Wayne Rooney believes Manchester City’s squad is weak in Europe

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Amazon Prime Sports analyst Wayne Rooney believes Manchester City’s squad is weak in Europe and lacks the heart to suffer a 3-2 defeat to Real Madrid in the first leg of the Champions League play-offs yesterday.

City had a 2-1 lead going into the final 10 minutes of เล่นเกมคาสิโน UFABET ทันสมัย ฝากถอนง่าย the game but were held back by Madrid’s late strike and stoppage time, sending the Citizens to a 3-2 defeat and a disadvantage ahead of the second leg in Spain next week. 

Rooney believes the Citizens should have been more composed in the heated match. 

“A lot of City players looked weak, especially towards the end of the game,” said the former 2008 Champions League winner with Manchester United.

“The players looked at each other in confusion, as if they didn’t trust each other. And I think that’s something that Guardiola has to worry about.” 

“If you can finish the game 2-1 up against Real Madrid in the first leg, then going to the Santiago Bernabeu makes sense. You can say we went into the game defensively, let the opponent have the ball in their own half.”

“The inexperience is what you see from this Manchester City side, unlike the squad of two or three years ago that had a lot of confidence and belief.” 

“Even when Madrid came to the game with almost no four main defenders left, we didn’t hear Carlo Ancelotti complaining about that.”  

Madrid ‘s four backs from right are Federico Valverde , Olerien Chuameni , Raul Asensio , Ferland Mendy, the only two professional defenders.