid (6-0 at Sparta Prague), Leverkusen (5-0 against Red Bull Salzburg) are the other teams that have won big in this round.

This was a memorable series for veteran Robert Lewandowski. He scored twice to help Barcelona beat Brest 3-0, and surpassed the 100-goal mark in the Champions League. Before Lewandowski, only two other players had scored more than 100 goals in this prestigious arena - of course Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. Lewandowski even conquered the 100-goal mark faster than Ronaldo (it took only 125 matches, while Ronaldo needed 137 matches, Messi needed 123 matches).

The team that is currently performing the worst in the Champions League is PSG. They continue to be stuck at the bottom of the group (the group of 12 teams that will be eliminated immediately when the "league" stage ends), after losing 0-1 to Bayern Munich. Kim Min-jae scored the only goal, helping Bayern beat a PSG team reduced to 10 men in the last 30 minutes. Inter temporarily took the top spot (when Liverpool had not played) with a 1-0 victory over RB Leipzig. They are the only team that has not conceded a goal after 5 rounds of Champions League matches. AC Milan also won 3-2 at Slovan Bratislava.

Source: https://thanhnien.vn/pep-van-chua-qua-con-me-185241127220908006.htm