Pep Guardiola: “We make a really good first half, second half we dropped,” City’s manager tells TNT. “We changed our pressing for the reason John [Stones] could not continue. Congratulations Aston Villa and keep going.
“In the mid-block they are so strong. We have good moments, we had chances, more chances than in the [Manchester] United game, but in the second half we dropped and our pressing was not good enough. We struggled a little bit and we could not drop them well. We found a goal in the end, but too late.
“We struggle to score and we concede goals.”
Aston Villa 2-1 Manchester City
Match report: “For Manchester City and Pep Guardiola, this was another painful destruction, an unthinkable ninth defeat in 12 matches for a team who have flipped from formidable to fragile and flat,” writes Ben Fisher from Villa Park.
