Loss of urgency, LEWIS lack of care and a huge 82 drop off in form killing City's season

SHORTLY after Cody Gakpo had opened the scoring amid more abject defending from Manchester City, Phil Foden had to receive treatment for a knock to the knee.

- ANDY DUNN

During the break in play, Kyle Walker animatedly approached a few team-mates, presumably to try and rev them up, give them a telling-off, or whatever.

They did not look interested.

This is a City side that is having a season off.

This is a City side (right, Erling Haaland looking dejected) that has lost its sense of urgency. Perhaps that is what winning the title four times on the spin does to players.

And with a lack of urgency comes a lack of care. The champions have probably misplaced more passes this season than they have over the duration of the previous four.

While it is a touch understandable, the drop-off is still startling. City have won the Premier League in six of the past seven seasons yet, for at least half-an-hour, they were probably as poor as any side that has visited Anfield this season.