Man City’s foundations crumbled with the end of Christian Norgaard interrupting their resurgence as the Premier League champions threw in a two-goal lead to lure 2-2 at Brentford.
Pep Guardiola’s look was a complex 2-0 with less than ten minutes to play before the due Brentford fight.
City had shown glimpses of his former self, while Captain Kevin de Bruyne delivered the functionality of a captain and will return to the master of yesteryear with a better cross for the first game near Phil Foden, before his cave in the past does not Be back, how far they have fallen this season.
They looked to have seen off Brentford’s threat when Foden notched another from inside the six-yard box to continue his own personal resurgence 12 minutes after his first – and had Savinho’s effort not hit a post and Erling Haaland not aimed a header straight at Mark Flekken, they might have.
But their defensive fragility, which saw them agree on Abdukodir Khusanov and Palmeiras de Lens’ deals, Vitor Reis, temporarily came to highlight Brentford back in the game.
Eight minutes from time, Nathan Ake missed his header to cut out Mads Roerslev’s cross, allowing it to reach Yoane Wissa, who swivelled smartly and notched his 11th Premier League goal of the season.
A repeated functionality to get there, while Brentford have risen longer when Norgaard beat Manuel Akanji in Keane Lewis-Potter’s delivery, lifting the roof of the GTech network stadium and once again leaving last season’s Premier League champions in bloody. .
Sky Sports Ron Walker at the Gtech Community Stadium:
Ultimately this was a game of character. Brentford had it, Manchester City didn’t.
From 2-0, Man City has noticed the game. They were probably to win it but not the intellectual force.
Games like those are the ones in the house for Pep Guardiola how much you want to fix more beyond replacing Rodri.
There had been brief glimpses of the City of old as Kevin De Bruyne pulled the strings and Phil Foden found the back of the net, but they were fleeting. The City of old, even the City of September, would not have crumpled like this.
Guardiola replied that his appearance had never produced so much opposite to the bees, but they had not abandoned 18 shots. Most of them arrived here before City scored the first, however, the first change in the impulse of Yane Wissa’s returns enough to overthrow them.
Its center of the fragile field continues to invite the pressure, however, Manuel Akanji and Nathan Ake are capable of winning headers in their own penalty area. They are the only guilty of the objectives, and the only ones who play within themselves.
The underlying figures contradicted any concept of the town can be back, and now their fragile mentality has showed it.
Man City head coach Pep Guardiola:
“What I missed today was that we didn’t take the right decisions in the final third, when the actions were that we could run. We were winning long balls and could run with them, but we didn’t make the right decisions.
“I like the way Brentford play, we created a lot and we came here several times and they had more chances than us.
“At 2-0, we had to close it out, but we don’t have an express player to protect a result in the box: we have to do it with the ball, create and in the final third. “
Brentford head coach Thomas Frank to TNT Sport:
“I just said to the players in there that I was extremely happy and proud of the performance. I think this is the first time in four years that over the 90 minutes, we go toe-to-toe with a top-three club.
“I think Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal have been the 3 most sensible clubs in the 4 years we’ve been in the Premier League, so the ability and the mentality to do that, the bravery of the game, incredibly proud of that and of course, to come back from 2-0 down is a fantastic mentality.
“I’m very happy. I would have been disturbed with the performance, but the feeling is a bit bigger after I’ve left something. “