Gvardiol deletes Haaland and denies Guardiola

• Guardiola Pep's stubbornness with Manchester Cit

The reliability of

's Manchester City continues this season under suspicion.

It contributed to this that he could not get past the draw at the Red Bull Arena against a Leipzig that was not intimidated by the English monologue of the first act.

The Croatian

, the best defender of the past World Cup, was not content with erasing

.

In the middle of the City blackout, the prodigious center-back climbed over Rúben Dias to deliver an accurate header to the ball that loads the tie with unknowns before the second leg at the Etihad.

And that given what happened in the first half, the coach

could only have to take out the rosary.

It did not go well for the German coach to distort his team in that first stretch and take away the joy of his players with the hope that, with a good defensive disposition, City would end up in a hurry.

But Guardiola's team rarely loses patience, as they spent the first half hour circling the ball from one side to the other as if, instead of a ball, the players had a pendulum tied to their boots.

It didn't matter then that Gvardiol controlled Haaland, with no space to take to the mountains.

While the Norwegian striker withdrew from all action, between

and

on one side, and

on the other, the Leipzig players began to arrive later and later for help.

control

, Rose's footballers, tired of running in their own cage, began to show concentration problems.

The 0-1 was nothing more than the logical consequence.

Schlager

, precisely one of the most reliable players in the construction of Leipzig, served a poor pass to

, his partner in the double pivot.

The mistake turned out to be fatal.

Grealish, in one of his few appearances at night, was alive in the robbery, and despite the fact that his transfer to

was improvable, he left Gvardiol in Babia, spreading his legs and letting the ball pass.

He came Mahrez, fine in the shot to the net and once again acting as a plunger for his team.

There are already 12 goals by the Algerian striker this season with Manchester City.

Guardiola's footballers did not know how to go much further, as they saw good chances go by to leave the tie resolved.

Without noticing that Leipzig, no matter how irregular his season in the Bundesliga is (he is fifth, out of the Champions League positions), would mount a rebellion in the second act.

Rebellion

Marco Rose left his fears in the dugout and sent his team to attack.

He was helped by the entry of

, much more offensive than

, and who had to percussion as a right winger despite his shortcomings in resolution.

In fact, Henrichs was around the tie twice before

's torpor .

After a tame shot with the head, the same winger had a duel in the sun against Ederson thanks to the privileged booty of

.

He crossed the wing too far with his shot, although the miss served to further embolden the Red Bull Arena fans.

A great strike from Szoboszlai was the preamble to Gvardiol's equalizing goal.

The Croatian central defender set out to crush rivals in the small area.

took root under the crossbar, and

now only had to claim a foul that neither the referee nor the VAR wanted to know about.

Beyond the fact that Gundogan was around City's second goal, the lack of responses from the English champion was surprising.

Guardiola did not even consider it appropriate to make changes to a team that is discovering the reverse of Haaland, sentenced to confinement all night.

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