Second-half goals from Dusan Vlahovic and Weston McKennie saw Juventus beat Man City 2-0 in Turin to leave Pep Guardiola's side in danger of an early Champions League elimination.
City went into game on a run of just one win in their last nine matches in all competitions and it showed in a cagey first half in which the visitors dominated possession, but managed just the one shot on target at the Juventus Stadium.
However, it was the sort of opening you have come to expect Erling Haaland to bury, slipped through on goal by Kevin De Bruyne's clever pass as for the first time in the game the home back line was split, only for Michele Di Gregorio to race off his line and claw away the striker's dinked effort.
That miss proved costly eight minutes after half-time when Juve made the breakthrough in scruffy fashion as Kenan Yildiz hung a ball up to the back post for Vlahovic to attack and power a close-range header past Ederson.
City responded to falling behind, knowing they had to at least avoid defeat to keep alive their hopes of staying in the competition beyond January, with Bernardo Silva and Ilkay Gundogan both going close, before getting caught on the counter with a quarter of an hour to go.
The hosts' broke down their left, before working the ball to Timothy Weah and although his initial cross was blocked, he then picked out fellow substitute McKennie, who volleyed spectacularly past Ederson to end the game as a contest.
As a result, City lie way down in 22nd place in the new Champions League standings and with just two games left to play - at Paris Saint-Germain and then home to Club Brugge - they are in real danger of not even finishing in the top 24 and making the playoffs.
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