This Saturday, Manchester City added their fourth consecutive defeat in an official match for the first time in the ‘Guardiola era’ after losing 2-1 to Brighton, which worsened the crisis of results for a team that worked in the first half with a goal. by Erling Haaland and that collapsed in the second with the successes of João Pedro and Matt O’Riley.
The crisis that the ‘citizen’ team is going through is a reality and the nerves in the club are on edge as they go through the games and they fail to add three points again. An action by Haaland at the end of the match was an example of the tension that the club is going through. The Norwegian striker ended up losing his nerve in the 98th minute, with 2-1 down and the game about to end. Bernardo finished, Verbruggen caught and, immediately afterwards, the City leader was involved in a kind of judo combat with Van Hecke.
Both players grabbed each other’s necks and shirts until they were separated by their teammates. Samuel Barrott, the referee of the match, solved it by showing a yellow card to each one.
Guardiola loses his nerve
The incident did not stop there. Pep Guardiola. After the final whistle, he went directly towards the Brighton player to constantly reproach him for the action with Haaland. “He was strong with Erling and I told him: ‘When Erling confronts you, stay standing, don’t throw yourself on the grass’. But he played a very good game…”, assured the City coach.
