Mumbai, Oct. 7 -- After Pep Guardiola's 601st match as manager of a top-flight club ended, one statistic stood out. In all his time as manager of Barcelona, Bayern Munich and now City, the 54-year-old manager has set his teams to play attacking, possession-based football. But against Arsenal, he substituted attackers with defensive players, and got his team to drop back and defend a narrow 1-0 lead. In the end, City managed only 33% possession, the lowest ever for a Guardiola-led team and a 1-1 draw. "This is something I've never seen from Pep," said Michael Owen, the former England striker and now pundit, to HT. "Bringing defenders on and taking off players that can keep the ball. Maybe (he has) a lack of confidence in his current team." I...