Manchester City executive chairman Garry Cook has admitted the Blues have lost their way since their stormy Premier League win over Arsenal in August.
City started the campaign in fine form, winning their opening four games, including that one against the Gunners, and challenging for the Premier League leadership.
However, a run of five successive draws coincided with Emmanuel Adebayor's return from a three-match ban for his attack on Robin van Persie.
Although the £25million Togo striker has since returned from suspension, and a subsequent hip injury, he has not found the form that saw him score in that quartet of early victories. And with City's defence struggling as Joleon Lescott tries to cement a centre-half partnership with skipper Kolo Toure and gaps appear in both full-back areas, so wins have been harder to come by.
"There was a buzz about the place when we played Arsenal. Everybody's expectations were high but we got disjointed a little bit," Cook told The National. "We lost Adebayor for a little bit and then international games broke our momentum up.
"Since then we have had a couple of games where we thought we could have probably come away with a better result but that is the way it works."
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