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Man City team is harder for Pep Guardiola to pick after difficult two hours

A few years ago, a home game against Leicester sparked major change at Manchester City. The defending was so disastrous in a 5-2 embarrassment that Ruben Dias was signed days later and immediately transformed the team.

There was a clear gulf in class on Saturday as the Blues went three goals up against the relegation-threatened Foxes. However, five changes from Pep Guardiola saw the game change completely in the final 30 minutes as the substitutes helped the visitors back into a game they should never have been in.

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That complicates things for the manager, who should find it more difficult to rotate as much as he was planning to for this match after seeing such underwhelming performances from those players. And it is made worse by the energy that Bayern took out of City in midweek, with every player looking particularly knackered as they made their way to the bus after a draining 90 minutes.

Guardiola's selection will be harder to make than it was before the Leicester game.

City can be happy that they avoided Brighton given the style and form of Roberto De Zerbi's men and the drama of a derby would also have been sapping. But even if Sheffield United are the easiest team on paper, these are exactly the sort of teams that have caused problems for the Blues in the past.

The Championship side are full of confidence, used to winning, and clear in their minds about their strengths and weaknesses and what they need to do as a team. City have had so much success under Guardiola by not underestimating their opponents, yet this will still be a tough test of that mentality.

City have fallen at this hurdle for the last three years.

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