On Tuesday
night, not even a massive dollop of good fortune to give them the lead
against Juventus could get their campaign off to a positive start.
Having
got the break, City then contrived a way to let it slip through their
hands, a horrid, ineffectual defensive display across the last 20
minutes that leaked two goals and asked questions of coach Manuel
Pellegrini. Namely: why did he remove his captain, Vincent Kompany after
the first went in? The official explanation was a calf injury, but he
didn’t seem in great pain, didn’t go down the tunnel for treatment,
didn’t sit on the bench with a large, visible ice-pack on a sore limb.
His
replacement, Nicolas Otamendi, then got rolled by Alvaro Morata for the
winner. So it’s the hard way again. Borussia Monchengladbach up next,
then a double header with Sevilla. City can’t keep blaming the draw
though. Not when the three substitutes they introduced came in at a
ballpark £120m. Sergio Aguero, Kevin De Bruyne and Otamendi. And still
they lost to what is basically a very upmarket selling club.
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