Pep Guardiola has already hinted at Man City plan for Erling Haaland and Julian Alvarez

The brilliance of Pep Guardiola's Manchester City is that they are always one step ahead of their opponents, even if that opponent has 11 men behind the ball.

Sooner or later, City will break you down, wait for the mistake, and end any resistance. If a team dared to try and play them on the break, they will often use that to their advantage and exploit the space left to ruthless effect. Only a few teams have been able to successfully stop City from getting what they want.

Even without a striker for the best part of two years, City have turned a weakness into a strength, by getting more forwards and midfielders into the box to increase the chances of scoring. This most recent title win could be one of the most impressive under Guardiola given the tactical innovations he's had to find.

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However, as the rest of the Premier League look to catch City and end their five years of dominance, there have been previous signs that more and more teams have finally learned how to stop them. Look at 2019/20, when an injury-hampered City were no match for Liverpool as a quiet summer failed to help the Blues build on their back-to-back titles.

Three years on, and City are in the same position, having won two titles in a row and looking to make it three in the face of an ominous-looking Liverpool threat. City will discover the same thing they did in 2019 next year - that sides could be better prepared to face them because they have more experience of how they play.

So City can either trust that their players are more experienced themselves and have enough quality to look for a third title in succession, or they can change things up and look