Manchester City is not losing its footing in the Premier, where it is fighting to become the first English team to win four consecutive leagues. Having passed the Brighton station, which was once again a seaside resort (0-4), they have five more left to reach a goal that separates them from Nottingham, Fulham and Tottenham at home and Wolves and West Ham at home. If Guardiola’s team adds those fifteen points at stake, no one will be able to catch up, not even Arsenal, which now leads it by one point, but has played one more game. Liverpool is third, three points behind the leader and also just four games to go, after their fiasco this Wednesday at Everton.
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Jason Steele, Lewis Dunk, Jan Paul van Hecke, Valentín Barco, Veltman (Odell Offiah, min. 45), Groß, João Pedro, Jakub Moder (Igor Julio, min. 56), Carlos Baleba, Lallana (Simon Adingra, min. 45) and Welbeck (Mark O’Mahony, min. 75)
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Ederson Moraes, Aké, Manuel Akanji, Walker (Rico Lewis, min. 78), Gvardiol, Bernardo Silva (Jeremy Doku, min. 78), Foden (Grealish, min. 71), Rodrigo (Sergio Gómez, min. 78), De Bruyne (Matheus, min. 71), Kovacic and Julián Álvarez
Goals 0-1 min. 16: De Bruyne. 0-2 min. 25: Foden. 0-3 min. 33: Foden. 0-4 min. 61: Julián Álvarez.
Referee Jarred Gillett
Yellow cards Veltman (min. 35) and Carlos Baleba (min. 76)
City won with sufficiency a match that seemed uncomfortable due to the specificity of Brighton, a team that without the ball poses individual duels all over the field and with the ball at its feet tries to find spaces and superiorities from its own area. The plan was dismantled because City’s value is that of the team that, from its script, dominates several records. Everything opened with a cross into the area, a service from Walker that De Bruyne finished off with a graceful header. plongeon. Almost immediately, fortune helped Foden, who had been at the origin of the first goal, when Gross’s back deflected a direct free kick from the English talent into the net. Barely after half an hour, Foden himself took advantage of the pressure from the daring rival when the ball came out from behind to score again. He put together passes in a sensitive area for Brighton, to whom some sly person could have said that “how much damage Guardiola has done to football!” The ball sometimes closes strange circles.
The fact is that Brighton maintains the most excellent consistency in its history because coach Roberto De Zerbi interprets a score that rewards more than punishes. To give him a beating, no one is better suited than Guardiola, whose squad correctly interpreted every moment of the match. And also, given the rival’s vigor to match up and go up lines, City has one of the goalkeepers with the best footing on the planet. In the fourth goal, Ederson acted as regista to place a fifty-meter pass and enable the unmarking of the winger Walker, who galloped into the area to give Julián Álvarez a goal.
Already with the sentence, and although Brighton was struggling with a certain spark against its luck, Guardiola called Foden and De Bruyne to the reserve first and shortly after Walker, Bernardo Silva and Rodri. On Saturday, Nottingham Forest awaits them, who are fighting for permanence.
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