Dom Farrell
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Senior content producer @sportingnewsuk . Former Manchester City Fan Brands Editor at Reach plc; @StatsPerform ; @pasport . The usual disclaimer.
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I went to see the three title chasers over three consecutive days for
@sportingnews
.
Chaos at the City Ground, derby drama at the Etihad Stadium and a grotesque mismatch at Bramall Lane.
Liverpool, City and Arsenal march on.
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Daughter showing no respect for Walkers. Sad to see.
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Sancho left City in 2017, Maresca first joined the staff in 2020.
🔵 Jadon Sancho: “Enzo Maresca really drew me to the project. I knew him from his time with Pep in Manchester City”.
“He spoke to me on the phone about this project and what he was building here, and for a young player like myself it’s exciting and I can’t wait to get start”.
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Just an obscenely talented footballer. Given his age and quality, feels like the biggest waste of anyone playing out there.
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Given when Pep and Ibra have achieved respectively since 2010, it's remarkable how much he still wangs on about this.
He got dropped so Messi could play centre-forward and was then replaced by David Villa, who you'd have in your team every day of the week ahead of this manchild.
"You f*** with me, I f*** with you."
Zlatan Ibrahimović reveals how he handled his fractious relationship with former boss Pep Guardiola. And there's much more where that came from - tonight at 8pm.
@Ibra_official
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@piersmorgan
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#PMU
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Glorious how this run inevitably ends with a defeat at Spurs 😂
50 - Rodri has now gone 50 games unbeaten across all club competitions for Manchester City (W39 D11), since featuring in a 1-0 loss to Tottenham in February last year. Foundation.
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Manchester City have dropped points against Newcastle, Aston Villa, Liverpool and Brentford in the Premier League this season.
Minutes played by Jack Grealish in those games: 0
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Bernardo Silva coming on to needlessly clatter a United and then score the equaliser in a derby might be the Bertiest birthday one could enjoy.
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McAtee looks every inch a City midfielder, Delap looks absolutely nothing like a City forward. Both of these things are good things.
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Hi, someone who was in the room last night for Guardiola's "my life is better than yours" zinger here. It was just a bit of a laugh. No one was being "slammed", nothing was "brutal" or any other aggregator-friendly term.
People not there seem to have developed big opinions.
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David Silva and little Mateo (who isn't so little anymore) back in Manchester
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Appointing the guy who was commercial director for the City Football Group between 2011 and 2016 is certainly interesting. Suggests United maybe think, on balance, the charges that were found to be unproven by CAS are likely to go the same way in the Premier League case.
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Where's Edin Dzeko to lie down for four minutes when you need him? ffs
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It'll be interesting when the verdict comes in (insofar as everyone hasn't already made their minds up). Do allegedly dodgy sponsorship deals from a decade ago have any impact on John Stones becoming a mad CB/midfielder hybrid. I'd argue he can have his "flowers" whatever.
Ian Wright addresses the elephant in the room for Manchester City 👀🐘
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The Kompany one, absolutely. Properly gut-wrenching for Liverpool. However...
Jurgen Klopp: “You go again after not winning the
#PL
from a goal from Vinnie Kompany or a not-given handball from Rodri. It was a crazy situation that... We were on the bus, we watched it and the whole bus shouted ‘Handball! Wait, he’s not getting it?’..." [via
@TheAnfieldWrap
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Btw, Cole Palmer is miles better than Phil Foden for England, because he decided to leave the rigidity of the Pep system, in which Phil was preferred. He outshone Foden massively in the tournament. Foden has become a ‘system’ player, Palmer feels free to express himself.
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Spectacular goals at risk of dying out in the Pep Guardiola era
✍️
@thomgibbs
#TelegraphFootball
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Me every time I watch Manuel Akanji lately.
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"You want to play with fire, I will bring fire and I will burn you... but obviously he is the coach."
Hahaha, big scary hard man. Bloody hierarchies stopping him from meting out fiery justice.
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If people were wondering why City looked like a more traditional Guardiola team yesterday, here's a stat.
Rodri and Kovacic made 293 passes, the same as all the Newcastle players put together.
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If Ederson starts tonight, reckon he'll try to boot the ball into the roof for a laugh. May or may not be an argument for Ortega keeping his place.
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Have to feel for any third child that will inevitably be called Bonehead.
