What's wrong with Man City?
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 December 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
After Manchester City fell to defeat at Villa Park on Wednesday night, Pep Guardiola's side slipped to fourth in the Premier League and six points off pace-setters Arsenal.
So what is going wrong at City, is it a glitch in the matrix or are their problems more serious?
Ayo Akinwolere is joined by The Athletic's Mark Critchley, Pol Ballus and Thom Harris to explore and examine City's winless run as it stretched to four games in the Premier League.
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| 0:00.0 | He's having a blinder. He's clipped the post. He's looking formidable. Then... |
| 0:09.0 | His game might be over, but yours isn't. |
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| 0:34.1 | The Athletic. |
| 0:41.5 | Manchester City's Premier League slump continued last night |
| 0:43.7 | as they were lucky to only lose |
| 0:45.5 | one-nill away to Aston Villa. |
| 0:48.1 | Carried a long way by Bailey, lovely chop inside, |
| 0:50.6 | Bailey, it's in! |
| 0:54.4 | Big deflection, Ronfford's Edison, and Leon Bailey, puts Ashton Dillow. |
| 1:01.2 | So, is it a glitch in the Matrix? |
| 1:04.4 | Is Pets simply missing too many key players? |
| 1:07.5 | Or are there problems a little bit more serious than that? |
| 1:12.4 | I'm Ayahuakim Alere. |
| 1:13.6 | Welcome to the Athletic Football podcast. |
| 1:35.6 | Thank you. I'm joined by the athletics, Manchester football writer Mark Critchley, |
| 1:40.8 | Paul Belouse, author of Peps City, The Making of a Super Team, and also Data Football writer Tom Harris. |
| 1:43.2 | All right, Paul, let's start with you. |
| 1:44.9 | Reluctantly, I'm going to say this, |
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