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How Man City and Pep Guardiola embraced unexpected chaos in dramatic win vs Nottingham Forest
23.09.2023 - 16:53 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
You will have to go back a long way to find the last time Pep Guardiola picked a Manchester City team lacking the ingredient he usually treasures above all others: control. So perhaps it was fitting that by the end everyone inside the Etihad had chucked the shackles away and embraced the chaos.
This was the joy of six for City and the outpouring at the final whistle was euphoric. The perfect start in the Premier League continues but this was an afternoon that was much more difficult than it looked like being.
For 45 minutes, the attacking quartet of Phil Foden, Jeremy Doku, Julian Alvarez and Erling Haaland had taunted Nottingham Forest. Injuries forced Guardiola into picking an attack lacking that element of control he usually prizes, but instead this team roared out the blocks and left Forest in a spin. They were two goals to the good inside 15 minutes and should have added to that tally.
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Guardiola likes to have a forward who takes their time on the ball, slows the game down and lets the team get into the correct set-up. Doku, Foden, Alvarez and Haaland would rather go for the jugular and they were showing that chaos can sometimes be more fun.
But Rodri's moment of madness changed the flow of the game. His red card robbed City of the one player who is almost always in control. It forced them into a desperate 45 minutes but the roar that came a minute before 5pm signalled they had survived.
It didn't look like that guttural reaction would be required at 3.15pm. City's narrow attacking options posed Forest a problem from the start. Alvarez found space to turn and run at the defence inside a couple of minutes,
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