City’s opponent is Chelsea

The City of Manchester go beyond the ‘seed’ of Chelsea and goes to the eighth of Carabao Cup. The set of Pep Guardiola was imposed on Potter’s thanks to the claws of Riyadh Mahrez Y Julian Alvarez and the stopping of an expert Stefan Ortegawho claimed he would be a good replacement for Ederson.

City of Manchester

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Chelsea

Manchester City: Ortega; Lewis, Dias, Laporte (Ake, min. 81), Sergio Gómez; Palmer, Rodri (Phillips, min. 50), Gündogan (Bernardo Silva, min. 50); Mahrez, Julian Alvarez, and Grealish.

Chelsea: mendy Loftus-Cheek, Chalobah (Azpilicueta, min. 69), Koulibaly, Cucurella, Hall (Havertz, min. 75); Kovacic, Zakaria (Gallagher, min. 68); Ziyech (Sterling, min. 68), Broja (Mount, min. 68) and Pulisic.

The objectives: 1-0, min. 53: Mahrez; 2-0, min. 58: Julian Alvarez.

Referee: Simon Hopper. He showed yellow cards to Koulibaly (min. 18), Chalobah (min. 52) and Azpilicueta (min. 89) for Chelsea and Grealish (min. 89) for Manchester City.

Incidents: match corresponding to the round of 32 of the FA Cup played at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium in front of 52,000 spectators.

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Despite the rotations, both teams hit the field with strong ‘elevens’. It’s not in the green Erling Halland, who is still not fully recovered from his ankle. The Norwegian, yes, watched the game from the bench as well Kevin DeBruynealso unpublished.

The first half ended with a more pressing City winning the points in a Chelsea who despite being drawn also enjoyed good chances to score.

In the second act is when the city put another gear. This is Mahrez who broke the tie with a perfect free kick (53′).

After only five minutes, the local team condemned a book against. Mendy had the first shot at Mahrez, but he was there Julian Alvarez to hole the rejection of the goal ‘blue’ (58 ‘).

All attempts of Chelsea they will face an impressive Ortega, who has earned recognition as the best player of the match.