Analysing Nico Gonzalez: A player built to play alongside Rodri at City, not replace him
The problem is that Mateo Kovacic’s ball-carrying has often led City into danger this season: the Croatian’s natural instinct is to drive forward and play a killer pass, but when that goes awry, he invariably leaves a big space behind him that nobody else is able to fill, and opponents duly made hay on the counter.