Some things about Manchester City are the same. Lots of territory, possession and control. These things remain as heavily weighted in their favour as they ever were under Pep Guardiola. But that is where the good news begins and ends.
For the current City do not look much like City at all, not as we have come to know and admire them anyway.
The Manchester derby at the weekend was insipid and uncompetitive and then there was this. With the second worst team in the Premier League as opposition – a team with one previous point earned away from home all season – City were strangely flat once again.