Manchester City travelled to Germany this week for their Champions League match against RB Leipzig.
The match didn’t count for much for Pep Guardiola’s club, but the manager still fielded a strong side and they will have been expected to get a result from the game. Things didn’t go their way, with Leipzig winning the tie 2-1, thanks to goals from Dominik Szoboszlai and Andre Silva.
Riyad Mahrez found the back of the net for Manchester City.
Bild weren’t impressed by the performance from the Premier League champions, and Kyle Walker, who received a red card towards the end of the match, was deemed the worst player on the pitch.
Bild’s player ratings are very different to what we’re used to. Whilst most ratings are out of 10, or sometimes 5, Bild use the German school grading system.
1 means very good, 2 is good, 3 is average, 4 is passable but still lacking, 5 is deficient and 6 is insufficient. A 6 is the lowest possible grade and, taking it back to the school grades, it means that not only were things not up to standard, but there was even a failure to understand the basics.
Walker got a 6, with John Stones and Nathan Ake both given a 5. Indeed there were only two City players even considered average, with the 3 ratings going to Mahrez and Zack Steffen.
