Former Manchester City defender Bacary Sagna believes that his former side are too exposed to the counter-attack against opposition teams.
The Blues were given a wake-up call on Wednesday night when goals from Sekou Mara and Moussa Djenepo secured a shock victory for Southampton in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup. City were unusually sub-par against the Saints in a match that cost Pep Guardiola the chance to secure the quadruple.
Ahead of the Manchester derby on Saturday lunchtime, Sagna has claimed that his old team needs to be more wary of being countered and pointed to examples over the years of when City have struggled against sides who have sat back and hit them on the break. "Man City have not become worse defensively, they still have the ball a lot but they're getting caught on the break, that's what happens when you take risks defensively," he told Midnite.
