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I get where you’re coming from. The trouble is if you never put Baleba/Barco in these positions then how will they ever learn? You would hope that this is all part of their next day analysis. I would genuinely love to hear how RDZ envisioned that passage of play panning out. Shame journalists...

Yep. You can see from that still that Baleba has already decided to pass to Barco, which isn’t necessarily an awful move but it’s very clearly channelled - the City players know exactly what’s coming. If he instead feigns that pass and lets the ball roll, he buys himself time and opens up other...

Or a scanning issue. The elite players in that role are constantly scanning where the space is, where opponents are and where teammates are. Baleba’s physicality should have either enabled him to let the ball roll across him whilst guarding Foden off, or take a touch to move it away from him...