Manchester City’s crisis continues. It risks losing the Champions League spot

Two points in the last four games, with the risk of slipping to eighth place: Manchester City’s crisis continues after home draw 1-1 against Everton and Pep Guardiola the alarm sounds: at this rate even a place in the next Champions League could slip away.

“When I said it, people laughed, they said that qualifying for the Champions League cannot be considered a great success”, underlined the Catalan coach, “but it happened to other big clubs here, they dominated for years and then for years they didn’t qualify for the Champions League. The only team that has always qualified in the recent past is Manchester City but now we risk not qualifying.”

In the Boxing Day match City were held to a 1-1 draw at home by Everton who also wasted the opportunity to win in added time. The match started in the best way for the English champions, immediately coming close to scoring with Gvardiol (header off the post) and then taking the lead in the 14th minute with Bernardo Silva. In the 36th minute, however, Ndiaye took advantage of an error by Akanji and scored the equalizer. At the start of the second half Haaland had a penalty saved by Pickford. For the Citizens only one victory in the last 13 games played.