1. Stuttgart still really good
2. I think more and more that there is a potential psychological error coming from being really good: you may get wasteful with your opportunities.
If you get into great positions again and again, you might not be as "critical" as you should be.

To be fair though, that still happens fairly rarely in City's game. I actually feel that they at times even look better in attacking at the moment, because they attack a bit more directly and create chances quicker.

This mostly shows in simple backpass-decisions and the movement for these. Sometimes they open up slower which can be fitness-related. Sometimes they take untypical risks with the ball too.

Feyenoord for example won a ball in midfield at minute 77 and they kept the ball for 2 minutes straight (1:3 down) while City tried to press high. That's two minutes additional running for City that they don't need to do against Everton.

Ultimately, City hardly manages to bring opponents below 85% pass completion at the moment. Doing this with their pressing is usually a backbone of their game and especially when they won the Champions League, they were fantastic also with tracking back.

Context! Lewis is 20 years old and has already played 23 games this season with 1879 minutes.
Silva is on 1667 minutes (+ 422 at the Euros).
Gündogan on 1048 (+ 386 Euros).

Minutes of Tottenham's midfielders this season: 807, 949, 994

(Numbers from before the weekend.)

Here are two scenes where Lewis just sort of stops defending. There are more scenes like that. It's unusual and shows what a lack of fitness (or rather: freshness) actually does on the pitch. Things become easier for opponents, you need longer to get the ball back.

Few examples from the Tottenham game and this is *early* game. Here, Gündogan is not shifting with lots of time to do so. You may think "Rodri would have been there", but normally, Gündogan would also go there.