How Manchester City went from world's best to straw men in 12 months | Barney Ronay

Rodri's injury, Erling Haaland and Pep Guardiola all play a role in this champion team's profound collapse Eight weeks, 12 games and nine defeats into Manchester City's descent into the footballing upside down, Pep Guardiola has at least identified the problem. "We haven't scored the goals we scored before, and we have conceded the goals we didn't concede," Guardiola told the BBC cameras after the defeat at VillaPark on Saturday, speaking in that now-familiar watery, rambling drawl, the voice of...