Everton end the year bitterly for City

Bitter year end for him City of Manchesterwho left two points inexplicably in his duel against Everton. The match was dominated by the team of Pep Guardiola and he promised they were happy with the 1-0 dominating scoreboard at half-time thanks to both Erling Haalandhowever in a strange second act and through the water the ‘toffees’ leveled the contest with a great goal from Demarai Gray. All the attempts of the ‘citizen’ were unsuccessful, mainly because of a Jordan Pickford inextricably ended up relegating the Premier to second.

City of Manchester

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Everton

Manchester City: Ederson; Lewis (Julián Álvarez, min. 87), Stones, Akanji, Ake; De Bruyne, Rodri, Bernardo Silva (Gundogan, min. 87); Mahrez, Haaland and Grealish (Foden, min. 87).

Everton: Pickford; Patterson (Coleman, min. 70), Godfrey (Doucouré, min. 91), Coady, Tarkowski, Mykolenko; Iwobi, Gueye (Davies, min. 78), Onana, Gray; Calvert-Lewin (Maupay, min. 70).

The objectives: 1-0 min. 24: Haaland; 1-1 min. 64: Gray.

Referee: Andrew Madeley. He showed a yellow card to Bernardo Silva (min. 16), De Bruyne (min. 30) and Haaland (min. 44) of Manchester City and Patterson (min. 33) and Tarkowski (min. 45), Onana (min. 63) and Everton’s Maupay (min. 100).

Incidents: match corresponding to the eighteenth day of the Premier League played at Manchester City’s Etihah Stadium in front of nearly 48,000 spectators. Julián Álvarez was honored before the game after winning the World Cup in Qatar with the Argentina team. In addition, a minute of silence was observed for the death of the Brazilian Pelé.

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The fear with which the fight began is not good for city. in the first minute Haaland he went to the ground after a stomp and everyone assumed the worst. Fortunately the Norwegian is able to continue, an important fact, because he is in charge of breaking the defensive wall of Everton.

The domain of city I will have a prize on Mahrez broke his marker and put a low cross on the ‘killer’ of Premier. Haaland he stretched out his right leg to finish and open the local account (24′), scoring his 26th goal in 20 games with the ‘citizen’ shirt.

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Before the break Guardiola they pressed for the second, but the clearest chance available to them was denied by the post, who released the header from stones.

The City was derailed

Everything would change in a strange second half that marred the football of city. Technical problems with the linesman announcer caused the loss of several minutes. Then constant interruptions due to fouls or discussions between soccer players break the rhythm of the Guardiolafully centered.

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The Everton, who didn’t shoot once on goal, was still strong at the back but now added more pace on the counter. This is one of those times grey he was about to blow the game open with one of the goals of the season. He launched the counterattack, stepped into the area and nailed it into the top corner with an unstoppable right hand (64′).

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The tie hurts a city that he lost all control, giving way to a crazy and unpredictable game. The Everton He is like a fish out of water and resists all the attacks proposed by the ‘citizen’ group.

There is no shortage of big stops pickford to maintain a tie that felt like glory for Liverpool and disappointment for a City that could be 7 points behind leaders Arsenal.