Manchester City's defence has been heavily criticised by former England star turned pundit Alan Shearer after the club's first defeat of the 2019/20 Premier League season at Norwich City.
“It was an absolute horror show defensively," Shearer told the BBC. "Starting with a set-piece again, zonal marking, (Kenny) McLean has a run at them from the edge of the box. Rodri, (Raheem) Sterling, (Kyle) Walker, their position is all wrong, they don't know he's coming in there and not one person attacks it. They don't move. McLean has run from the edge of the area and before Rodri moves, it's too late.
“What is (Nicolas) Otamendi doing for the second goal? He gambles and it fails. They're all over the place, Walker should be five yards further up and (John) Stones thinks he's going to play him offside.
“They get away with one because (Teemu) Pukki scuffs his shot wide but 30 seconds later they're in again. Otamendi has a look before he receives that ball and should know that (Emi) Buendia is there. That has to give the rest of the league encouragement.
“City's weakness is from set-pieces. From 29 goals conceded, 16 have been from set-pieces. That's 55.2 percent of them. They're miles away.”
Yemcdilmty
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very poor defending yesterday..
city players played like a £ 6.45m value player...
Yemcdilmty
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our defence will surely cost us... otamendi stones combination is not working...
agreed bro.. with these type of defenses we'll sure can't defence our EPL title.. we MUST get a strong and hardworking CB.....
cby10
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Horror Show?? ...It was disastrous...
fauopsuy
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Shut up Shearer City lost 1st game. What's your problem?? it's not the end of the world. Liverpool will be next so you're not happy again? Jeeeez!!! Just mind you own business.
kosbmptu
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Messi is supposed to win the world cup with otamendi and fazio in defense...
basketballer
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I don't want to talk about this topic Now. What Happened, it Happened. Now, We should move further by Learning and Analyzing the Mistakes we made, and keeping in mind that not to repeat them again
joabdlmrt
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spurs 2 shot 2goals.. Norwich 3 shot 3 goals..something should change if city want win pL 😒
sori we r winnx alrdy. they r humans n nt machines. to remind u we got a prob of height kk
joabdlmrt
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why did u leave New castle? if nt of Poor performance
TheKingKun
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a great weekend
Liverpool won bro😀
Picalnrty
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I think Shearer is more than right.they can easily conceded goals from set pieces and also difficult for city to score corners.hw u can get over 30 corners and fail to score even a single goal.
katchouuu
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spurs 2 shot 2goals.. Norwich 3 shot 3 goals..something should change if city want win pL 😒
TiyanjaneChalamwendo
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our defence will surely cost us... otamendi stones combination is not working...
Coubcilotz
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a great weekend
Yibdelprs
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very poor defending yesterday..
They looked like a kid playing football not a mega-money paid players OMG
Yibdelprs
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Mega money paid the players being so sloppy on the pitch hahaha
lezcmruyz
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That's legend "Alan Shearer" have spoken, nice one sir
Henryrukis
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THIS IS LAPORT EFFECT.
Chisom21
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very poor defending yesterday..