Manchester City’s flaws have been exposed but singular brilliance remains | Jonathan Wilson

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Carabao Cup exhibition against Manchester United offered a reminder of the potency of Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City, though defensive reinforcement would still come in handy

There was something almost refreshing about Manchester City’s performance in beating Manchester United in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday. Here was a Pep Guardiola side back to its best, passing and moving, a blur of a thousand midfielders confounding duller-witted opponents. Gone was the fragility to the counter that had enabled Marcus Rashford to eviscerate them in the Premier League at the beginning of December, and diminished with it was the thought that this might be a side in terminal decline.

 

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