Brian Priske, the Feyenoord coach, Arne Slot’s successor on City: “For me they are still one of the best teams in the world, a world-class team. We’ve seen a lot of their games and, for example, at the weekend against Spurs they were really unlucky. We know we have to play a perfect match to get a positive result, especially defensively.

More Pep: “In this situation we have to be more direct in our principles. Don’t change much, in fact less than ever. One day we’re going to win a game and our mind will be clear. I hope it will be [against Feyenoord], if not Sunday [against Liverpool]. But the desire is there to change it and we’re going to try.”

Does this mean they *are* going direct?

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