Dusan Vlahovic and Weston McKennie scored to lead Juventus to a 2-0 UEFA Champions League win over Manchester City on Wednesday (Dec 11), a major blow to the English champions' hopes of clinching a top-eight spot in the group stage of Europe's elite competition. Man City, who lifted the 2023 Champions League trophy, continued a poor run of form which has brought only one victory in their last 10 games across all competitions.
Manchester City were plunged further into crisis on Wednesday after falling to a 2-0 defeat at Juventus which threatens their chances of reaching the last 16.
Second-half goals from Dusan Vlahovic and Weston McKennie were enough for Juve to inflict a seventh defeat in 10 matches on Pep Guardiola's struggling City.
English champions Man City languish in 22nd place in Europe's top club competition after having collected just eight points from their six matches in the revamped league phase. That leaves City just one point above the bottom 12 places and elimination, with matches against Paris Saint-Germain and Club Brugge remaining, a position that would have been unthinkable at the start of the season. But City have unravelled in less than six weeks and are way off the pace both in the Premier League and Champions League thanks to just one win, over Nottingham Forest, since the end of October.
The Citizens now have the Manchester derby at the weekend, hardly the sort of fixture they need in the midst of this dismal run from.
