Man City vs Liverpool: How Pep Guardiola can use the new Omar Marmoush weapon to harm Premier League leaders | Football news

“Only the beginning”. Omar Marmoush’s position on X after his impressive hat against Newcastle last weekend had multiple concepts. He announced his official arrival in the Premier League. But more than that, it became the symbol of Manchester City’s younger chapter. The latest remodeling of Pep Guardiola.

Marmoush was destined for the club’s hierarchy as a player who could make a direct difference. A round forward to compete the best in Europe.

Even before his 3rd 4-0 thrashing of Newcastle-one of the most impressive individual performances of 2024/25-his immediate and smart movement with delayed arrivals in the box had caused many problems during a 3-1 victory over Chelsea.

Its energy and dynamism were a welcome, though rare, a source of joy in the midst of the MAN’s reduced period of Man City. Their dramatic recession could have a strong armed action in the January window, but whatever the way is £ 60m in terms of Marmoush is rational, it looks like a smart business. This was not a panic market.

The 26 -year -old, who enters his peak years, is one of the few players without physical exhaustion and mental scars that seem to plague the other Guardiola Browbeaten champions. Marmoush looks fresh, with unused talent, capable of loosening the weight and carrying it.

Forward will be an obvious cause of concern for Arne reception as it prepares a Liverpool game plan to Etihad on Sunday, Live On Sports. A concern for Trent Alexander-Arnold as well.

Marmoush can drine 1V1, use the instinctual combination game and fast switch, run out or hug the touchline and has already hit a good work collaboration with Josko Gvardiol under the left. The city’s choices to go soon or long – or somewhere in between – have increased exponentially.

Michael Wimmer, one of the former Marmoush coaches at VFB Stuttgart, prescribed Sports Earlier this season that the Egyptian international has excellent “orientation skills”. What he meant was the ability to resolve and adapt the problem regardless of how opposition groups were created. It can play between the lines, in tight areas or take advantage of the space back.

His flexibility is likely to be the factor that made him so attractive to Man City. Erling Haaland scored 19 Premier League goals this season, but often cut a secluded figure. Phil Foden, a shadow of his former self, has flown to seven, but the weight was to carry Haaland. Needed help.

Get the most recent victory of the city in Newcastle as the perfect example of a lighted cargo. It was the first Premier League game this season, in which the city did not give a great opportunity, and their expected goals faced (0.48) was the third-fewest of the campaign.

Marmoush got four shots and scored three of them, from a 0.71 xg value. He was the most inflated (3) player in the match and broke a very experienced Kieran Trippier in pieces, adding much more shade to the city’s game.

The variety was evident in its finish, while a Midfield Masterclass by Nico Gonzalez helped stabilize and provide a platform from which it would be manufactured.

How could all this help this Sunday? Well, the PEP has now been recreated with the ability to deal with problems. The city had their wings to cut this year – with the loss of Rodri, defensive injuries and the mental pressure of relentless expectation – but the appearance of the other superstar of Egypt is a salvation. Mo Salah may need to share his projector.

“Nothing is eternal,” PEP said on Wednesday after crash from the Champions League in the early spot for 12 years. “It’s the year we are the worst.” But while their exit to Real Madrid will hurt, they can also act as a relief. This city team, so early in its last development, will not win Europe’s elite competition this season.

Why extend the process?

Haaland’s absence – an unused substitute in Bernabeu – was definitely accepting this.

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All hope has not been lost in the Premier League, though. Since Christmas only Liverpool and Arsenal have won more points from Manchester City.

The rivalry can bring less risk to this opportunity, as the hosts have long been in addition to the title race, but it still matters. The city would get a great deal of pleasure from placing a Lepulo in the championship leaders’ championships to steal their crown, as well as to undermine any proposal that Liverpool Slot has the credentials to compete with the domestic domination of the last five or six years.

The Reds are in the middle of an energy route – five games in a fortnight.

The last eight league games could have seen them stretch their undefeated course at 22, but have dropped eight points in the process.

They were used in a tie at the home of the racing Man UTD on their first 2025 excursion, came from behind to secure a point in Nottingham Forest, scored twice in stopping time to beat Brdford and run near Bournemouth and then Wolves last weekend, in a second half, where they failed to have only one Plan – the wolves had 10.

Is Slot’s reluctance to rotate with him? Alexander-Arnold is one of 10 players to start seven or more of the eight games of his side league from the year’s series. His reluctance to defend 1V1 is also a problem given Marmoush’s immediacy and ability to foul.

Youi Tielemans noted Aston Villa’s equalizer at 2-2 draw with Liverpool on Wednesday By peeling Alexander-Arnold, while Lucas Digne wandered freely under the left-back channel before standing a ball for Ollie Watkins scoring a second. He was atonement with the conclusion of the level, but was hooked shortly afterwards.

The opportunity is where Marmoush wishes to benefit.

The Pep is upset that he remains the right man to lead Manchester City to this new era. He continues to remind reporters that “we have achieved something unique in our country and in Europe”. And now with the right combination of time, patience and hiring, it is unmistakable that he can do it again.

Marmoush will undoubtedly prove to be a huge advantage in this process. How this helps here and now, but it will be examined on Sunday. Are we going to see the last twist in this exciting story?

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