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Is Man City's Attack Too Predictable?

ESPN FC

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Sports, Soccer

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew continue to react to Arsenal's 1-0 victory over Manchester City and criticize the defending champions for lack of creativity in attack after one of Erling Haaland's worst performances in sky blue. Plus, Sebastian Salazar joins the show to recap Lionel Messi's first season in MLS and question how the league can move forward after so much success from the Argentines' arrival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello, it's ESPNLC, welcome to the show, I'm Dan Thomas, Ali Morello is here, Shack

0:10.2

a hit slot, international week, no time to shack it, that's great, like it or love it,

0:16.2

that's awesome.

0:17.2

Let's talk about what happened yesterday, shall we? I'm not sure if you noticed, but

0:21.0

Arsenal beat Manchester City by one goal to nail, meaning they are now level on points with

0:25.9

spurs at the top of the table, Manchester City in third, two points of drift of the North

0:31.3

London side.

0:32.3

Here's what Pep Bayola has to say about defeat, no team has ever won four in a row, of course

0:38.1

talking about championships, defeat can happen, but we're in October. Sometimes it gets

0:43.1

good going behind. It's not the first time going behind for the contenders last season,

0:48.2

we were much much behind, but the season is long, it has happened. For more on this,

0:53.6

let's talk a little bit about it, as it is, Manchester City TV, it's a marathon, not

1:00.6

a sprint, it doesn't matter if you lose against Arsenal, be right on the end.

1:07.3

You would think so, I think it felt like it was a big game yesterday, but long behold,

1:11.2

Arsenal win it and credit to them for doing so, it takes a monkey off their back, because

1:15.2

it has been a very long time since they've beaten City in the league, but they're still

1:18.2

in second, that's how undefinitive it is, it's eight games in, we've got 30 more games

1:24.5

to go. I think for me, Arsenal's still title, Challenges City as well, Spurs maybe, Liverpool

1:30.2

maybe, but I think it's just good from Arsenal's perspective that they've shown that they

1:33.4

can do that. It has been so, so long since they have. To be honest, for me, it felt like

1:37.8

it was going to be a draw. The game itself, it wasn't the most exciting game you've ever

1:41.7

seen, obviously defensively, it was solid, it was tactical and so on, but you have that

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