The Manchester City defender has been blighted by injury but his display against Leipzig offered a glimpse of his true quality
Manchester City’s 7-0 shellacking of Leipzig
Marco Rose’s visitors were overrun all evening. Erling Haaland hogged the headlines with his five-goal blitz, Kevin De Bruyne was a constant creative menace and Stones performed as a quasi-second Rodri, smoothly linking defence and attack as if operating in the mode for as a long as the Spaniard. The clips revealed a 21-year-old whose fluidity had him purring out from the back in possession, seeing a clear map of the game and selecting the right option with a schemer’s eyes.. Stones proved injury bedevilled and performed unevenly, Guardiola offered intermittent mutterings about the player’s private life, and the England international admitted three years ago that he might depart – after Guardiola had previously insisted that as long as “I am manager Stones will be at the club”.
after Stones had fought his way back into the XI to be Rúben Dias’s regular central defensive partner. That 2020-21 campaign was arguably his finest as City won the title and Guardiola selected Stones to start the Champions League final against Chelsea.
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