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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola chastised his players for not being brave enough in the midweek defeat to Bayer Leverkusen as the debate over his team selection rumbles on. Guardiola made 10 changes for the Champions League tie and the rotation backfired as Leverkusen won 2-0 at the Etihad to inflict on City a first home group stage defeat in seven years.

Guardiola had played the same XI for the three previous games and while there was a need to rotate given the upcoming schedule and City's decent position in Europe, the decision to retain only Nico Gonzalez for the visit of an in-form Bundesliga side prompted consternation on Tuesday night.

And those fears proved well-founded as the Blues struggled to impose themselves on the contest and, even after a triple half-time cha

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