Phil Foden, Jeremy Doku and Nico O’Reilly were introduced at the start of the second half, but the triple substitution failed to change the tide, despite City dominating most statistics (below). Leverkusen soon doubled their lead when Patrik Schick’s header finished a sweeping move.

Man City lost 2-0 to Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League after making 10 changes; many feel City are over-reliant on Erling Haaland but the Etihad Stadium defeat - their first at home in the Cham

Guardiola deployed a much-changed XI from Man City’s weekend defeat at St. James’ Park, trusting his fringe players to get past Bayer Leverkusen. While Erling Haaland, Jérémy Doku, Bernardo Silva and Phil Foden looked on, the Cityzens got off to a dominant start at the Etihad.

MANCHESTER, England: Pep Guardiola made 10 changes to his team and Manchester City paid the price. A 2-0 defeat to Bayer Leverkusen in the Champions League on Tuesday made it back-to-back losses for City and raised questions over Guardiola's decision to ...

Pep Guardiola reaches a century of UCL matches as Manchester City welcome Bayer Leverkusen, while Barcelona travel to Stamford Bridge to face Chelsea

An impressive Bayer Leverkusen inflicted a first defeat of this season’s Champions League on a below-par Manchester City and moved to within two points of their opponents in the league.