Stuart Robson

You lose the fear factor.

You know, in years gone by, when Man City were seven points behind Arsenal at this stage, I think in a couple of seasons, you went, oh, Man City are going to win all their games from now to the end of the season and Arsenal are going to have to do well.

And people were frightened of Manchester City.

They didn't want to go and play them.

It's how can we stop them scoring rather than go and attacking them.

Now you can go and attack Man City.

There's lots of spaces to play.

They've lost that fear factor, which is a big blow for them.

He's got a big squad, but is it full of quality?

Is it full of proven players that are constantly winning week in, week out?

No.

When you see some of the players, like Marmoosh has come to the club.

We saw a player in Bundesliga and you thought, what a good signing that is.

He's going to do this, he's going to do that.

He can play up front, he can play wide, and he has one or two good games.

But because he's not playing consistently, and then when he does have the odd bad game, he gets left out of the team, he's lost his confidence.

So a lot of those players that came into the side today

won't have been high on confidence.

Nathan Aki's a good example, who two years ago was one of their better defenders.

Now, because he plays irregularly, he can't get his form right, and he's lost his confidence, and he knows the manager doesn't quite fancy him as much as he did before.