FOOTBALL DAILY: Pep's City frozen in the Arctic, Arteta's mentality monsters and an Irish striker is on the move, but which one?
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Oh, man, fire, Thomas. Join in the obsession. Subscribe now at offtheball.com forward slash join. Off the Ball's Football Daily. Welcome along to Wednesday's Football Daily, I'm Phil Egan. Coming up today, Manchester City suffer a shock loss to Bodo Glimt and is this the beginning of the end for Pep Guardiola? Spurs beat Borussia Dortmund to ease the pressure on manager Thomas Frank and Mohamed Salah gets ready to return for Liverpool's crucial game away to Marseille. But first today, Manchester City were beaten 3-1 by Bodo Glimt in the Arctic Circle in Norway last night in the Champions League. City have yet to record a league win in 2026. and this result leaves them on 13 points in the Champions League.
They finish at home to Galatasaray next week. For City, qualifying for the last 16 hangs in the balance now. Bodo Glimm's most famous scalp gives them six points, keeps their dream alive of making the playoffs. The Norwegian side were three-nil up before Ryan Cherky pulled one back for the former European champions. Rodri was sent off in the second half. Pep Guardiola says that even after Saturday's loss to Manchester United coupled with last night, that his team were beaten by a better transitional side.
I don't have any doubts in this competition, even the Premier League competition is nothing for granted. So that's for sure.
What happened in Manchester City's shocking defeat to Bodo Glimt?
So, listen, the players, when... United beat us so they were better. Today, OK, it was momentum that they punished us but the team was there and we created the things in the corners and some actions that missed for something and they, for transition, yeah, they're really good. Really good.
The Athletics Manchester City correspondent Sam Lee was on off-the-ball breakfast this morning to speak to Colin Buick and Gerard Gilroy and the subject of Guardiola's philosophy was up for debate. So, has Guardiola changed his philosophy then? No, I don't think so. I think... What I think has happened is they've bought players to cope in the more physical, dynamic, end-to-end Premier League. La Fusameno, great example. They've signed loads of players you wouldn't typically call Guardiola players because they don't think about keeping the ball first. They think about... beating a man or having some creativity and they've got energy rinders box to box eight nori can cover a lot of ground um again turkeys if this kind of magical player um so many of this powerhouse runner with the ball marmoosh very direct player kusunov is his passing's all right but they he's just incredibly aggressive defender he's
He's not a, ignore the warning if you can. He's not a typical Guardiola player. He's not a John Stones. He's not a Laporte who uses the ball for it. He's got incredible pace that can get them out of a hole. Donnarumma has got incredible saves that can get them out of a hole. The forwards can create magic that can get them out of a hole. And that helps them survive, I think, in this more direct physical Premier League where they're going to be asked more questions and they're going to need to change the pace. But I think Guardiola is going to bring them back towards how he wants it to be. And ironically... At the moment, if you remember the games in November when they beat Liverpool, they beat Bournemouth, they beat Dortmund, they had less possession and they were able to counter-attack all of a sudden.
They were suddenly better at counter-attacking than keeping the ball. That right now suits them better than keeping the ball, but the process is obviously going to be, well, if we insist, insist, insist on them keeping the ball, then eventually there'll be probably a good mix of the two where they've got control of games, but they can't switch the rhythm up. At the moment, they're just trying to find that balance. Remember, you can listen to Off the Ball Breakfast each and every weekday morning from half past seven. It's on the GoLoud app and it's also available on YouTube.
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