Oasis have today announced a return after 15 years away.
Wojciech Szczęsny has today announced his retirement from football after a 15-year career.
On a completely unrelated note, Szczęsny’s children are called…
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BREAKING 😂😂😂
Has literally been the case since City were charged in February.
🚨 BREAKING: Manchester City could be relegated from the Premier League according to reliable reports. More here.
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Real Madrid (H),
#UCL
QF 2nd-Leg, Wednesday 17 April.
Chelsea (N),
#EmiratesFACup
SF, Saturday 20 April.
𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟. 👀
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Hahaha, our kid reckons you're making the 8:20 from Euston after a 5:30 Sunday kickoff at Wembley. All the best!
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Ipswich. It was Ipswich. I was on a podcast that did a whole bit about it this week. Manchester City's history is rich, varied, brilliant, tragic and daft. Wouldn't expect "Arsenal humour and banter" man to grasp this.
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Look how well Ruben Dias played last night after plenty of questions about his form. Look how well Harry Maguire played for England while the sky was falling in at United.
John Stones.
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@mcandidate
The delivery of "big matriarch" as if he's listing a "top, top player" is just exceptional.
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A scandal that he was allowed to play on after this, even for a couple of minutes. Football is still so unserious on this stuff. It's really dangerous.
Everyone were panicking and arguing while Bernardo putting Eddie in a recovery position
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Guardiola: "I would say Steve Bruce, do not pay too much attention to the comments. It is bullshit."
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Crewe Alexandra (h), Boca Juniors (a). Magical.
#ManCity
would get a spot in an expanded 2025 Club World Cup under FIFA’s plan to use coefficients.
[via
@martynziegler
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Pablo Zabaleta just tried to make it quietly back to his hotel
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Me trying to persuade the lads to go for a few in the beer garden.
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One person singing that Bobby Charlton stuff is one too many. But back page coverage for what appeared to be half a dozen little toerags singing their shite in the concourse at HT for TikTok clout feels mad. Likely to cause more problems than it solves seven days before a derby.
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Marcelo Bielsa dressed as Che Guevara on the wall, obviously.
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The question the
@FA
must answer is what exactly qualifies someone as "a conscious racist" if this doesn't?
An absolute disgrace. Shameful.
The FA has revealed a string of offensive racial remarks by John Yems but still concluded that the former Crawley manager is "not a conscious racist".
Warning: The below copy contains language of a racist and discriminatory nature.
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If Gvardiol signs before Laporte leaves, City will have 16 senior outfield players and six of them will be centre-backs.
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This sort of micro-analysis sounds cool but is gibberish. Ruben Dias, Aymeric Laporte, Nathan Ake and Manuel Akanji all play for City. John Stones is their best centre-back.
The way John Stones reacts to how situations develop in the penalty box hasn’t changed much since the Croatia game in the 2018 World Cup. He is still a level below the elite CBs in the sport.
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Honestly, rein it in. The UAE's vote at the UN is an embarrassing disgrace. The City players were showing support for their mate who is clearly heartbroken by a terrifying and ongoing tragedy. Both these things can be true and you've not landed some sort of spectacular gotcha.
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Some highlights from a visit to the "Like the Gods" football exhibition in St Petersburg today.
Diego Maradona looking in better shape than earlier this week
@OmnisportNews
@OmnisportWC
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Vieira cited Jorginho being able to get on the ball more in the second half as key. Palace shut him down very well in the opening period.
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Feel very lucky to have watched a lot of Raheem Sterling and written a fair bit about him during his City career. Did this on the eve of the Euros final last year. A quiet warrior of a footballer, an inspirational bloke. Chelsea have got a belter.
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Noel Gallagher helping to design the City 4th kit.
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Premier League far from done, but I get it. I also get objections to state ownership, concerns over 115 charges and competitive balance. But trying to claim City fans are "plastic", "soulless" or anything else other than people having the time of their lives is a waste of energy.
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As it happens, heading into tonight, Haaland has played the exact number of PL, UCL and FA Cup minutes in 2022/23 as Aguero did in his fabulous 2018/19 campaign. It makes for quite the comparison
@sn_footballclub
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You imagine Joshua Kimmich is one of those chaps who is admirably and irritatingly brilliant at absolutely everything he does
#AUSGER
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Absolute scenes in Nantes v PSG as referee Tony Chapron kicks out at home defender Diego Carlos, who then earns a second yellow card for what looked like entirely understandable complaints
#nantespsg
#Ligue1
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Dyche on Haaland: "He doesn’t think about scoring trendy goals, whippers, dippers, clippers. He just smashes it."
