It's safe to say Manchester City's Champions League trip to Denmark didn't go to plan.
Pep Guardiola had seen his City side breeze past Copenhagen at the Etihad six days before, and felt that his squad had enough to record another three points at the Parken Stadium with a few changes including the resting of Erling Haaland. With a trip to Liverpool following on Sunday — an away game City have won just once since 2003 — appeared to take priority over Copenhagen.
As well as Haaland, Guardiola rested Bernardo Silva, Phil Foden and Ruben Dias. He will surely have hoped to give starters Joao Cancelo, Kevin De Bruyne, Rodri and Ilkay Gundogan a rest later in the game if they were as comfortable as they had been last week.
