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- Updated: December 16, 2016
Manchester City are ready to compromise on Pep Guardiola’s passing philosophy to stop leaking goals, according to Pablo Zabaleta.
Zabaleta scored in Wednesday night’s 2-0 win over Watford and was part of a defence that kept City’s first clean sheet in nine games and just their second in three months.
Guardiola’s sides have traditionally passed out from the back, and the Catalan signalled his intent to implement the same style at City when he brought in ball-playing centre-half John Stones and goalkeeper Claudio Bravo in the summer.
But Stones was dropped to the bench against Watford after his poor backpass gifted Leicester’s …
