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Josep Guardiola’s sentinels in a home match against the Premier League peasant midfielder managed to improve their position in the standings (2: 0).
December 26, 2020, 11:55 PM
As part of the fifteenth round of the English Premier League, Manchester City hosted their native Etihad Stadium Newcastle, already knowing the results of direct competitors in the person of Leicester and Manchester United, who finished their match heads-up in a tie (2: 2) earlier on the day of the report.
For those of Josep Guardiola, this result was beneficial in terms of reducing the distance and increasing the density in the fight for the area of the first 4. Yes, a meeting with the middle peasant, with a parallel game of Everton, neighbor of the “neighbors” at the table, against outsider Sheffield United, frankly, pushed to the desired victory.
There are still fresh memories of the days when City were the country’s champions, but in the new season, “moon cats” is too early to think of an immediate title race. Here, at least, to achieve a relatively straight streak of results, in which there will be no room for results like a draw with West Bromwich or West Ham (1: 1 each), in the way these teams were at the time. . The match against the “forties” in this context seemed quite attractive, as Steve Bruce’s team could not yet finally determine their goals for the season.
The home team from the beginning of the match managed to designate an advantage in the control of the ball, so little by little the situation around someone else’s penalty area escalated. Manchester City this season was not only kicked by the lazy for the poor implementation of the opportunities created during the game, but tonight Guardiola’s team managed to send the ball to the opposing goal already in the first shot on goal. Sterling, in the right corner of the alien keeper on the swing, knocked out two defenders, after which he waited for Gundogan to get a chance to strike with a bunt from a comfortable position.
The only thing that played against City in the briefing was the weather. Under the final whistle, the wet snow gradually turned into a downpour, causing the game to slow down along the corresponding curve. The “Citizens” wanted to deal with the opponents before going into halftime, but De Bruyne and Sterling missed the right moments for goals scored, so Guardiola’s charges continued in the second half.
The Man of the Match is undoubtedly João Canselo. It was he who dispersed Sterling in the first capture of the other people’s goal, and at the beginning of the second half his center from the right wing was marked by a failed attempt to take out Fernández’s goalkeeper, which was immediately corrected by an accurate shot from Ferran Torres . The Portuguese defender kept climbing in the future, only the partners had problems with the implementation again, so we could not see the mind-blowing numbers in the final statistics for Canselo.
But even these efforts by the home team were enough to completely neutralize the opponents’ desire to fight for points. Newcastle hit just two shots on goal in their entire time on the field, but Ederson had no trouble repelling them. The “magpies” are still experiencing the crisis of the absence of Saint-Maximin in the attack, and if the French does not return in the near future, then the intermediate 12 line in the classification for Steve Bruce’s team may seem unattainable. So what’s next? Change coach again?
In the next round, Manchester City will face a head-on collision with Everton on the road, in a fight for the right to take the most comfortable places in the standings before the end of 2020. And Newcastle will have a reason to pass the outgoing year at home against the reigning champions of the country, Liverpool.
Manchester city – Newcastle 2: 0
Goals: Gundogan, 14, Torres, 55
City of Manchester: Ederson – Cancellou, Stones, Díaz, Ake – Gundogan (Foden, 90), Rodri (Fernandinho, 57) – Silva, De Bruyne, Sterling – Torres (Aguero, 77).
Newcastle: Darlow – Yedlin, Sher, Fernandez, Clark, Ritchie (Lewis, 66) – Murphy, Hayden, Hendrick, M. Longstaff, Almiron (Gail, 82) – Joelinton (Carroll, 71).
Warnings: Rodri, Canselo – Ritchie.
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