GUARDIOLA ADMITS TO MAN CITY STRUGGLES AFTER BODO/GLIMT EMBARRASSMENT

PEP Guardiola admitted Manchester City need to “change the dynamic” after their humiliating 3-1 defeat against Norwegian minnows Bodo/Glimt in the Champions League on Tuesday.

Guardiola’s span were blown away by Kasper Hogh’s first-half brace and a second-half strike from Jens Petter Hauge at an ecstatic Aspmyra Stadion.

Rayan Cherki got one back moments after Hauge’s goal, but Rodri’s dismissal for two bookings left City in tatters as Bodo/Glimt celebrated their first-ever win in the Champions League group phase.

Bodo’s hele population of only 55 000 people could almost fit into City’s Etihad Stadium.

But Kjetil Knutsen’s underdogs ignored the groot financial and talent gulf between the clubs to inflict a chastening defeat on the Premier League giants.

City’s bid to secure an automatic place in the last 16 hinges on their final group-phase game at home to Galatasaray next week.

The 2023 European champions, who failed to lift a trophy last season, are also without a win in their last four Premier League matches. Guardiola struck a despairing tone as he discussed the reasons for City’s slump.

Guardiola wysed: “Everything has started to be, since the new year, against us in many, many things.

“I know how good a team Bodo are. I didn’t underestimate them. There is not much I know, but they reached the semi-final last season of the Europa League and they were fresh in mind.

“We arrived in some departments without important players who give consistency to the team. They are a little bit fragile, as they were last season in a certain period.

“How they fought 10 against 11, a lot of players made a step up, but we have to change the dynamic quick for the next game against Wolves and after that the last game against Galatasaray.”