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\u201cSacked in the morning\u201d was the ecstatic taunt from Tottenham fans aimed at Pep Guardiola when Pedro Porro\u2019s third was rammed in under a classic Mancunian downpour that had abated by the end of Manchester City\u2019s fifth consecutive defeat.<\/p>\n

The right-back prospered as Ange Postecoglou\u2019s men did all evening: by ransacking the champions who, despite Guardiola\u2019s defiance that he is up for arresting the slide, were clueless, as illustrated by Brennan Johnson\u2019s added-time fourth, when, for a countless time, City fell to the quick break.<\/p>\n

You have to go back to 2006 for the last time City suffered five reverses in a row. That dire run ended after six defeats and do not bet against Guardiola\u2019s iteration matching this \u2013 Feyenoord are here on Tuesday \u2013 as his famed tactical brain is drawing a blank and he admits to a \u201cfragility\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Before kick-off, Rodri\u2019s Ballon d\u2019Or triumph was honoured, the Spaniard presented in front of a huge neon sign that spelled his name in white bulbs. When he was injured against Arsenal in September, his manager vowed to solve the key absence from the No 6 role. At the moment Guardiola is failing.<\/p>\n

City had been careless in the four previous losses, lacking the ruthlessness that cuffs aside foes, and they were again. Three of the reverses were 2-1, the other 4-1, so of their total 41 goals in 17 outings in all competitions \u2013 22 in 11 league fixtures \u2013 four came in the defeats.<\/p>\n

This showed how the attack had dipped, while being breached 10 times told the defence\u2019s tale. To try to remedy the latter Guardiola drafted in John Stones and Manuel Akanji from the loss at Brighton last time out, with Bernardo Silva coming into midfield for Matheus Nunes, who was a substitute alongside the also-dropped Jahmai Simpson-Pusey, Mateo Kovacic absent through injury.<\/p>\n

But inside 13 minutes Spurs raided this reshuffled City pack. Dejan Kulusevski, after mugging Josko Gvardiol along the right, skipped infield and dropped the ball perfectly for James Maddison, whose run closed with a volley past Ederson.<\/p>\n

What followed from Gvardiol and for City was just as bad. This time the left-back\u2019s loose pass was collected by Maddison, who found Son Heung-min. The No 10 curved behind his captain to take a return for a one-two as sweet as the dink over the diving Ederson and that was a second on his 28th birthday. \u201cI will remember this one,\u201d Maddison said.<\/p>\n

Gvardiol scrunched his face in despair and Guardiola discarded his jacket. Before and after the goals, Erling Haaland\u2019s normal unerring aim was off, the No 9 missing the target completely or crashing the ball where Guglielmo Vicario or Ben Davies\u2019s legs could repel it.<\/p>\n

<\/svg><\/span>Pep Guardiola stands helpless on the touchline.<\/span> Photograph: Lee Smith\/Action Images\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

City, as per recent form, could not grip midfield and throttle the visitors. Instead, Tottenham were a flowing white wave, as when the unmarked Dominic Solanke tingled Ederson\u2019s fingertips from mid-range, as Son did earlier from the left.<\/p>\n

Spurs\u2019 4-2-1-3 posed City\u2019s narrow (and rare) 4-3-3 questions they struggled to answer, Guardiola\u2019s middle trident of Rico Lewis, Ilkay G\u00fcndogan and Silva his solution to Kovacic and Rodri being unavailable.<\/p>\n

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