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Lots of replies to Will's (very good) piece saying "what a fairytale lol". But in fairytales, the toiling protagonists are usually granted unimaginable fortune out of nowhere.
By all means have issues with the nature of City's success. But try to learn what fairytales are.
Manchester City’s 25-year journey from York to the Club World Cup
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If an 11-year-old is brandishing a knife… is it ok to taser them?
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Luke Shaw made his England debut in 2014. Tonight will be just his 14th cap.
There are loads of great stories in Gareth Southgate's squad, but Shaw coming through all the injury strife and his Mourinho ordeal has been lovely to watch.
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Find this focus pretty odd at the moment. From February until the end of last season, I've never known the Etihad louder. I know, your team's winning everything and you're cheering - have a sticker. But it felt like the fans were more important than at any other time under Pep.
🔵 Pep Guardiola's message to City fans: "We won a lot, and in the future understand this is an exception. It’s not normal to win the Treble, five PL's in six years".
"Continue to enjoy but when the bad moments are coming this season, or next, you have to be there".
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Get these horrible, knuckle-dragging racist scum bags out of my city forever. Not welcome here. Never have been. Fuck off.
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Absolutely dire seeing this from some City fans. It's obviously a minority but it turns my stomach. One fan singing this shit is one too many. The club need to come out hard against it.
Just 6 months after ruining the silence for Hillsborough Manchester City fans are singing “the sun was right, you’re murderers”.
Unless we share this they’ll get away with it. Let’s make sure sports media talks about this!!
@SkySports
@talkSPORT
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It's pretty galling to see token nods towards youth and working-class culture to promote a very expensive football shirt at a time when young and working-class fans are being priced out of the game by City and other Premier League clubs.
0161... that’s Manchester Calling 📞
Introducing the 24/25 Man City x
@pumafootball
Home Kit 🙌
Shop now 👇
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I know plenty about Guardiola's selections depends on the opponent and the type of game he's expecting, but if De Bruyne and Alvarez can start together in attacking midfield then De Bruyne and Foden absolutely can.
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Jack Grealish with an overlapping, left-footed left-back outside him is it? Well...
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If Sterling has decided he wants to go, then fair enough. But of all the forwards whose contracts end next June, I really think he's the one City need to keep. Gives them something no other forward does in terms of his intelligent running and general relentlessness.
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So there's another article that supposes to know how City fans feel, making judgements on that.
Last year I covered the treble win, spent time with fans in Istanbul and spoke to plenty. Wild. Should have rifled through some mad Twitter replies, I guess.
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"Pump it up to Lukaku, get bodies around him."
Smithers, I'm beginning to think Steve McManaman is not the brilliant tactician I thought he was.
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@Tcaffair
I think it comes back to the old thing of if a player wants to leave Guardiola can let them. Frustrating at times but can't argue with the overall results. Just find it mad a club in Europe couldn't make it happen for him. He's magnificent.
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Signing off a season of Manchester City coverage for
@sn_footballclub
with this, one the sound and chaos of a wild few days. From Navizade Street to Oxford Street and a triumph both absolutely inevitable and totally improbable.
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This is good by
@Knox_Harrington
and I think this bit here gets to the nub of why the Jordan Henderson thing is so profoundly fucking rubbish
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Mahrez: "He is very good on the floor, De Gea. So I hit it high, it hit his face and went in."
Sometimes saying exactly what happened is the funniest thing.
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Marcelo Bielsa on Guardiola's influence on Arteta: "Anyone who is a colleague of Guardiola has additional value. Guardiola is the best manager in the world and as a great manager he distributes responsibility to his staff."
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Nail on the head. Football fans only ever a reflection of the society they're drawn from. And this country right now, man...
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If City end up winning a few pots in May (feels like a fairly big "if" on current form), the "how can anyone compete with City?!?!?!" folks will forget all about games like that. An almighty slog. Bournemouth are relentless under Iraola, really good side.
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Vital point that Raheem Sterling makes about the horrid double-standards of certain publications and the consequences of them.
On his abuse at Chelsea, he "don't expect no better". That's just heartbreaking.
