MANCHESTER, England -- For 75 minutes on Tuesday night, Manchester City were cruising against Feyenoord and heading to Liverpool on Sunday with a much-needed injection of confidence after a bruising run of five straight defeats. By the time manager Pep Guardiola walked back down the tunnel at full-time, though, he had watched the Dutch side horribly expose the vulnerability that is infecting his team, and a game that should have ended in a 3-0 home win finished in a 3-3 draw.
It wasn't a sixth consecutive defeat, it just felt like one.