These 2 Manchester City players must improve if they are to win the Premier League

Manchester City suffered a second successive Premier League defeat after going down 4-2 at champions Leicester City on Saturday.

Pep Guardiola’s side were 2-0 down within five minutes thanks to goals from Jamie Vardy and Andy King, and the visitors never really recovered, conceding twice more to Vardy before Aleksandar Kolarov and Nolito hit back with consolations.

Following last weekend’s frustrating 3-1 defeat at home to Chelsea, Guardiola would have been hoping for a response from his players, yet he got nothing close to what he was looking for.

It now means that City have won just three of their last nine Premier League games, and now find themselves seven points adrift of league leaders Chelsea after their 1-0 win over West Brom on Sunday.

However, Guardiola’s men are still fourth and have only lost three of their 15 league games, so it’s not a crisis by any stretch just yet, but things need to improve, certainly defensively, if City are to challenge for the title in the second half of the season.

Thus, here are TWO City players in particular who must up their game…