Manchester City regained the path of victory and smile with the help of Rodrigo Hernández, back after his two-match suspension, which resulted in two consecutive defeats in the Premier League against Wolves (2-1) and Arsenal (1-0 ). But if someone stood out among others in the victory of the ‘citizen’ against Brighton (2-1) it was the Belgian Jéremy Doku, who just missed the goal.
On the side of the ‘skyblue’, the goals were scored by the usual, an energetic Julián Álvarez and the inevitable Erling Haaland, while for the ‘seagulls’, Barcelona player Ansu Fati found the goal in the second opportunity in the last three days. on the field after the hour mark and changed a match that quickly became Pep Guardiola’s team.
Doku, who for a while had the first chance of the game in his boots, left Pascal Gross, reached the baseline and gave 1-0 to Julián Álvarez, who this season even entered the semi-final. Brighton’s shortcomings grew, as they lost Welbeck to injury after 15 minutes and before the 20th minute the hosts had doubled their lead through Haaland.
The Norwegian Cyborg took advantage of an early error by Carlos Baleba and surprised Jason Steele with a whip to the short post from the front. 2-0 and Doku continued what he was doing, making the afternoon bittersweet for a veteran like James Milner and in search of a goal that ended up never coming.
After the break, Roberto De Zerbi decided to end Milner’s try and brought on Joel Veltman, who was also outplayed by Doku who was named MVP of the match. Brighton grew and the recently renewed Kaoru Mitoma managed to reduce the gap on several occasions, the first being stopped by Stefan Ortega, a starter in place of Ederson who had just played with Brazil, and the second he crashed into the side of the net german
It was achieved, seven minutes after his entry, by a growing Ansu Fati, who ended a counterattack initiated by himself by collecting the rebound from Manuel Akanji inside the area. Both players again starred in a deadly stoppage time for both teams, where Solly March was injured and where Akani was sent off for a double yellow after grabbing Ansu. Bad for the Swiss, who will miss next Sunday’s Manchester derby (Old Trafford, 4.30 pm).
Source: La Verdad
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