The banner that Real Madrid mocked for boycotting the Ballon d'Or of Protest at Rodri who won about Vinicius JR was the newest own goal in a season full of Manchester City.
The gigantic Tifo, who depicted Rodri who kissed the famous trophy, was accompanied by the message 'Stop to cry your heart' – a taunted at Real and Vinicius for their controversial decision to stimulate the ceremony. But the stunt – in which city was complicit by having the banner unraveled, despite the fact that it is contrary to their declared rules with regard to banners and flags – has failed spectacularly.
Real organized one of their famous late comebacks about the city to score twice and take a 3-2 lead in the decisive play-off return bone of the next Wednesday in the Bernabeu.
The defeat has abandoned the city with three games that can ultimately make or break a season in which their invincibility has been removed, so that they definitely look.
On Saturday host Newcastle, a fight between the fifth and sixth, where the defeat for the faltering side of Pep Guardiola would see their opponents above them, to further dent their hope for a top four finish. After that, the trip from City to Madrid, where few would bet against holders who are really at their expense, followed by the visit of Premier League leaders Liverpool at the Etihad Stadium.
Losing all three and season of the city can be effectively over, with only the FA Cup and a non-central scrambling for a top four place that remains to play this season.
Conversely, if City would defend the opportunities and all three would win, they would breathe new life into a Moribund season and prove their lasting quality, despite their recent struggles. But it is difficult to see that scenario that unfolds in the following three games, when the recurring theme has been implicated this term and has one unseen mental vulnerability so far.
They were of course not helped by injuries, with forced and long -term absence for players such as Rodri, Edelson, John Stones, Ruben Dias, Nathan Ake, Oscar Bobb and Kevin De Bruyne.
But the decision not to invest in the team last summer has turned out to be a huge supervision, just like the decisions to sign Ilkay Gundogan from Barcelona again and to keep Kyle Walker, who came to AC Milan last month, but who should have been repaid By City last summer. The failure to recruit a specialized right back to replace Walker was another huge blunder. Walker's fights with Vinicius In the past seasons were one of the fascinating subplots of the collisions between City and Real.
But with the English defender away, it was left to Manuel Akanji and Rico Lewis to deputize and try to limit the threat of demonstrably the best winger on the planet, with both predictably shortage.
City eventually spatted the money in January, their £ 175 million spending on four players almost as much as the rest of the Premier League spent in the window, but none of those new recruits were included in the startlin-up of Guardiola for To face real.
So is this the start of the end of the city of the city? The proof of this season seems to suggest that. Guardiola has registered for two more years and will be determined to rebuild his team one last time to turn the city into serial winners again.
But with Liverpool Op Koers to win the Premier League at a canter and really a timely memory of their unparalleled and sustainable family tree in Europe, Guardiola has to do it all to re -confirm herself as the biggest coach of modern times.
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