{"id":87969,"date":"2025-11-25T21:37:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/city-falls-to-leverkusen-guardiola-and-failed-rotations-in-champions-league\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T21:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T01:37:34","slug":"city-falls-to-leverkusen-guardiola-and-failed-rotations-in-champions-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/city-falls-to-leverkusen-guardiola-and-failed-rotations-in-champions-league\/","title":{"rendered":"City Falls to Leverkusen: Guardiola and Failed Rotations in Champions League"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Manchester City stumbles at home against Bayer Leverkusen<\/h2>\n\n\nManchester City, led by Pep Guardiola, suffered an unexpected home defeat against Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League, a result that could have consequences for their strategy in the upcoming matches. Guardiola made ten changes to the starting eleven, a decision that did not yield the expected results.\n\n\n<p>After the 2-0 defeat against the German team, the Spanish coach admitted that the number of changes might have been excessive. &#8220;Perhaps it was too much, seeing the result. I take full responsibility. I like everyone to participate, but maybe it was too much,&#8221; Guardiola stated.<\/p>\n\n\nThe City coach was looking to give minutes to less regular players after the defeat the previous weekend against Newcastle United. However, this bet didn&#8217;t work, and Leverkusen took advantage of the situation to take the lead.\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Leverkusen, with a solid performance, knew how to capitalize on the opportunities.<\/li>\n<li>The changes made by Guardiola did not have the desired effect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\nIn the second half, despite the entry of key players like Haaland, City couldn&#8217;t come back. Leverkusen extended their lead, leaving City with a home defeat in the Champions League group stage, something that hadn&#8217;t happened since 2018.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Sometimes I like to be too kind and involve everyone. It didn&#8217;t work and I have to accept it.<\/p><cite>Pep Guardiola<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nGuardiola&#8217;s decision to change the team so much was disconcerting. A victory against Leverkusen would have eased the pressure ahead of the next match against Real Madrid. With this result, City will have to secure positive results against Bodo\/Glimt and Galatasaray to secure their place in the next round.\n\nPlayers like Rayan A\u00eft-Nouri, who made his second start since August, failed to stand out. A cross from his side allowed Leverkusen to score the first goal.\n\nThe result leaves City in a compromised position. Guardiola will have to rethink his strategy for the next match against Leeds United, where he will seek to avoid a third consecutive defeat.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F1126%2Fr1580810_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"Pep Guardiola del Manchester City\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\nAfter the match, Guardiola stated: &#8220;Now it&#8217;s Leeds. We still have three matches (in the league phase) and we&#8217;ll see what happens. I can&#8217;t anticipate what will happen in the future. We need to clear our minds and play against Leeds.&#8221;\n\nAfter the substitute players failed to make an impact against Leverkusen, Guardiola is likely to turn to his key figures in the next opportunity.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City stumbles at home against Bayer Leverkusen Manchester City, led by Pep Guardiola, suffered an unexpected home defeat against Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League, a result that could have consequences for their strategy in the upcoming matches. Guardiola made ten changes to the starting eleven, a decision that did not yield the expected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1380,270,1198,1200],"class_list":{"0":"post-87969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-bayer-leverkusen","9":"tag-champions-league","10":"tag-guardiola","11":"tag-manchester-city"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}