Izuchukwu Okosi
Pep Guardiola identified his team’s inability to create more goal scoring chances through defence splitting passes as the undoing of Manchester City in Sunday’s 3-3 draw against Newcastle United at Saint James Park.
Ilkay Gundogan, Erling Haaland and Bernardo Silva scored City’s goals in the clash as Guardiola’s team looked slick in the opening stages, but after about 25 minutes the hosts started to cut through City’s defence with ease.
Guardiola ‘s defenders struggled to cope with the pace of Allan Saint-Maximin and Venezuelan forward Miguel Almiron throughout the game.
Almiron and Callum Wilson (double) were The Toons’ goalscorers.
“They [Newcastle] have everything, pace and quality,” Guardiola said post match when asked what he thought of Newcastle’s performance.
“[St James’ Park is a] difficult place to come, we behaved really really good again, but the only problem is that when we break the lines and run if you finish the action [attack] it’s no problem, but if you don’t finish you don’t arrive to control Saint-Maximin and Almiron,” the former Barcelona and Bayern Munich manager told the media.
Izuchukwu Okosi is a Nigerian sports and entertainment journalist with two decades of experience in the media industry having begun his media journey in 2002 as an intern at Mundial Sports International (MSI) and Africa Independent Television (AIT), owners of Daar Communications Plc.
In October 2004, Okosi joined Complete Communications Limited, publishers of Complete Sports newspaper and Complete Football magazine as a reporter and later script writer for the Complete Sports studio.
He worked there for 13 years until October 2017.
Okosi also worked various times as Correspondent, Content creator and Editor at Sports Market International Magazine, Opera News, All Nigeria Soccer Media and Iconic Media Watch.
He also undertook freelance writing gigs for some local and international organizations.
Okosi is a member of the Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN), Association of Movie Producers (AMP), Association of Voiceover Artistes of Nigeria (AVOA), Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN) and Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ).
He has been part of cast in some Nollywood movies and radio dramas including Blood Money 2, Scores To Settle, Dead End 2, Another Campus Tale and Battle Line.
Aside mainstream media and the entertainment industry, he has interests in scouting/unearthing of talents in the sports and creative sectors, exports business and property development.
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