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Manchester City players were astir each fixed a run-out successful the Club World Cup and immoderate fared amended than others.
Manchester City are retired of the Club World Cup earlier than they wanted to be. A last-16 decision to Al Hilal sent them packing aft the gully appeared to person opened up for them.
Beating Juventus 5-2 successful their last radical crippled saw them debar Real Madrid successful the last-16 and they dominated their Saudi opponents successful the archetypal fractional of their knockout game, lone to autumn isolated and suffer 4-3. It leaves Pep Guardiola and his players with plentifulness to deliberation astir arsenic they get immoderate unexpected remainder up of the caller campaign.
There tin beryllium plenty who tin beryllium happy with their publication implicit the past fewer weeks, enhancing their presumption wrong the squad. However, immoderate endured a hard fewer weeks to permission questions implicit their future. Here are the winners and losers from the tournament.
Bernardo Silva - winner
Bernardo Silva looked amended crossed the contention but his triumph is much down to his presumption successful the squad. Having entered pre-season arsenic a subordinate whose aboriginal was astatine risk, being made skipper by Guardiola has made him 1 of the astir important players.
The Portugal planetary has enactment an extremity to immoderate proposition that helium whitethorn permission and has been backed to play a cardinal relation this play - nevertheless overmuch helium features connected the pitch.
John Stones - loser
Guardiola apologised to John Stones aft the decision to Al Hilal, saying helium wanted to springiness him minutes but couldn't successful the circumstances. It near Stones arsenic the lone outfield subordinate successful the 27-man squad not to get immoderate crippled clip arsenic helium tries to travel backmost from injury.
Stones utilized his clip retired successful the United States to corroborate helium wants to enactment astatine the nine but by the clip the Premier League starts it volition beryllium six months since helium was past progressive successful a match.
Tijjani Reijnders - winner
The prime of the summertime signings, and astir apt the prime of the 2025 arrivals afloat stop. Reijnders looked decent connected debut and was fantabulous successful consequent appearances, settling rapidly into the broadside and looking immensely comfy successful the midfield.
Reijnders was the champion midfielder successful Serie A past twelvemonth and looked to prime up for City wherever helium near disconnected for AC Milan arsenic helium showed wherefore helium is seen arsenic the successor for Ilkay Gundogan. The little spell helium had alongside Rodri looked precise promising.
Nico Gonzalez - loser
Reijnders got the minutes that Gonzalez didn't arsenic helium was strangely overlooked again. It looked similar City had got a existent bargain erstwhile the January signing ran the crippled against Newcastle conscionable weeks aft joining, yet helium hardly played aft that.
Gonzalez started to get a fewer much chances towards the extremity of the campaign, yet successful the United States it was much clip connected the seat arsenic Gundogan, Reijnders and others were preferred.
Rodri - winner
It didn't extremity arsenic helium wanted, arsenic a substitute that had to beryllium taken disconnected successful the crippled against Al Hilal aft complaining of issues. Those are to beryllium expected arsenic helium works his mode backmost from superior injury.
However, the commencement against Juventus went amended than anyone expected and the full tourney should person brought him person to wherever helium wants to be. That has to beryllium a large affirmative for City.
Ederson - loser
It volition consciousness similar a triumph for City if Ederson stays and his comments astir not wanting to permission are truthful encouraging. However, it was a mediocre tourney for the No.1.
There was a slack extremity conceded against Juventus with a lazy walk and past helium didn't marque a prevention until other clip against Al Hilal arsenic everything went done him. The online disapproval helium has received since has been implicit the top, but helium volition cognize helium needs to bash better.
James French - winner
Not a player, but the caller set-piece manager has rapidly impressed the squad with the elemental mode helium has explained set-piece routines. More enactment is needed fixed the mode Kalidou Koulibaly recovered himself escaped from a country but it was a nett affirmative for the Blues aft they scored from respective dead-ball situations of their own.
Oscar Bobb - loser
City's standout subordinate successful the past pre-season was a footnote present arsenic helium was restricted to substitute appearances against Wydad and Al Ain. He did good to get a extremity against the Abu Dhabi broadside but different had to beryllium and ticker arsenic others were fixed opportunities to impress.
Bobb is different who would dearly emotion to enactment successful the squad but looks to person plentifulness of contention successful beforehand of him.
Phil Foden - winner
Despite the mixed container of a tourney for City, it has to beryllium seen arsenic a affirmative for Phil Foden. A subordinate who endured carnal and intelligence burnout past play to go a shadiness of the prima that was the champion subordinate successful England successful the 2023/24 season.
Foden looked to person a grin backmost connected his look and scored successful 3 of the 4 games, redeeming the champion until past with his superb decorativeness from Rayan Cherki's shot to equalise against Al Hilal. For the archetypal clip successful a while, it felt similar Foden was going to marque thing hap erstwhile helium got connected the ball.
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