Manchester City’s January just keeps getting worse. They are now out of the FA Cup as well as five points behind Chelsea in the league, they have not won any of their last three games and their next appointment is at Stamford Bridge for what looks like a title decider. Chelsea may have been equally unimpressive at home in the Cup, though José Mourinho made nine changes against Bradford. The worry for City is that this was more or less their strongest side and when the tie finally got going they were outplayed by Middlesbrough, who showed exactly why they are riding so high in the Championship.
City spent most of the week in Abu Dhabi to get the horror of losing at home to Arsenal out of their system with a few days of warm-weather training, only to find their possession game once again being blunted by another determined defence. Manuel Pellegrini admitted his side had not been at their best against Arsenal – “we had plenty of possession but just didn’t use the ball well enough” – and in the first half against Middlesbrough it was more of the same story.
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