A couple of weeks into this season, fresh off a combined 198 points over the past two Premier League campaigns: I wrote the following words: "The natural order of things is a City win; anything else is an aberration." Well, four months later, there have been plenty of aberrations. Six of 'em, in fact, as City are sporting an 11-2-4 record through 17 league matches. Not only are they 14 points behind first-place Liverpool, but they're four points back of their opponent this weekend, second-place Leicester City, whose best player (Riyad Mahrez) they purchased a little over a year ago.
Man City's 'collapse' has many factors, but Guardiola & Co. will rebound in 2020
