Two games, the same problem.
While Paris seemed too unbalanced collectively against Bruges, Pep Guardiola's Manchester City also had some defensive problems.
And despite the very large victory against the Leipzig of Christopher Nkunku, yet author of a hat-trick, the Spanish coach did not miss his attackers, guilty of defensive failures.
In a scene filmed by the British media BT Sport, we see him berating Mahrez and Grealish, two of his offensive players, very vigorously at the start of the second half.
Jack Grealish: ⚽️🅰️
Riyad Mahrez: ⚽️
It doesn't matter how well you're playing, if you don't do your defensive duties Pep Guardiola will tell you all about it 😤 # UCL pic.twitter.com/f9ZQFxaq4w
- Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) September 15, 2021
And this even if the two players had a full offensive match and carried their team to victory.
Asked by the same English channel after the meeting, Guardiola explained: “At half-time we talked about how to play and they did not do it.
But it does happen.
They are so good, in the construction of the game they attract the defenders around them.
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Himself launched by the channel on this anger of Guardiola, Grealish almost laughed: "it was just a defensive job, I will not come back to it too much because he could do the same again this weekend, explains the City's latest recruit. He's like that, he always wants more defensively and offensively, and obviously you have to listen to him. It gives useful information. "
