Man City’s foundations crumbled with the end of Christian Norgaard as he interrupted his resurgence, while the Premier League champions launched a two-goal breakthrough of attracting 2-2 at Brentford.
Pep Guardiola’s appearance had a 2-0 complex with less than ten minutes to play before Brentford’s due fighting.
City had shown glimpses of their old selves, 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 their cave in the past is not 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 agreed on Abdukodir Khusanov and Palmeiras de Lens, Vitor Reis, temporarily highlighted Brentford back to the game.
Eight minutes into time, Nathan Ake lost his head to cut Mads Roerslev’s cross, allowing him to succeed on Yoane Wissa, who turned smartly and won his eleventh Premier League purpose 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. .
Ron Walker of Sky Sports at Gtech Community Stadium:
In the end, it is a game of characters. Brentford had it, Manchester City no.
From 2-0, Man City has noticed the game. They were probably to win it but not the intellectual strength.
Games like those are the ones in the house for Pep Guardiola how much you want to fix more beyond replacing Rodri.
There were brief glimpse of the city of the old while Kevin de Bruyne threw from the strings and Phil Foden discovered the bottom of the network, but they were ephemeral. The city of the elderly, even the city of September, would have a crispy like that.
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.
Their fragile midfield does continue to invite pressure but Manuel Akanji and Nathan Ake are capable of winning headers in their own penalty area. They are not the only ones culpable for the goals, and not the only ones playing within themselves.
The underlying figures contradicted any concept the city can come back, and now its fragile mindset has shown it.
Man City head coach Pep Guardiola:
“What I lost today that we did not make the right decisions in the final third, when the movements were that we could run. We were gaining long balls and we could run with them, however, we did not make the right decisions.
“I like the way Brentford plays, we have created a lot and we arrived here in several events and it was more likely than us.
“At 2-0 we had to close it out, but we don’t have a specific player to defend a result in the box – we have to do it with the ball, create and control in the final third.”
The main coach of Brentford 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 that Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal have been the 3 most sensible clubs in the 4 years that we have been in the Premier League, so that the ability and mentality to do that, the courage of the game, incredibly proud Of that and of course, returning from 2-0 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. “