6/10 Man City Man is now Pep’s New Zinchenko

Pep Guardiola said after last weekend 1-0 defeat in the Nottingham Forest Manchester City The team has “ten finals” to ensure that he will play Champions League Football next season.

Well, we are not closer to discovering whether the Sky Blues will secure the first five after the first of these ten fixtures have created a downtime.

On Saturday afternoon, they will soon be drooping champions in Etihada 2-2.

They led twice, Erling Braut Håland converting an early penalty before Omar Marmoush Hit on top of halftime but the unhappy own goal of Abdukodi Khusanova saw seagulls Earn for the first time Premier league point in East Manchester.

On the eve of the international break, this draw emphasizes the defensive puzzle on the Guardiola team; Something to think, not only before the FA Cup quarterfinals in Bournemouth in two weeks, but also while citizens seek to configure their team in the long run.

Indeed, it looks like the former Barcelona chief may have discovered his next Olekandr Zinchenko…

Oleksandr Zinchenko Time in Manchester City

Zinchenko joined Manchester City from the Russian Premier League FC UFA For a reported fee of £ 1.7 million Back in 2016, a very unknown teenager at the time.

Immediately borrowed PSV Eindhoven, making 17 performances For Dutch giants, while the Phillip Cocu team finished the rock bottom of her Champions League group and came to third place in Eredivisie, so she’s not the best season at the Philips Stadium.

Upon returning to Manchester, everyone expected Zinchenko to be an offensive option, but Guardiola had other ideas, with More than 90% Ukrainian appearance for a club that comes to the left back.

Guard Described it on Left back as “important” for the functioning of the team, adding that it has “incredible quality”.

Meanwhile, Neel Shelat about breaking lines He believed that Zinchenko ‘The Progression of the Ball’ and ‘The importance in the buildup’ compensates for his ‘defense weakness’, James Robson from the evening standard described it as “extraordinary” while Ukrainian I admitted Left-deceased back may be his “best position”.

His performances are convinced Mikel Arteta bring it to arsenal For a reported fee of £ 30mand almost all of his 85 performances because the artillery came to the left back.

Does Guardiola face a similar puzzle, but vice versa, one of his full backs potentially better in the middle of the field?

New Zinchenko Man City

Rico Lewis’ Statistics from Saturday Draw with Brighton’s jump from the page, but not for the right reasons, losing 50% of your duels, giving up on possession ten occasions and contributing to zero keys. This has led to a match rating from 6/10 Simon Bajkowski from Manchester Evening News.

As noticed before BajkowskiLewis has been ‘fighting’ for consistency this season, used ‘rarely’ in recent months, and Guardiola admitted that he had exceeded the 20-year-old during the early part of this campaign.

Joe bray of menIn the meantime, he notes that Lewis’ ‘inexperience’ cost him against Real Madrid, while Jason Burt from Telegraph He believes his future could lie in the middle of the terrain, thus the next opposite transition to Zinchenko.

So, let’s compare how she went out in Manchester City’s career at Manchester City.

As the drawing table, Zinchenko mostly goes out to the top compared to Lewis, although the English international is only 20 years old, which means that the vast majority of his appearances have come as a teenager.

Still, the percentage of Lewis’ passage is currently outstanding ranked in common seventh In the Premier League this season in this meter, while his chance and defensive metrics are not too bad.

Nevertheless, his transient expert suggested that Lewis’s long -term future could be a midfielder, which is certainly something for Guardiola to consider forward.

Everything that is considered, finding the best position for England International proves something from the dilemma, as much as the aforementioned Zinchenko.