#1 Lyon’s EPL Template
It is not news that Manchester City are shielding victors of the Premier League, winning their title in such decided form last season, and breaking a large group of records to boot.
They have proceeded from where they left off this season, and are right now unbeaten in the alliance, holding a two point advantage on the standings.
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Quite a bit of City’s prosperity has been based on Guardiola’s guideline of keeping the ball and passing their adversaries into accommodation, and after two-and-half periods of totally stunning (exhausting?) football, most groups simply sit back, ingest the weight and expectation the scoreline does not look like a Basketball scoreboard come full time at whatever point they confront City.
In Lyon, City twice came up against an undaunted side resolved to give as much as they got and some more, first at the Etihad on matchday one when the French side enlisted a stun 2-1 win in a match which Pep missed because of suspension.
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By and by at the Groupama stadium, The Cityzens were on the backfoot, having to twice dig out from a deficit to rescue a 2-2 stalemate to affirm their spot in the second round.
Lyon were not hesitant to force their game on Guardiola’s side, routinely leaving Memphis Depay, Nabil Fekir and Maxwel Cornet forthright notwithstanding when City had the ball to give them assaulting channels, and this demonstrated monstrously advantageous as they continually constrained the ordinarily untested City safeguard into making mistakes.
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Lyon’s exhibitions over the two legs drove Pep Guardiola to portray them as one of the ‘hardest’ sides he has ever confronted, and this is no mean accomplishment thinking about the accomplishments of the Catalan.
Lyon played Man City unexpectedly for 180 minutes, and having turned out solid, this may fill in as a layout for other EPL groups to pursue (despite the fact that it is relevant to take note of that some who attempted it wound up on the less than desirable end of humiliating scorelines).
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