Man City's Miserable New Year
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Welcome into the latest edition of ESPN FC. I'm Dan Thomas, joined by Craig Burley and Ali Moreno. We'll kick things off in Norway. Loda Glint taking on Manchester City in the Champions League and it would be the hosts that would humiliate City by three goals to one. Rodri sent off in the process for two yellow cards in a matter of 53 seconds. A very disappointing night for the Premier League side. Here's Pep Guardiola.
Difficult situations, we lose a ball. We lose a ball and we're there and make a transition. They are fast and, you know, sometimes you react.
What did Manchester City struggle with in their loss to Bodo/Glimt?
I don't know, it's a little bit soft in the second one, but that's what it is. But, yeah, at the moment, 3-1, after one minute you make... You know, everything is a little bit against, you know, for many, many things, especially when we start in the New Year's Eve, when... In Sunderland we miss what we miss and have to start to make injures and injures and Mateus for a flu cannot ease. So many, many things is against and in that level in Champions League or United or in the top level always is a little bit more difficult to have the consistency that we had during one or two months that we were set even games winning, winning and being there. Now, OK, we lost important players and we lost a little bit but in general the tone of the team was much, much better than the last one.
So take a look at what's been going on for City in 2026. Just the two wins, that was in the Carabao Cup against Newcastle and that 10-1 thrashing of Loli Exeter. Apart from that, they have really laboured, struggled in front of goal, struggled defensively as well for Bode Glint, obviously.
How did Rodri's red card impact Manchester City's performance?
They are very much in dreamland as they get their first win in the Champions League to take them up into 27th. in the table. Let's welcome in Frank Leboeuf and just about on time, Stuart Robson joins us. We'll be hearing from them in a moment.
A little angry before we came on here. You know, he said this ending off was soft. It wasn't. It wasn't soft.
What are Pep Guardiola's thoughts on City's recent form?
The only thing soft is his defence at the moment. City could have, United could have scored five against them. Bordeaux-Glint could have scored five. There was one chopped off for offside. It was tight, it was offside. There was another one where they hit the bar. Yes, they were down to ten men. But I don't want to hear, I'm fed up, I don't want to hear excuses. Well, Matthias Nunes had the flu and we have injuries. I know you've got injuries. You've gone out and spent again. You brought Mark Gay in from Palace. But don't go and buy Semenya. for 60 odd million. You've got Mamouch, you've got Foden, you've got Cherki, you've got Doku, you've got Tijani Reinders who can play in several positions. Go and buy two centre-halves.
If it's that bad, go and buy two centre-backs. Don't go and buy Semenya and spend the money there. Right? To just buffer up all these attacking options that you've got and you can't keep clean sheets. And also... If I played a game in a big... If we played a big Manchester derby at the weekend, right? And we were young players. And my manager took me off. My chin's on the floor. Young Elaine, he says. And by the way, Kusinov's not much better. But the youngster looked fragile, right? And I would never... Slaughter a young player for coming into the team and making mistakes. But what do you expect putting him back out there? Away from home on one of those sort of hybrid pitches, freezing cold against a side that it's their big moment.
Playing Man City, Ellen Halland's back in town. The Bags of Money team have turned up. He's put the young player back out. Yeah, he's short in numbers. Aki's on the bench though. And the youngsters made two mistakes again. So he's kind of chucked him back in there with the Wolves. And they're being bumped. So I just don't think Man City and Pep Guardiola are making very good decisions at this moment in time.
We spoke about the Manchester derby, Erling Haaland pretty much anonymous in that. We kind of gave him, well, the boys gave him a pass then. He's just not getting the supply at the moment.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:04–0:39
2
What did Manchester City struggle with in their loss to Bodo/Glimt?
0:39–1:43
3
How did Rodri's red card impact Manchester City's performance?
1:43–2:06
4
What are Pep Guardiola's thoughts on City's recent form?
2:06–5:09
5
What factors contributed to Manchester City's poor performance in 2026?
5:09–36:52
6
How did Vinicius Junior perform against Monaco?
36:52–56:27
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