Missing for City: Oscar Bobb, Ruben Dias, Mateo Kovacic and, of course, Rodri.

That the rest look tired is also a big problem.

For Feyenoord: Santiago Gimenez will be a big miss, and he’s doubtful with a thigh injury.

Brian Priske, the Feyenoord coach, Arne Slot’s successor on City: “For me they are still one of the best teams in the world, a world-class team. We’ve seen a lot of their games and, for example, at the weekend against Spurs they were really unlucky. We know we have to play a perfect match to get a positive result, especially defensively.

More Pep: “In this situation we have to be more direct in our principles. Don’t change much, in fact less than ever. One day we’re going to win a game and our mind will be clear. I hope it will be [against Feyenoord], if not Sunday [against Liverpool]. But the desire is there to change it and we’re going to try.”

Does this mean they *are* going direct?

And Kevin De Bruyne: “It has been a bit chaotic. I have seen so many people passed around the medical area. Seeing who is playing, who is not, people who shouldn’t be playing but did with an injury; in these games we were all over the place. Everyone is down but we have to move on.”

Some Pep quotes from his press conference: “I still have the feeling that this season we will still do very good things. I don’t give up and I have a feeling we will be there. We will congratulate the team that takes our crown because they deserve it, not because we gave it to them. [When] you are defending a legacy, tradition, success it is so difficult to handle.”

Preamble