Former defender Stephen Warnock says Wednesday’s Champions League play-off second leg at Actual Madrid will check “how good Nico Gonzalez is in a strain recreation”.
Manchester Metropolis’s new signing was in Saturday’s 4-0 win over however will face a extra daunting activity when Pep Guardiola’s facet arrive on the Bernabeu on Wednesday needing to overturn a 3-2 first-leg deficit.
“Will probably be attention-grabbing to see how Manchester Metropolis go about it,” Warnock advised BBC Radio 5 Dwell’s Monday Evening Membership.
“Does he play [Omar] Marmoush up alongside [Erling] Haaland immediately and say ‘we wish to get a aim again immediately’?
“Does he compact the midfield and say ‘we keep within the recreation for so long as we are able to’ and produce him on with half an hour to go and perhaps unleash that tempo in a while within the recreation?
“We will see how good Nico Gonzalez is in a strain recreation. Away on the Bernabeu – that’s the place you can be examined to your absolute most. To see whether or not you possibly can sense hazard, whether or not you possibly can defend your workforce, whether or not you possibly can maintain the ball in tight areas and strain conditions.
“That is precisely what Metropolis have struggled to do. Can he cowl the bottom with restoration runs to verify he’s monitoring again?
“They go into this recreation with a little bit bit extra organisation in midfield however nonetheless large questions on the again.”
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