Erikse

It's unlucky, but that's what often happens when we are under pressure for so long. Not that we can start attacking them when we are out of energy anyways.

Impossible when we can't run anymore.

Unfortunately the chance of them scoring more on our defence is quite high.. Obviously. Who knows, maybe we can get more aswell.

I'm sure many mentioned it, but Isaks tackle for the 2-1 goal.Got rewarded

I don't think anyone would deny the extent of the fatigue issue since the Spurs game in december. Maybe I'm wrong though.

Can't wait for de Bruyne to come on in the second half..

Dan Burn went full Xavi

Gonna break the xG record again.

I'm not a huge fan of Almiron, but his pressing gave us a goal at Sunderland and should've given us another today. I wouldn't blame that miss on him.

If it wasn't for Almiron, the chance wouldn't even have happened. Gordon messed it up and Bruno hesitated.

Thank god he's not injured atleast.

De Bruyne on the bench. Doku starts.

That was 6 days ago. Guardiola said this yesterday: “Kevin De Bruyne is ready to start and I can see he is very good and the trip to Abu Dhabi will do him good too. I saw him yesterday and he feels good and dynamic. He played well, better than the sessions before Huddersfield. He’s getting better.”

They are running into some difficult fixtures in the next 8 gameweeks.

Our 7th choice CM passed the fitness test so that he could start against Man City. And that somehow helps us a lot (unironically). Howay!

It's a shame, without the Joelinton injury I would've been quite positive. Got some momentum from the derby and had 7 days of rest, on top of Isak, Dubs and Joelinton finding some form.

He wanted to leave, that's the only reason. Maybe they couldn't guarantee him enough minutes for him to want to stay?

Our defence is pretty darn old in terms of average age. Yet another reason to not spend money on old players right now.

I've heard that it's tricky to make a full recovery from achilles injuries. Reoccurences are quite common to my understanding. If that's true, we probably need to be very careful with him when he's back. I don't even expect him to be back in february.

Yeah, on a more serious note de Bruyne will probably do really well against us.

Sorry for the negativity, but I expect de Bruyne to have a cracking comeback today. Especially since I chose to not put him into my fantasy team while many others did. Sorry about that.

The Saudis just wanted to turn us into a Barca feeder club.. Why didn't we realise this earlier?

They feel so entitled. The success over the years has got to them.

Is it just me, or does that guy look a little bit like Steve Bruce?

I really don't know the exact rules, but I would assume that VAR would stick with the onfield decision here regardless of what the refs decision was, as it seemed like a close call.