Plenty of Manchester City fans have been reacting to a post on Twitter which relays a report that claims Harry Kane’s perfect performance led to a dressing-room inquest at the Etihad.
There is no denying that Tottenham pulled off a near-perfect performance, with their defence keeping City largely at bay and Kane linking up brilliantly with Son Heung-min to exploit Pep Guardiola’s side on the counter.
However, it’s also true that City defended atrociously. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong, a worrying fact given that heading into the game they would have known exactly how Spurs would play.
The likes of Ruben Dias, Joao Cancelo and Aymeric Laporte have been fantastic this season but they must learn from some pretty chastening moments.
According to Mike McGrath via the Telegraph Sport, Manchester City players held a full-time dressing room inquest after the defeat to discuss how the Tottenham star had single-handedly destroyed them.
It’s claimed City’s players looked at the evidence and where they’d gone wrong. From that, it’s suggested a conclusion was that their biggest problem lay in deciding whether to follow Harry Kane as he dropped into the No 10 role.
Tye report was shared on Twitter by City Xtra and it attracted plenty of attention from the club’s supporters.
Yep. Whole game hinged on that one move. Not sure what the solution would be in regards to if the CBs should follow or not — but I think Rodri should’ve sort of bunkered down in that space Kane dropped into, more often. Sort of like a zonal marking.
— Umir (@umirf1) February 20, 2022
This is literally what happened in the 2-0 last year
— MCFC (@Pep_Kev_GOATs) February 20, 2022
Pep’s arrogance cost us the game, he makes the same mistake against Spurs, always pressing high, which is exactly what they want us to do, City lose the ball and Spurs efficiently hit us on the break with Kane to Son. sigh
— Nora (@cityznn) February 20, 2022
No need to glorify Kane. It was a bad day for us. If we played at our level, Harry Kane wouldn’t have touch the ball for more than twice or thrice.
— Sudipta Dash (@SudiptaDash49) February 20, 2022
They’ll fix this. Won’t happen again. Let’s go.
— Ngozulu 🇩🇴 (@ngozulumatondo) February 20, 2022
Rodri needs to learn to make tactical fouls like ferna.
Our defenders forgot to make a challenge and tackles yesterday. They were too scared to commit against son and Kane
— SCAR (@nowherecityy) February 20, 2022
True. The sad thing was that was Rodri’s worst game for months
— Viv (@viiivvvvvvvv) February 20, 2022
I’ve seen us lose 5 times this season and the 4 before this we played our normal game and just couldn’t take our chances but yesterday has to be our worse performance of the season..kept giving the ball away,lazy defending from all our defenders not just Laporte..but we go again
— hunter (@Zette791) February 20, 2022
Could’ve been a conversation to plan ahead for before the match but oh well. Learn from it and get back to form. Liverpool is coming.
— Trey (@Trey308) February 20, 2022
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