Football Manager
Copy & Paste Merchant
City midfielders can push forward because inverted fullbacks are occupying the midfield position when attacking. It does not mean they are box to box players. Of course I admire City players a lot, they are not those disgusting box to box players.Skillset, discipline or system issue? To me that's a discipline or system issue, not skillset.
This possession based ideal you seem to have would require midfielders making late runs into the box against teams who sit in a low block, which is a skillset.