Manchester City 2-1 Bournemouth: Premier League – how it happened | Football

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Manchester City move to Wembley as Bournemouth’s Premier League status becomes increasingly precarious.

A week that started with the arbitration court for the sports victory moved to this close victory for Pep Guardiola’s team that keeps them honest before continuing their FA Cup defense against Arsenal. Despite a late rally, Bournemouth remains third at 31 points with only two games remaining, one fewer than the other teams involved in the relegation bout.

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I am sure the match report will be ready at any time, but until then I’m going to sneak away. Goodbye!

Sky has already turned his attention to what happens in London, so that we don’t hear the instantaneous reaction of the managers in Manchester. Bournemouth needs at least one victory from its remaining two games, which include one against an Everton team that has won two of its last nine games and has been looking a bit low in the motivation department in recent times. His next opponents Southampton have only lost once since the restart and have played, at worst, pretty well when I have seen them.

By the time the game starts, West Ham will have played Watford, two teams that sit three points ahead of the Cherries and at least one of which they must catch. A slender victory for Watford is probably the nightmare scenario, which due to West Ham’s far superior goal difference would effectively leave Bournemouth needing two wins in its last two games. A tie is not much better. However, a little luck in that game and two more performances like this, and they have a great chance of surviving.

Premier League action continues in the Emirates, where Arsenal plays with Liverpool. Scott Murray is everywhere:

Bournemouth were Excellent tonight. To say the bleeding is obvious, if they played like this every week they wouldn’t be close to the last three.

90 + 7 minutes: The launch is launched, but Stones cuts it off, and voila!

90 + 6 minutes: About 30 seconds to go. Ederson comes out to deal with a direct pass, and Bournemouth will throw the resulting serve into the box.

90 + 5 minutes: Brooks crosses, but he’s too tall and a little aimless, and Ederson picks up.

90 + 4 minutes: Rico crosses to the left, and Callum Wilson heads.

90 + 3 minutes: Another chance! Ramsdale’s long free kick is thrown at Surridge, who can’t control it before bumping into Ederson.

90 + 1 minutes: There will be six minutes of downtime! Harry Wilson’s low cross meets Lewis Cook, whose shot deflects towards Lerma, whose shot hits a defender and bounces to safety!

90 minutes: Bournemouth brings Surridge in place of Billings.

90 minutes: Chance for a second! Brooks’ cross comes out of Garcia’s butt and lands on Callum Wilson, whose first left foot from the edge of the box opens wide!

Bournemouth gets the goal he deserves! Callum Wilson enters from the left, while Otamendi gets dusted by Brooks in the middle, who is completely alone as he gobbles up the inside pass!

87 minutes: Twice in about 30 seconds, the city’s defenders are forced to mislead the wild clearings of danger.

84 minutes: Save! Garcia’s crossing from the right is not very good, but Foden controls him wonderfully, bypassing a defender and shooting from a sharp angle directly into Ramsdale.

83 minutes: Sterling has touched the ball 11 times since entering halftime and has been almost entirely peripheral.

78 minutes: Harry Wilson falls to the edge of the area as Mahrez stretches out one leg. The referee brings the whistle to his lips, then thinks better of it and waves. Turns out he got that call right, as the replays indicate it was a horrible hoax from the Bournemouth substitute.

77 minutes: The city takes off Jesus and Mendy, and brings Mahrez and Zinchenko. Bournemouth counters King and brings Harry Wilson.

76 minutes: This is probably the best spell in the City from the first few minutes of the game. Foden slides into Jesus, whose low shot from the right slides through the goal and wide open.

74 minutes: No penalty! Cook scooted over and picked up the ball, and Jesus put one foot on his ankle and walked over. It is not a dive, and a perfectly understandable decision by the referee on the field, and overall an excellent example of VAR intervention to make things better.

73 minutes: VAR is also checking this. It seems like an excellent challenge to me.

72 minutes: Penalty Manchester City! David Silva plays a good pass inside Jesus, whose first touch is good, but Steve Cook slides and kicks the ball.

69 minutes: Three changes for Bournemouth, who brings Brooks, Lewis Cook and Callum Wilson, and takes Solanke, Stanislas and Gosling.

68 minutes: The city makes another change, bringing Rodri to Gundogan.

66 minutes: King runs from the left and passes Garcia, who reaches out in an effort to delay his progress. King could have won a penalty if he had fallen at that point, but instead he keeps running and wins only one corner.

65 minutes: Bournemouth still looks pretty decent. I’ve seen them multiple times since reboot, and indeed before, and have often been seen as an incoherent mess. This has been a very decent performance, and even if the game ended 2-0 if Watford plays City, as they tend to Bournemouth, it could end with a better goal difference.

64 minutes: Another chance for Bournemouth! Stanislas crosses, Ederson runs out of his line, but throws it straight at Gosling, and his first effort is completely diverted!

60 minutes: The offside decision is confirmed, but that couldn’t have been much closer and, in my opinion, falls squarely in the “should really hit them” category.

59 minutes: VAR is checking this: It seemed clear at the time, but it looks very close on reps.

59 minutes: Bournemouth score! But it is forbidden! Stanislas enters to the right, turns inside Gundogan and shoots a shot towards the far post. He was heading wide, so King hits him, but the linesman’s flag is up!

58 minutes: Foden blocks a left-handed cross from the right over everyone and everything in contact. Goal kick.

54 minutes: Fernandinho explodes on the right, confronts Rico, turns him to one side, turns him to the other, and then sends a cross that is cleared for a corner. An excellent impression of a complicated flying end of the 35 year old man.

52 minutes: The city stays with the ball, but still does not know what to do with it.

49 minutes: After his halftime trade, City is basically playing with a four advanced midfield, with Foden on the right, Jesus on the left, and Sterling and Silva in the middle, with no forwards.

46 minutes: Peeeeeep! The game is back, and City has made a couple of on-time substitutions, bringing in Eric Garcia and Raheem Sterling, and removing Bernardo Silva and Kyle Walker.

However, that Stanislas free kick. The entire sequence of events once the ball reached Ederson, who dived completely to his left, was: hand-hand-hand-head-wide. It was a brilliant shot, and even after being saved, it could have easily entered.

45 + 3 minutes: Now we have had half the time. Bournemouth has played fairly decently, and could easily be on the level. Ultimately, while this level of performance might not be good enough to get anything out of Manchester City, it could very well do so in its next games against Southampton and Everton.

45 + 1 minutes: There will be two minutes of detention time in the first half, or something in that region.

43 minutes: Chaos breaks out in Bournemouth’s defense after Ramsdale comes for the ball, grabs it and drops it. Jesus seems ready to run for the loose ball before Lerma steps in, and he falls. In the replay it seems to me (and Jamie Carragher in Sky) as a penalty, but the referee did not give it and the VAR does not think it is worth it to cancel.

40 minutes: King pursues a decent career on his own, right to the edge of the city area, but then can’t decide what to do next and is dispossessed.