

Gary Neville, a former Manchester United defender, has criticized Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola’s team selection against Arsenal. Neville believes that Guardiola’s decisions contributed to City’s second-half collapse, resulting in a 5-1 defeat.
The game was level at half-time, with Erling Haaland canceling out Martin Odegaard’s early goal. However, Arsenal dominated the second half, scoring four more goals through Thomas Partey, Myles Lewis-Skelly, Kai Havertz, and Ethan Nwaneri.
This defeat marks the fourth time this season that Manchester City has conceded four or more goals, the most ever in a Pep Guardiola-managed campaign.

With Rodri, Ederson and Ruben Dias out injured, Guardiola opted to leave Kevin De Bruyne on the bench.
Mateo Kovacic and Bernardo Silva started in midfield, while Phil Foden and Savinho flanked Haaland in attack.
“If this was another manager would be sat there saying: are you sure Bernardo Silva and Mateo Kovacic will work against Arsenal, who’ve got Martin Odegaard, Declan Rice and Thomas Partey? They’re energetic and got real quality and power.
“I think to actually give them a chance, maybe you pack that midfield with three or four players in there and maybe it’s numbers – and then to add to that.
“But he played Phil Foden out on the wide right, Savinho on the left, who I thought blocked Josko Gvardiol going forward the whole game, and Omar Marmoush, who actually I thought done really well playing from off the left side last week against Chelsea, making those runs in a position off Erling Haaland where there was no space.
“So I just thought maybe today Pep Guardiola got his team selection wrong,” Neville told the Gary Neville Podcast.
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