2023-09-23 20:58:34
He Manchester City It only took fifteen minutes, with a total offensive, unlimited and unbearable for him. Nottingham Forest (2-0), defeated at full speed for the insatiable leader of the Premier League, that sentenced him before the quarter of an hour with the goals of Phil Foden and Erling Haalandbut who later regretted the expulsion with a direct red card of Rodrigo Hernandez to transform his football into resistance.
Their performance is unstoppable, six games and six victories, five points above any of their closest pursuers, awaiting the Sunday scores of the Arsenalof the Tottenham and of Liverpool. Their local strength is unquestionable, with 13 consecutive wins in the league competition, since the 1-1 on December 31, 2022 against the Everton. Of his last 26 duels in the Etihad In this tournament he has won 24.
His victory this Saturday was stunning. Immediate. The leader did not give any chance of surprise at the beginning. Until he solved it. In the first quarter of an hour he allowed absolutely nothing to the Nottingham Forest, who chased ‘ghosts’ over the countryside. He arrived late, surpassed by the precision, mobility and punch of the best team in the world. Not only was he leading 2-0 then, but possession was 88 percent his.
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Not everything was happiness for the team Guardiola. At 27 seconds into the second half, Rodrigo He was sent off with a direct red card, for an inappropriate reaction, sanctioned for the “violent conduct” with which he displayed himself in front of Gibbs White.
It was not only the numerical inferiority with a whole half ahead, but the three matches that will probably fall on top of Rodrigoapart from the risk to which his team was exposed from then on, with a 2-0, with one man less, although the Forest Nor was he able to really worry him with his numerical superiority. He City He also knows how to defend. And suffer.
Manchester City, 2- Notthingham Forest, 0
Manchester City: Ederson; Walker, Reuben Dias, Hedgehog, Guardiol; Matthew Nunes, Rodrigo; Foden (Grealish, m. 87), Julian Alvarez (Ake, m. 56), Doku (Phillips, m. 52); Haaland.
Nottingham Forest: Turner; Aurier (Hudson Odoi, 56), Boly, Niakhate, Mangala, Nuno Tavares (Montiel, 39); Sangare (Garden, m. 56), Aina (Wood, m. 75); Nico Dominguez, Gibbs-White; Avoided (Origi, m. 76).
Goals: 1-0, m. 7: The foot. 2-0, m. 14: Haaland.
Referee: Anthony Taylor. Rodrigo was sent off with a direct red card (m. 46). He yellow carded the locals Akanji (m. 18) and Ederson (m. 58), as well as coach Pep Guardioal (m. 18), and the visitors Nuno Tavares (m. 22), Gibbs White (m. 46) , Awoniyi (d. 58), Mangala (d. 76), Origi (d. 81) and Montiel (d. 93).
Incidences: match corresponding to the sixth day of the Premier League, played at the Etihad stadium in Manchester in front of around 53,000 spectators.
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