He City of Manchester do not loosen before measuring in real Madrid in the Champions League The English team will face the tie against the whites in the best way; leaders of the Premier and with solid and electric football, with Haaland scary and with debruyne fully recovered from his physical ailments. The question arose with Aké, who had to leave the farm because of a hole in his calf.
The three points remained Manchester in an afternoon that ended with more nerves than expected. Leeds is a puppet in the hands of the City and Ilkay Gündogan, scorer of the doublebut Akanji’s mistake in the final stretch -Rodrigo Moreno marked- encouraged Sam Allardyce’s new team and worried Guardiola’s men, who despite suffering from the discount ended up consolidating their lead.
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Manchester City: Ederson; Akanji, Laporte, Aké (Walker, min. 54); Mahrez, Rico Lewis, Gündogan (Rodri, min. 93), Foden, De Bruyne; Julián Álvarez (Bernardo Silva, min. 86) and Haaland.
Leeds United: joel Kristensen, Wöber, Junior; Ayling, Forshaw (Struijk, min. 80), Marc Roca (Greemwood, min. 59), Harrison (Summerville, min. 66); McKennie, Gnonto (Rodrigo, min. 58) and Bamford (Aaronson, min. 80).
The objectives: 1-0 min. 19: Gundogan; 2-0 min. 27: Gundogan; 2-1 min. 85: Rodrigo.
Referee: Andrew Madeley. He showed yellow cards to Gnonto (min. 45+2), Rodrigo (min. 71) and McKennie (min. 93) of Leeds United.
Incidents: The match equivalent to thirty-five days of the Premier League was played at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium in front of nearly 50,000 spectators.
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And things seemed to be going well after City’s torrid first half. The tie against Madrid seems to have conditioned the selection of Guardiola’s ‘eleven’who rested on the headlines like Rodri, Rúben Dias or Bernardo Silva, although not Haaland nor to Kevin DeBruyne, healed of his physical ailments. Both played 90 minutes and once again showed their chemistry on the pitch, even if it was the connection between Mahrez and Gundogan which provided additional income to the ‘citizens’.
The German objectives came in a traced manner; open ball for the Algerian and service for the arrival of a surgical ‘Gundo’ to his shots. The first arranged it to the right, the second to the left, with a city wants himself before an inoffensive Leeds, which apart from the premiere of Sam Allardyce on the bench he also saw his debut Joel Robles under the sticks.
City compiled an abysmal 84% of possession in the first half, a total dominance that did not translate into a win due to a lack of goals by Haaland. The Norwegian had great chances to score, but ended up being denied by Joel and the sticks, as two of his shots were deflected off the woodwork.
Even a penalty the City will not achieve the sentence. This time it will be Gundogan who will run the stick and on the next play Rodrigo closed the gap after a mistake by Akanji. The emotion in the last moments, although the ‘citizens’ got the victory before the visit of Madrid.
Source: La Verdad
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