Leon Osman
Former Everton midfielder on Football Daily

You know now that if you can get a bit of momentum in a game you can actually blow Manchester City away at the moment. They concede one, they look like their doors are opening.

It seems to be a mental thing. The game management does not seem to be there. Manchester City keep making mistakes or leaving an opportunity for the opposition.

So I think there is a chance of beating them at the moment, even if you have been battered for 75 minutes, I still think a team's mental attitude would be "if we can hang in here they will give us a chance".

Returning to that Manchester City trip to Liverpool on Sunday - former Everton midfielder Leon Osman highlighted a potential switch in mentality when facing the Premier League champions, following their run of six games without a win...

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he did not intend "to make light" of self-harm when he answered a question about scratches on his face.

City blew a 3-0 lead to draw 3-3 with Feyenoord in the Champions League on Tuesday and Guardiola was later seen with several scratch marks on his forehead during his post-match interview with broadcaster Amazon Prime.

Asked by reporters during his news conference about a mark on his nose, Guardiola made a scratching motion and said: "With my finger, my nail."

The 53-year-old then said "I want to harm myself" before laughing and leaving the news conference.

"I was caught off guard with a question at the end of a press conference last night about a scratch which had appeared on my face and explained that a sharp fingernail had accidentally caused this," said a statement posted on Guardiola's behalf by his official account on X and Instagram.

"My answer was in no way intended to make light of the very serious issue of self-harm."

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So what next for Manchester City? Well, league leaders Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday, of course.

We have had quite a few messages from Liverpool supporters on this subject. There seems to be two schools of thought - it's either the perfect time to play City, or the worst...

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Manchester City became the first team in Champions League history to be leading a match by three goals as late as the 75th minute and fail to go on to win.

For the first time in what was the 942nd game of his managerial career, Pep Guardiola has seen his side fail to win a match after leading by three goals.

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Chris Sutton
Former Premier League winner on 5 Live Breakfast

They [Manchester City players] just look a bit fragile at this moment and they are a team who are clearly lacking belief.

Can they recover overall? Maybe we’re at the stage where we’re looking at Manchester City and wondering can they recover that confidence?

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Kevin Parker, the general secretary of Manchester City Supporters Club, told BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast that the players looked to have lost their confidence and while he backed manager Pep Guardiola to help restore added that Sunday's Premier League game at Liverpool now looks to be "very difficult":

"This is a great football team, we’ve won four Premier League titles on the run...it’s unbelievable that a team of this experience just from nowhere seems to have completely lost its confidence.

"Last night was worse than any of the five defeats [that went before it] in that we were totally in control then we’ve gone from 3-0 to 3-3 in the space of 15 minutes.

"If there’s any coach in world football that could sort this for us, it’s Pep Guardiola, but the problem is we have Liverpool on Sunday and that’s going to be a very difficult game."

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• 23 Nov: Man City 0-4 Tottenham
• 26 Nov: Man City 3-3 Feyenoord

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Manchester City have conceded two or more goals in six successive matches in all competitions for the first time since May 1963 – during a season in which they were relegated from the top-flight.

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Andros Townsend
Former England midfielder on Football Daily

The defensive frailties, which we have probably not seen before for Manchester City, seem to be popping up in every single defeat or every single game they have played over the last six or seven.

It is probably down to individual errors as opposed to the structure they are playing. They are still controlling games like they normally do, it is just those individual errors at the moment which are killing them.

Leon Osman
Former Everton midfielder on Football Daily

Manchester City's recruitment [during Pep Guardiola's time at the club] has always been fantastic. They were bringing the next player through before you even knew who he was and they were hitting the ground running. They have not been able to do that of late.

They tried with Kalvin Phillips to find someone to replace Rodri - it didn't work. They brought in Savinho this season, who looks a bit like [Riyad] Mahrez but he's not. They brought in [Jeremy] Doku, who I don't think has hit the heights. Matheus Nunes was brought in for huge money - he is still developing but not ready to step into the first team.

So they are still demanding a lot of the same old players. For once in his time at Manchester City there does seem to be a bit of a hole or a gap there because all of the recruitment hasn't worked properly.

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Some good news for Manchester United and new head coach Ruben Amorim.

Centre-backs Lisandro Martinez and Harry Maguire are both in training today ahead of tomorrow's clash with Norwegian side Bodo/Glimt in the Europa League on Thursday night at Old Trafford.

Both have struggled with recent injuries and with Amorim set to stick with a three-man defence, having two centre-backs closer to being available again will only boost his options when it comes to team selection.

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Christian Norgaard's three-match ban, picked up following a red card for "serious foul play" while playing for Brentford against Everton on Saturday, has been overturned, the Football Association has confirmed, external.

"Christian Norgaard will be available for Brentford's next three matches following a successful claim of wrongful dismissal," said the FA in a statement.

Brentford won an appeal after Norgaard was sent off for a challenge on Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford. Referee Chris Kavanagh produced a red card having watched a replay of the incident on the pitchside monitor in the first half of the goalless draw at Goodison Park.

The Denmark midfielder will now be available to play in Saturday's game at home to Leicester, as well as Premier League matches at Aston Villa (December 4) and at home to Newcastle (December 7).

Simon Stone
BBC Sport's chief football news reporter

Manchester City's fans booed the Champions League anthem at the Etihad Stadium last night.

It has become normal practice and clearly is not going to change.

The reasons are extensive.

City supporters feel their club has been singled out by Uefa over a number of issues over the years, starting way back in 2011-12 when they ended up being fined more for returning to the pitch late during their Europa League campaign than Porto were in a previous game after Mario Balotelli and Yaya Toure were racially abused.

Then fans lost money on pre-booked trips after a Champions League game at CSKA Moscow was ordered to be played behind closed doors due to the behaviour of the Russian club's supporters - only for home supporters who were linked to local junior clubs to be allowed in anyway.

On top of that, Uefa fined City €49m for breaking financial rules - and then came a two-year ban from European competition over further financial breaches. This was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

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01 Dec: Liverpool v Man City (16:00) - Premier League

04 Dec: Man City v Nottingham Forest (19:30) - Premier League

07 Dec: Crystal Palace v Man City (15:00) - Premier League

11 Dec: Juventus v Man City (20:00) - Champions League

15 Dec: Man City v Man Utd (16:30) - Premier League

21 Dec: Aston Villa v Man City (12:30) - Premier League

26 Dec: Man City v Everton (12:20) - Premier League

29 Dec: Leicester v Man City (14:30) - Premier League