Manchester City basically stirred the white flag at the Bernabéu on Wednesday night and, without Erling Haaland, he lacked Real Madrid from the beginning.
Let’s be sincere, it was a chambolic performance on the side of Pep Guardiola, with a true lack of intensity.
Part of the city of Pickle found himself in the way Pep had established them.
I don’t know how many times Abdukodir Khusanov had played on the right side before, but it can’t be many, and the combination of Bernardo Silva and Ilkay Gundagan in the center of the field with Nico González simply did not work. They did not have their legs to deal with Real.
It ended up being really disappointing as a contest. The real were always favorites, but when the city loses, at least you expect to fall fighting.
Instead, it ended after less than five minutes. They never thought they could win and how many times have you said that about a PEP team?
Liverpool had a difficult time against Villa in the middle of the week, but they must think that they can also reach the city side.
Sutton prediction: 1-3
Bradley prediction: I don’t know about this, it’s such a big and exciting game. City has something to demonstrate against Liverpool and, although they had a bad result against Real, they had no confidence in the Newcastle. Liverpool is consistent at this time, in terms of not being beaten, but its form is not exactly phenomenal.
Until a couple of weeks ago, I would have seen the form in which Liverpool was and thought that everything was balanced in their favor, but the city is much better now than when they lost in Anfield in December.
City will be very, very strong, as they did against Newcastle, but if they sit down, I feel that Liverpool will return to the game. I go for a draw. 2-2
