Man City are showing they have issues killing games off after failing to make their dominance pay for the second time in a matter of days. twoht on their draw against Leipzig this evening.
Two steps forward one step back seems to have been something of a motif for Manchester City this season, and particularly over the last three months or so. They haven’t won more than three straight league games since the start of November, and every time it’s felt as though they’re just about to start moving up through the gears they do something fundamentally ridiculous like drawing at home to Everton or losing to Spurs.
That doesn’t sound like much, but there’s a six-team chase on for this year’s German title, with only five points between top-of-the-table Bayern Munich and sixth-placed Eintracht Frankfurt. Had Leipzig won those two games, they’d be a point clear at the top of the table. As things stand, they’re fifth.
Pep Guardiola’s team initially seemed to have the right balance of incision and smothering press, with Jack Grealish an animated presence on their left, rubbery-limbed as ever and carrying a schoolboy-esque cut on his knee. But for all that possession, they didn’t create a great deal. Erling Haaland was apparently on the pitch, a familiar state of play until he inevitably pops up to score twice. Of course when this doesn’t happen, he just looks close to invisible.
From out of nowhere, Manchester City were chasing the ball and playing on the break, with a chance finally presenting itself for Haaland, who dragged a shot across the face of goal and well wide after being fed in the right hand channel, while not for the first time this season gaps in their defence were to be found upon the application of pressure.
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