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Manchester City thought the sleepless nights were behind them. On Monday, Josko Gvardiol described how he couldn't get his head down last season as everything around them unravelled in a winter of discontent. Pep Guardiola said he couldn't even eat, never mind sleep, as he worked out how to put the season back on track.

Things are nowhere near as bad 12 months on, but after back-to-back defeats to Newcastle and Bayer Leverkusen this week, alarm bells will just be beginning to ring for the Blues. They have now lost three of their last seven games in all competitions and have tasted defeat in just over a quarter of their matches last season.

This time last year, City had lost five in a row and were in the middle of a 13-game run that would produce just one victory. Nobody exp

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