Enzo Maresca rues Manchester City’s lack of desire after defeat at Nottingham Forest
After winning their first seven games of the season, Manchester City’s 3-1 loss at Nottingham Forest extended their poor run.
Key points
- ‘You need desire and intensity … we didn’t match them’ City have now lost three successive league matches Enzo Maresca blamed his side’s lack of desire and the way they were outgunned in duels for a third successive Premier League defeat.
- And Enzo Maresca remains a paradox, a manager obsessive about control whose teams always seem oddly susceptible to direct running.
- Jair Cunha dispossessed Josko Gvardiol to score the opener, then Liam Delap struck twice with muscular surges on the break as Forest won their first home league game since April.
Nottingham Forest may have been second bottom but, other than the twin curses of missing chances and giving away daft goals, they seemed to be playing reasonably well.
Manchester City may have won their first seven league games of the season but they always looked vulnerable, and now have lost three in a row.
Additional details
- Against this team, that is fighting relegation, if you don’t match them … it’s something we need to understand.
- In this kind of game, if you’re not able to win duels and second balls like in the first half, you struggle.
- Oliver Glasner, after last week’s anger, can breathe a little easier in his job.
- Liam Delap scored twice to remind people just what a good striker he can be.
- Put the two together and the outcome was a dramatic regression to the mean.
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