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Jamie Carragher says Manchester City are in a “huge crisis” and manager Pep Guardiola has “no answers” for it.
City’s terrible run of form continued on Wednesday night when they lost 2-0 to Juventus, a result that calls into question their hopes of qualifying for the knockout stages of the Champions League.
Guardiola’s side have lost seven of their last 10 games in all competitions, winning just once, in arguably the Catalan’s most difficult spell as a manager.
That’s as many defeats as the 53-year-old suffered in his previous 105 games as City boss.
And pundit Carragher believes the six-time Premier League winners don’t have the answers to get them out of the crisis.
On what Guardiola is thinking right now, Carragher told CBS: “‘Why did I sign that contract?’ That’s what he means.
“You can’t believe what you see. This is a huge crisis. This was a crisis two or three weeks ago. The greatest manager and the most successful manager probably of all time, and there are currently no answers to that question. It’s not.
“He tried different things, different systems, maybe players in different positions, and a manager as big as him is really, really struggling and finding it difficult.
“He’s never been through this before, so he has no experience with this situation. There’s nothing to look back on and really look back because he’s been so successful in the past. It’s a real eye opener.
“There are probably a lot of coaches around the world who actually look at Pep with a sour smile. He’s not enjoying what he’s going through, he’s just thinking, ‘finally, Pep Guardiola is going through something we’ve all been through at some point in our careers’.
Guardiola disagrees with Gundogan
Midfielder Ilkay Gundogan said after the defeat in Turin that City’s players were suffering from a loss of confidence, something his manager disagreed with.
I don’t agree with Ilkay, said Guardiola. “Of course it’s difficult, but apart from one or two games in this period, we played well.”
Next up for City is the Manchester derby at the Etihad Stadium.
Gundogan said TNT Sports: “That (trust) is a big part of it. It is also a mental problem.
You see that sometimes we miss the ball or lose a duel and you see that we immediately fall and lose our rhythm. They (opponents) don’t even need to do much, but it has such a big effect on us now. They are able to disrupt our rhythm with the smallest thing.
“Even more, you have to do simple things as well as possible and create fluidly, and then again you have to work hard. This is how confidence comes back – you do small and simple things, (but) at key moments in this moment we always do the wrong thing.”
