A Champions League collapse against PSG tonight continued what has been a dreadful season for the Etihad outfit.
Paul Fennessy IN ONE sense, you could probably not think of two more antithetical characters in football than Pep Guardiola and the late Jack Charlton .Both revolutionised a team.
While the Englishman was long ball-focused in contrast with Guardiola’s emphasis on passing fluency, pressing and intensity were similarly integral to his approach. Advertisement Instead, Charlton ploughed on and stuttered through a poor Euro ’96 qualifying campaign. Despite all these setbacks, the Irish still made it to a playoff, but they were well beaten 2-0 at the neutral venue of Anfield by a superb Dutch team.Once-great players who had served the manager so well, such as John Aldridge, Andy Townsend and Paul McGrath were beginning to look their age.
The fact that Kevin De Bruyne was taken off for such a crucial game this evening and Ilkay Gundogan was initially left on the bench indicates how far both these City legends have fallen.
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