Man City Square
Fansided

Manchester City player ratings: 10 man City defeat Burnley

By Nathan Reynolds

Manchester City and Burnley players walk out for the Premier League match at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester. (Photo by Martin Rickett/PA Images via Getty Images)
Manchester City and Burnley players walk out for the Premier League match at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester. (Photo by Martin Rickett/PA Images via Getty Images) /
facebooktwitterreddit
Prev
3 of 14
Next
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – JANUARY 02: Bacary Sagna of Manchester City (L) and Stephen Ward of Burnley (R) battle for possession during the Premier League match between Manchester City and Burnley at Etihad Stadium on January 2, 2017 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND – JANUARY 02: Bacary Sagna of Manchester City (L) and Stephen Ward of Burnley (R) battle for possession during the Premier League match between Manchester City and Burnley at Etihad Stadium on January 2, 2017 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Shaun Botterill/Getty Images) /

Bacary Sagna

Brought in over Zabaleta to help rotate the two fullbacks. Burnley maintained more possession in the first half than the team would have planned for and he did a solid job shutting down their advances. Didn’t get into much of the attack, and obviously Clichy’s goal outshines him today. However, he picked up a yellow card around the Burnley goal that could have easily been a red card. Already a man down, and with his experience, Sagna needed to be smarted there and not risk giving the ref a chance to make that call.

Rating: 6