Guardiola was furious. He suffered an upset defeat and fell to third place. The championship situation worsened.

A match in the 12th round of the Premier League started, and Manchester City challenged Newcastle United as a guest. Manchester City achieved a record of 7 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses in the first 11 league games, ranking second. In all competitions, Manchester City is the favorite to win the championship. Manchester City has won all the last four games, first defeating Swansea in the EFL Cup, then defeating Bournemouth in the league, then beating Dortmund in the Champions League, and in the last game they swept Liverpool in the league. This time Manchester City faced the powerful Newcastle United. As a result, Manchester City lost unexpectedly and lost 3 crucial points on the road to the championship.

Manchester City has a 433 offensive formation. The offensive trident of Doku, Haaland and Shirki attacked hand in hand. Foden, Nico Gonzalez and Bernardo Silva form a midfield 3. The back four of Nico O'Reilly, Gvardiol, Ruben Dias and Nunes started. Donnarumma serves as the starting goalkeeper. Malmouche, Bob, Savinho, Reinders, Stones and Husanov sat on the bench.

Not long after the game started, Barnes got a very good opportunity, but his push shot was confiscated by the goalkeeper who fell to the ground. Immediately afterwards, Haaland missed a good opportunity and his single shot went wide. In the 7th minute, Sherki dribbled the ball in from the left and shot, but the goalkeeper confiscated the ball. Five minutes later, Walter Mader's header was miraculously resolved by Donnarumma. In the 26th minute, Walter Mader missed a good opportunity again. Then, Barnes missed the empty goal. Subsequently, Harland's outflanking shot in front of the goal was resolved by the goalkeeper. At halftime, the score was still 0-0!

Change sides and fight again in the second half. Walter Mader outflanked the shot in the middle of the penalty area, and Donnarumma saved the ball. In the 63rd minute, Newcastle United finally seized the opportunity. Barnes took a shot from the front of the penalty area and the ball went into the lower left corner of the goal. This time there was nothing Donnarumma could do. Five minutes later, Ruben Dias scored to equalize the score. However, Manchester City soon conceded the goal again. Barnes scored the ball in the chaos in front of the goal and scored twice. Guardiola was furious. And Manchester City couldn't score again after that. In the end, Manchester City lost 1-2 to Newcastle United, an upset.

In this game, Manchester City had 68% ball possession, 17 shots, 4 on target, and only scored 1 goal. Although Newcastle United only had 9 shots, the quality of the shots was relatively high, with 4 shots on target and 2 goals scored. Harvey Barnes was undoubtedly the best player in the game, scoring 2 goals. Manchester City's forwards all misfired, and Haaland failed to score in 5 shots. This defeat worsened Manchester City's championship situation. They were surpassed by Chelsea in the standings and fell to third place.