Dickov backs City to bounce back from slump

Manchester City are going through a slump which has seen them fall off the pace in the title race but Paul Dickov believes they only need to look at recent history to rectify the problem.

City began the season with six straight wins in the Premier League under new manager Pep Guardiola, but after a first loss of the campaign to Tottenham, they have since gone down to Chelsea and Leicester.

But for Dickov, who spent seven seasons at Manchester City over two spells, there is undoubtedly the talent in the squad to get back on track.

And the key for him is to rediscover the early season form by cutting out the individual mistakes.

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He said: “There might be a bit of doom and gloom around at the moment, but it wasn’t that long ago that we’d just won ten games in a row, and you don’t do that in England if you’re not a really good team.

“Perhaps we need to look back at how we beat those teams and the problems we caused and take it from there.

“Leicester showed against us that sometimes, if you go back to basics and cut out the individual errors, you rediscover the form you had in the first place.”