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England
Today, in the central match of the 29th round of the English Premier League, in the duel between the teams with the most titles in the last season, Manchester “City” convincingly defeated “Liverpool” 4:1 at home.
Right from the beginning of the match, the advantage in both shots and ball control belonged to the home team, Riyad Mahrez created the most dangerous moment in the 15th minute after a standard situation, but the result was opened by Liverpool, with Mohamed Salah standing out with an accurate shot in the 17th minute. Mahrez had another great chance to score shortly after, but the tie was restored on the scoreboard in the 27th minute. “City” was able to put Jack Grealish in a grateful position with a quick transition in attack, who in turn found Julián Alvarez in front of the goal with an accurate pass – the Argentinian had to send the ball into an empty goal (1:1).
The score remained unchanged until the half-time break, but Manchester opened up after the break. Immediately in the first attack at the beginning of the second half, Kevin De Bruyne put City in the lead, in the 53rd minute after a long match after a ball bounced by Liverpool goalkeeper Alison, Ilkay Gindogan scored the first goal, and in the 74th minute Grealish took part in the second goal – City’s first goal he assisted, but this time he was on target himself, settling the final score. “Liverpool” made four substitutions before the home team’s fourth goal, but they failed to break the flow of the game. It should be mentioned that the best sniper of the Premier League, Erling Holland, did not play for the Manchester team due to injury.
At the end of 2023, “Liverpool” suffered its fifth loss, which currently forces it to be outside the Eurocup zone, or in sixth place, while “City”, thanks to its success, was able to get closer to the leading London “Arsenal” for a few hours, which is also at home with a result of 4 :1 beat Leeds United. Citizens and gunners eight points separate the tournament table. True, “City” has one game in reserve.
5 – Liverpool have lost five of their 10 Premier League matches in 2023, already more defeats than in the whole of 2022 (P35 W24 D7 L4). Downturn. pic.twitter.com/NFtFOnBZtU
— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) April 1, 2023
Pep Guardiola has won his 100th Premier League game in charge of Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium in his 128th game.
He becomes the fastest manager to reach a century of victories at a single venue, overtaking Arsene Wenger (139 games at Highbury). ???? pic.twitter.com/Tg8IsbV6e7
— Squawka (@Squawka) April 1, 2023
Unstable performance continues to be demonstrated by the London “Chelsea”, which made 27 shots on its field, but lost 0:2 to “Aston Villa”. The victories were celebrated by Crystal Palace (2:1 against Leicester City), Bournemouth (2:1 against Fulham), while Brighton and Brentford (3:3), as well as Nottingham Forest and Wolverhampton “Wanderers” (1:1) in the duels, the winners were not determined.
Germany
In the match of the 26th round of the German football Bundesliga, Munich “Bayern”, scoring three goals already in the first half, safely defeated Dortmund “Borussia” and climbed to the first place in the tournament table. Bayern beat Borussia 4-2 (3-0) at home, recovering from their defeat against Bayer Leverkusen in the previous round.
The home team took the lead after just 13 minutes played when Dayo Upamecano made a long pass forward from about the middle of the field and the visiting goalkeeper, who was trying to intercept the pass at that time, missed the ball and rolled into the goal of the Dortmund team. On the other hand, in the 18th minute, Tomas Miller made it 2-0, to whom Matijs de Ligt passed the ball to the front of the goal after a corner kick.
“Bayern” striker Leeroy Sane successfully played in the defense and got to the ball, but his shot was saved by the goalkeeper, and Miller was the first to the rebound, who had to send it into the goal from close range (3:0). In the second half, the home team needed only five minutes to score their fourth goal, this time Kingsley Coman successfully completed the attack. In the 72nd minute, the Dortmund team scored the first goal, when Emre Dzhan executed a penalty kick accurately, but in the last minute of regular time, the deficit was reduced to two goals by Doniels Mullen.
About a week ago, Thomas Tuchel took over the leadership of the Munich team, who also managed to win on his debut as a head coach. “Bayern” with 55 points in 26 games occupies the first place in the tournament table, while “Borussia” is one position below with 53 points.
In other matches, “Mainz” (against “Leipzig”), “Bayer” Leverkusen (against “Schalke”), “Union” Berlin (against “Stuttgart”) celebrated victories with an identical score of 3:0, “Wolfsburg” played back two at the end of the second half. goal deficit and took a point against “Augsburg” (2:2), while fourth-placed “Freiburg” played a draw against relegation zone “Hertha” Berlin (1:1).