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I remember my aunty loudly wanting Villa to beat City in 1993 so United didn't win the league (went well). I was six and thought it was bizarre but let's not pretend this is some sort of new phenomenon. It's decades old patter through a means of mass communication on steroids.
The Spurs/arsenal v Man City stuff is the final triumph of banter culture. This is what it’s going to be like when there’s finally no sport left just a series of exhibitions you can bet on and some YouTubers reacting to stuff afterwards
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It's been an honour working as Fan Brands Editor for
@ManCityMEN
for the past seven months but I'm moving on.
Here's my final piece about, well, all sorts. Being a City fan and a journalist, the absolute joy, the grim stuff and ways to engage with it.🧵
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I've seen a lot of this and it's driving me pedantically mad. They have not REMOVED the embargo, they've moved it forward 15 minutes.
🚨🚨| BREAKING: The Premier League has REMOVED its team news embargo.
Which means that the Premier League will now announce starting XIs 75 minutes before kick-off instead of one hour, starting next season.
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Alternatively, it's the correct interpretation of the rules as they are now. Also, how do Manchester City players Josko Gvardiol and Mateo Kovacic fit in with this braingasm?
Happy to explain. Michael Oliver was paid to go the UAE in September 2023 by the owners of Manchester City, then on the payroll in a league with ties to them. He was the referee here & the player involved who should have received a red card, why it's Rodri of Manchester City.
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Thought Zack Steffen was very good today.
The absolute fear of anything happening to Ederson isn't there anymore. For what Guardiola needs, he's a cut above the version of Claudio Bravo that rocked up at City.
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Bit special going to the Maracana for
@nataliejbowen
's first and probably last football game yesterday.
Flamengo gave Fluminense a going over. Two goals for Uribe, Everton Ribeiro excellent. To a man, Fluminense were absolutely village.
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Back to work today, so I'm telling everyone to stop having fun.
Not really, but some of the "wow, isn't he fun/raw?" chat around Darwin Nunez has been weird. He's an £85m striker who was one of the most feared in Europe and should be doing better.
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So, I've deleted a tweet that caught fire in a particular corner of this website. Honestly surprised that getting COVID and deciding not to go and work in a crowded media room and mixed zone tonight is viewed as some sort of mad woke mob move. But, you know, crack on.
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Rank sense of entitlement from United fans booing their team for having the temerity to be 2-0 down to the best team in the Premier League right now. Or is it okay because they have a grand history and a nice new English shareholder?
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Some really excellent Bertying from the Real Sociedad account here.
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@LfcMusings
Thanks "Can't-Stop-The-Klopp". Appreciate your impartial take on my impartiality.
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Unused sub Kevin De Bruyne being put through his paces post-match at Goodison.
@sn_footballclub
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What's so disingenuous about the "you'll be giving them every week" chat is that if Rodri hadn't been awarded a penalty, the non-penalty incident would probably have been their first item of discussion on this segment.
"It's a foul anywhere else on the pitch, Dermot..."
🗣️ “You can’t say it’s not a foul.”
Dermot Gallagher on the Rasmus Højlund challenge on Rodri which led to a penalty for Manchester City. 💭
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Atalanta probably playing the most attacking and exciting football in Europe, while Inter came from 2-0 down to win a rip-snorting Milan derby 4-2 on Sunday.
But you crack on, by all means, Captain Caveman.
"We're all well aware that the Italian style of football is very negative." ❌
"He will go and change that completely." ✅
"He will transform Juventus in terms of the way they play."
Sam Allardyce has his say on a possible move to
#Juventus
for Pep Guardiola. 🇮🇹
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You'd like to think that Martin Keown hoping the Ukraine crisis "doesn't amount to anything" will really give Vladimir Putin pause for thought.
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That City's worst-ever team wore their best-ever kit will never not be beautiful.
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Imagine turning up to Southampton in an away kit where you can't see each other properly. Can't imagine any team from Manchester has ever done that before.
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Last season, City were W7 D1 L6. against teams playing 5-3-2.
This season, they're W13 D2 L1
Ahead of facing Wolves, who beat Guardiola's side twice with a 5-3-2 in 2019-20, I tried to get have a look. at what's changed.
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The Mail on Sunday is getting out the kind of graphics normally only used for a bombing raid on a Middle Eastern country
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