City were on their way to making it back-to-back wins in the Champions League this season but Dier’s nerveless, last-minute penalty salvaged a draw for Monaco.<\/p>\n
Guardiola’s side are unbeaten in their last six games, but a worrying trend is beginning to emerge of conceding late goals.<\/p>\n
They have conceded eight times in all competitions so far, but half of those have come at crucial periods in each half.<\/p>\n
23 August: 2-0 home loss against Tottenham after conceding in the third minute of injury-time in the first half<\/p>\n
31 August: 2-1 loss at Brighton after conceding in the 89th minute<\/p>\n
21 September: 1-1 draw at Arsenal after conceding in the 93rd minute<\/p>\n
1 October: 2-2 draw at Monaco after conceding in the 90th minute<\/p>\n
It means City have dropped three points in the Premier League after conceding in the 89th minute or later – which would have seen them on level points with second-placed Arsenal – and a further two in the Champions League.<\/p>\n
This was also a missed opportunity to put right their recent poor away record in Europe, now failing to win their past five games on the road in the competition.<\/p>\n
The result follows on from last season’s disappointment of not winning a major trophy, being knocked out of the Champions League at the play-off round and finishing third in the Premier League.<\/p>\n
“You wouldn’t panic,” former Manchester United midfielder Nicky Butt said on Match of the Day. “Everyone wants to win their games and get the adulation of what a great team you are but it is not normal to keep doing it year on year.<\/p>\n
“Man City have done it for so many years but they are having a bit of a struggle over the last couple of years. They have players who can turn games and win you big competitions and trophies.<\/p>\n
“They will be there or thereabouts, they just have to get the squad together and be fit coming in to the new year.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"City were on their way to making it back-to-back wins in the Champions League this season but Dier’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-173978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}