Man City flop 'couldn't get near' Spurs players as ex-Liverpool man slams 'elementary mistake'
Jamie Redknapp singled out Ilkay Gundogan as a unwell linkage for Manchester Metropolitan in their stun 4-0 defeat to Tottenham on Saturday.
Male Metropolitan’s 52-match unbeaten residence run run out in remarkable layout after purposes from James Maddison, Pedro Porro as well as Brennan Johnson without words the Etihad crowd.
Maddison racked upwards 2 purposes in the first 20 minutes to race the viewers correct into an early lead as well as they never ever peeked ago, revengeful Pep Guardiola’s side 2 times on the counter in the second fifty percent.
No Metropolitan gamer might grasp their head upwards after the embarrassing defeat yet former Liverpool midfielder Redknapp thinks Gundogan was one gamer that was introduced.
“Male Metropolitan are off it at the moment,” Redknapp enumerated on Sky Sports. “They are short as well as things aren’t quite clicking in midfield putting on that stability.
“Gundogan couldn’t acquire about the exchange today – he couldn’t acquire near any person as well as his focus wasn’t correct.”
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Gundogan was criticised during estimate of Maddison’s first ambition. The Proclaims midfielder ran freely correct into the box as well as converted at the ago short post from a sublime Dejan Kulusevski cross.
“What happens putting on Gundogan as well as Maddison is one of the the majority of stock contingents of midfield dabble,” Redknapp added.
“When someone runs without the sphere as well as they go in behind you just have to comply with your guy as well as Gundogan just renders one of the the majority of elementary miscues in football by not coordinating putting on [his man].
“With one voice he has to execute is mark that run yet [instead] he puts John Stones in a actually inadequate pose.
“Gundogan has to comply with that run as well as that’s a actually inadequate from him. He just couldn’t match Proclaims’ energy in midfield unanimously game.”
Maddison defined to Redknapp after the game how he detected the room to rating his side’s opening ambition.
“I assume I’ve actually rendered a few of them runs this season as well as obtained the sphere as well as not racked upwards. So it hasn’t been conversed about,” he enumerated.
“There have been times I’ve rendered that kind of left fifty percent-room run in which I situate myself putting on the midfielder pick me upwards, yet once I brimmed promptly, it’s favor they’re blurry that’s pick me upwards.
“As well as putting on the attribute Kulusevski has made out that left foot… I actually enumerated to him pre-game that once you incision in, kind for that inswinging cross virtually.
“It just discussed for the call, didn’t it? I didn’t yearn to try also much. I just discussed for to acquire a sweet call.”