Manchester City are sweating hard to keep track of Arsenal

He City of Manchester winner from the more complex match against newcastle (2-0) and managed to continue the pursuit of Arsenal, leader of the Premier League.

The box is not easy at all Pep Guardiola despite what the result might look like. One of the main reasons is undoubtedly that kevin debruyne played a terrible game. It’s strange to write this, but the truth is that the Belgian didn’t hit the ball from the first play and that meant that the ‘citizen’ attack suffered.

The match was fascinating. He newcastle He came out to squeeze the ball out of a City who in the first few minutes almost gave more of a scare in their own half, although they came out unscathed. The good thing for them is that after a quarter of an hour in a wonderful individual playing Foden difference was made. The Briton, the starter on the right wing, pounced on it and moved away from three of his rivals to score with luck, as Botman deflected the shot just enough and ended up missing Pope (15′).

He did not give his arm to twist a newcastle that if he did not achieve the tie in the next play it was because of Aké’s brilliant defensive action. However, it is true that the ‘magpies’ played arguably their worst minute of the match until the break. This was when City dominated the most, linking the midfielders with the attackers but missing the final decisive pass from De Bruyne. Especially Haalandwith options to draw beautiful unchecked.

Eddie Howeintelligently, rearranged the pressure lines of newcastle and the team is more willing to do damage after the robbery. Joelinton hit a point-blank shot in the air for a goal and Isak since then made a couple of plays that put the defense in trouble, although it didn’t materialize.

It doesn’t mean that he is city did not forget to attack, but instead maintained a lack of pause to find the free man in the final third. Up to 67′. Bernardo Silvawho had come on for De Bruyne two minutes earlier, poked into the net after receiving a gentle touch from Haaland.

Even with the score, the tension in the match remained. So there was at least one small clash between some players from both teams when Burn fouled Grealish, again very supportive in defence. The game was so strange that, in fact, Guardiola did not dare to make more changes to preserve the result. And it served him.

City of Manchester

20

newcastle

City of Manchester: Ederson; Walker, Akanji, Ruben Dias, Ake; Gundogan, Rodri; Foden, De Bruyne (Bernardo Silva, 65′), Grealish; Haaland
Newcastle: Pope; Trippier, Lascelles, Botman, Burn (Target, 87′); Longstaff (Willock, 63′), Guimaraes, Joelinton; Almirón (Murphy, 77′), Wilson (Isak, 63′) and Gordon (Saint-Maximin, 62′)
Goals: 1-0, Foden (15′); 2-0, Bernardo Silva (67′)
Attendance: 53,419 at the Etihad Stadium
Referees: Simon Hooper

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