Sa Enzo Maresca ya ce cewa nasarar 2-0 ta Manchester City akan Porto a Champions League ranar Talata ta kasance "mai rikitarwa," ba shi karya ba. Ayyukan sun kasance ba cikakke ba, kuma Alan Shearer ya kai ga kiran ƙungiyar "mai rauni" yayin sharhi a Prime Video. Duk da haka, City ba ta taɓa kasancewa cikin haɗarin rasa sakamako ba — kuma a ƙididdiga, Porto ba su samu kusan komai ba, ba tare da yin harbi guda ɗaya mai guri duk dare ba.

Bouaddi ya yi fice a jaridu

Yawancin yabo ya tafi ga layin tsakiya na City, inda Ayyoub Bouaddi mai shekara 18 ya sanar da kansa cikin ɗaukaka a wasansa na farko na farko don kulob din. Sayan rani na £86 miliyan daga Lille yana da nutsuwa, da zabuwa — kuma abin da ya fi muhimmanci — bai taba firgita ba. Maresca ya yabe shi da himma a Prime Video:

"Bai taɓa firgita ba... aikinsa ya kasance ba ya yiwuwa a yi imani da shi."

Ko Erling Haaland, wanda ya ci sau biyu don tabbatar da maki, ya adana mafi girman yabon sa ga saurayin. "Na gaya wa shugaban [Khaldoon Al Mubarak], muna da lu'ulu'u a can," Haaland ya faɗa bayan karshen wasan. "Ya yi wasa mai kyau sosai. Ya kasance mai ban sha'awa a horon."

Daidaiton fasalin Bouaddi akan Porto ya kasance kashi 98 cikin ɗari — kaɗan sama da kashi 96 da Rodri ya rubuta don Barcelona a nasarar 5-1 akan Feyenoord dare mai zuwa. Samfurin ƙarami ne, kuma kwatankwaicin kai tsaye da Rodri na iya sanya nauyi mara adalci a kan duk wani ɗan wasa matashi. Nico Gonzalez ya san hakan fiye da kowa. Amma natsuwa da nau'in fasaha da Bouaddi ya nuna sun cancanci lura da su don kansu.

Anderson da Fernandez suka cika hoton

Bouaddi kashi ɗaya ne kawai na injin da aka sake tsara na Maresca. Elliot Anderson, wanda ya zarce Rodri a mafi yawan ma'aunai na ƙididdiga yayin kasancewa a Nottingham Forest kakar da ta gabata, ya shigo daga benci akan Porto kuma ya kasance misali na natsuwa — mai ƙarfi a riƙe ball, mai hankali ba tare da ball ba, kuma mai tasiri na daidaita komai a kewaye shi. Shi ne mahadar da tsarin Maresca ke juya a kan sa.

Enzo Fernandez yana ƙara wani girma daban-daban gaba ɗaya. Yayin da Bouaddi ya zauna a halitta a matsayin lamba 6 kuma Anderson yana aiki a matsayin lamba 8, Fernandez yana ba da sassauci na ƙaura zuwa rawar lamba 10 kuma ya ba da gaske mai kai hari daga layin tsakiya — gibi wanda ya kasance a City tun bayan tafiyar Ilkay Gündogan a karkashin Pep Guardiola.

Tare, ukun sun kai £326 miliyan jimillar. Wannan adadi yana buƙatar bincike, amma abin da ba za a iya saya ba shi ne sauri wanda dukkan ukun suka dace da tsarin sassauci na Maresca. Haɗin gwiwa tsakanin 'yan wasa yawanci yana ɗaukar lokaci; a City wannan rani, suna bayyana suna samuwa da sauri.

Old Trafford na jira

Mafi girman gwajin wannan sabon tsari na tsakiya yana zuwa a ranar Lahadi, lokacin da Manchester City ke tafiya zuwa Old Trafford don fuskantar Manchester United a wasan derby wanda ba kasafai yake rasa ƙarfi ba. An sa ran Maresca zai sanya Anderson a rawar riƙe tare da Fernandez a gabansa kai tsaye, yayin da Bouaddi mai yiwuwa zai fito — aƙalla da farko — daga benci.

Yana da wuri tukuna a cikin kakar, kuma Rodri — ya warke kuma ya koma jagorantar Barcelona — ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin manyan 'yan wasa na tsakiya na zamaninsa. Iyakokinsa na jiki a ƙarshen kakarsa a City, bayan rauni na ligament a 2024, na nufin ba zai iya wasa kowace kwana uku ba. Magadansa, kamar yadda alamu ke nuna, zasu iya. Manchester City ba ta buƙatar Rodri bayan duk.