Feyenoord unusual celebration adds to Liverpool FC taunt for sorry Man City

Manchester City are hurting.

These are strange times, on the back of an unprecedented run of defeats for Pep Guardiola and the heaviest home defeat the Etihad has seen. Feyenoord would have been seen as cannon fodder a few weeks ago yet they became the latest opposition to come to the Premier League champions and show that any aura of invincibility has disappeared.

The intent is still there from City, and it was another bright start with Erling Haaland unfortunate to see his header come back off the post after 10 minutes and Jack Grealish - starting for the first time since early October - even more unlucky when his goalbound volley was deflected wide by teammate Phil Foden. But a fragility exists underneath, and the longer City went without scoring the more the Dutch side grew into the game.

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Feyenoord fans had enjoyed their march to the game from the city centre and were happy to pour salt in City wounds off the pitch as they chanted for Arne Slot and sang You'll Never Walk Alone. That roused anger from the home ends and felt like another way in which the once almighty conquerors had been bumped back down to ordinary.

The signs were unmistakably there on the pitch again, with Ilkay Gundogan creative in building attacks but again dispossessed and bypassed too easily when he tried to prevent them. After half an hour, Ederson had to boot the ball aimlessly high up the pitch under pressure in a sight that can't be seen more than a few times a season but shows the struggle the team are battling through.

The next time the ball would be booted with