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BBC News
02-04-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Disaster strikes... yet again
Sometimes in football there are things you simply cannot Manchester City, that has happened over, and over, and over again across the past 25 years. This season has been no different, albeit in a varying version and away from the dramatics of the football Guardiola has had to battle a relentless conveyor belt of injury concerns to his biggest stars - from Ruben Dias to Kevin de Bruyne, Ederson to Jeremy ever present throughout that uncertainty has been Erling Haaland, who has managed to stay fit and record yet another 30-plus goal contribution campaign at a time when the entire squad seems to be is until now, and the business end of the season. A time when Manchester City need to put together a winning run of form - something that they are more than used to at this time of year - to secure themselves in the 2025-26 Champions League and perhaps even claim a silver lining in this campaign with the FA is the moment when the biggest stars would usually step up, but given the way this current crop of players are performing and reacting to adversity, nothing is off the more than ever, those in sky blue and white desperately need to stand in for their goalscoring phenomenon and provide the impetus in front of the net to make up for perhaps the greatest loss in terms of personnel so far this has suggested he has players with a "sense of goal" to stand in for Haaland, and a whole host of players spring to mind. Omar Marmoush, Phil Foden, De Bruyne... The list goes we even see a return of Ilkay Gundogan into a false nine role? In football, there are things you simply cannot more from Freddie Pye at City Xtra, external
BBC News
24-03-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
It's time to talk Phil Foden
When watching Phil Foden at the moment, it is difficult to enjoy in many are seeing a player struggling for form, playing without expression, and perhaps battling mental fatigue after some of the most remarkable seasons by the age of 24 ever many superstars in the game have won the number of individual accolades Foden has, before even taking into consideration the boatload of collective silverware he has played a vital role in under Pep he is the man many Manchester City fans will want the squad to turn to for a revival in form in the final weeks of the campaign to drive the club over the line in the Premier League and as far as possible in the FA is his club - he is perhaps the player who cares the most about it deep down because of his roots. In a time of real need, he is the one to carry us through a difficult end to a season that has brought about various challenges, not least for Foden it is a run of form in the centre of the park for City, or simply the providing of big moments in front of goal, fans will almost certainly look beyond the campaign endured by Foden as a whole if he can deliver when it really matters more from Freddie Pye at City Xtra, external
