The last sentence here is a concern. As soon as Bournemouth scored it became stodgier and City found it more difficult. Maresca feels like a coach who, like many modern coaches, focuses a lot on breaking lines with in-possession routines but when the other team sits in more there might be issues.

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This time O’Reilly dummies the bounce pass back to Guehi and goes himself. Game state, with Bournemouth sitting off more after their goal, meant there were fewer deep build-up opportunities like this later in the match.

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The people who are obsessed with Hasan Piker — pro and con — really refuse to believe that the vast majority of us do not give the slightest shit either way.

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If we’re selling Gonzalez and keeping Kovacic it’s a big red flag for ‘but the problems he’s trying to solve may be out dated’ for me. Not what I think we should be doing personally.

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Are you not concerned?

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