EPL 2016/17: Southampton 0-3 Manchester City, 5 talking points

SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND - APRIL 15:  Sergio Aguero of Manchester City celebrates scoring his sides third goal with his Manchester City team mates during the Premier League match between Southampton and Manchester City at St Mary's Stadium on April 15, 2017 in Southampton, England.  (Photo by Mike Hewitt/Getty Images)
Sergio Aguero scored the third goal of the match against the Saints

#5 The curious case of Claudio Bravo

HUDDERSFIELD, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 18:  Claudio Bravo of Manchester City during the The Emirates FA Cup Fifth Round match between Huddersfield Town and Manchester City at John Smith's Stadium on February 18, 2017 in Huddersfield, England.  (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images)
Bravo kept a clean sheet against Southampton

After his £17million move from Barcelona, much was expected of the custodian for whom Pep Guardiola had decided to offload the long-serving Joe Hart. But Bravo has failed to live up to the expectations and made some costly errors throughout the current campaign which forced Guardiola to drop him in favour of Willy Caballero.

Against Southampton, though, Bravo kept a rare clean sheet and also made a save off the shot of Maya Yoshida which helped him break the dubious feat of letting a goal in his last seven shots on target. His distribution was, however, sub-par as he took some wrong decisions when on the ball.

Though he didn't do anything shocking against the Saints, it wasn't a performance which would help his cause to stay in the starting lineup. He had looked dodgy in the past few months and that was the case again at the St. Mary's with Bravo looking seriously low on confidence at the moment.

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