Manchester City is enduring a challenging season, facing the possibility of missing out on Champions League qualification after a disappointing start. Eberechi Eze's early goal for Crystal Palace intensified fears of City's potential downfall, leading to concerns about the team's performance. Nevertheless, Kevin De Bruyne's enduring quality and experience remain a crucial asset for the squad. Despite De Bruyne's announcement of leaving the club after a decade, his attributes of precision, physicality, and vision are still vital as City navigates a competitive Premier League landscape.
At his peak, De Bruyne-who announced just over a week ago that he will be leaving City this summer after 10 years with the club-was a player defined by three attributes: ball-striking precision, physicality, and vision.
Throughout City's season from hell, it has always felt like the squad was too strong, the manager too great, and the team too experienced to end the year in truly disastrous fashion by finishing outside of the Champions League places.
But then Eze put Palace ahead in what was for City a must-win home game, and I looked at the standings of this preposterously tight EPL top-five race, and I had to confront the idea that maybe City wouldn't ever wake up from this nightmare.
But for as bad as things are, Man City still has Kevin De Bruyne. And even at this age, in this season, in his final months with the club, Kevin De Bruyne can still be Kevin De Bruyne.
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