Manchester Metropolis’s beautiful hunch continued Saturday with a 2-1 loss to Aston Villa within the Premier League.
Targets from Jhon Duran and Morgan Rogers at Villa Park consigned the four-time defending champion to a ninth defeat in 12 video games. Pep Guardiola’s group has received simply as soon as throughout that run.
Phil Foden pulled a objective again for Metropolis in stoppage time, nevertheless it wasn’t sufficient to spark a late comeback.
Metropolis dropped to sixth within the standings — 9 factors beneath chief Liverpool, having performed two video games extra.
Metropolis’s outstanding fall reveals little signal of stopping, with Guardiola admitting final week that he had not been ok to show his group’s kind round.
Defeat meant his as soon as dominant group is and not using a win in any of its final eight away video games in all competitions. Whereas its title protection is unravelling, a spot within the prime 4 and Champions League qualification is also in jeopardy.
A sixth league defeat is Metropolis’s worst document for the reason that 2020-21 season.
Villa dominated the sport with Duran scoring his sixth objective in as many begins within the sixteenth minute from Rogers’ help.
Villa had a objective disallowed for offside within the second half and Rogers hit the submit earlier than doubling the house aspect’s lead within the sixty fifth.
Foden gave Metropolis a slim hope of salvaging one thing along with his objective within the third minute of added time.
