Mauricio Pochettino and Pep Guardiola They paid a monumental tribute to football in a Chelsea-City that exhausted the qualifiers. The 4-4 says it all. It summarizes the great game at Stamford Bridge between two teams that played openly on the attack.
In the end, the point helps City to continue leading the Premier League, although now with only one point ahead of Liverpool and Arsenal. On November 25, after the national team break, the Etihad will attend a City-Liverpool summit. The excitement in the Premier is guaranteed.
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City began by exercising the control of the ball that characterizes them, with Chelsea looking for counterattacks, but barely any chances had been created when the hitherto unprecedented Haaland caused a penalty after understanding the VAR that Marc Cucurella grabbed him when both struggled in a center.
Haaland converted the maximum penalty against the only team, Chelsea, against whom he failed to score in the Premier in his stratospheric last season (25′).
The best version of Chelsea
But Chelsea, which on Monday fell from the lead to Tottenham (1-4), once again gave its best version against a ‘Big Six’ in another spectacular match.
Reece James, one of the standouts, forced Ederson to show off a free-kick before Thiago Silva, at 39 years old, established the first tie in a corner with a cross header at the near post (29′).
No reservations
The 1-1 score gave way to a frenetic fight, without reservations, between two launched teams. Phil Foden made it 1-2 with a screwed shot that miraculously missed the goal, but Chelsea, with James, an extraordinary Cole Palmer and Raheem Sterling as daggers, He put City in trouble with quick transitions.
James and Palmer, who left against the team he left in the summer, connected wonderfully on the right and, in one of those connections between the two, Josko Gvardiol was clumsy in cutting off the advance and James took advantage of it to put a pass of death that Sterling only had to push into the net (37′).
Akanji makes it 1-2
Haaland He was already fully involved in the game and had a very clear chance, one of which he does not usually forgive, after receiving from Bernardo Silva with space and his tremendous low shot found the superb replica of Robert Sánchez with a paradón.
Just before the break Manuel Akanji balanced the score again by heading unmarked a cross from Bernardo Silva after a short corner (45+1′).
Doblete de Haaland
As soon as the second half began, City moved forward again. a lethal counterattack that Haaland completed, after a golden pass from Julián Álvarez, sweeping the ball with his body, throwing himself onto the grass with everything. It is the Norwegian’s 13th goal in 12 Premier games.
It seemed that City were on their way to imposing their law at Stamford Bridge but nothing could be further from the truth. Although he gave the feeling that he could sentence with 2-4, Cole Palmer resisted throwing in the towel with an incredible attack between several rivals that only frustrated Ederson in the one-on-one.
Nico Jackson signs up for the festival
Missing from the football festival provided by Chelsea and City was Nico Jackson, author of a hat trick against Tottenham, and The former Villarreal player made it 3-3 at will after Ederson rejected a long shot from Connor Gallagher.
Both teams wanted more goals, it could have fallen from either side. The newcomer Malo Gusto forgave the 4-3 after receiving only from Sterling and shooting high.
Dramatic culmination
The exciting duel was once again decided in favor of City thanks to the player of the great occasions, Rodri, whose low shot after a defensive rebound rebounded off Thiago Silva and dislocated Robert Sánchez.
But Pochettino led to a new twist in the script betting on Armando Broja in the 90th minute and the Albanian, after controlling a cross from Sterling, forced the penalty in stoppage time when he was run over by Rúben Dias. Cole Palmer didn’t hesitate and converted it to make it 4-4. Fair reward for the great game that the young Citizens’ youth player scored. He did not celebrate it despite the significance of his goal.
Formation: 4231 Premier League playing field 1 24 3 8 2 6 20 25 15 23 7 31 16 25 24 3 2 19 20 9 47 11
1Robert Sánchez
Ederson31
Rodri16 71′ 85′
3Marc Cucurella 20′
Manuel Akanji25 45′
If Gvardiol24
2Axel Disasi
Rúben Dias3
6Thiago Silva 28′
Kyle Walker2
20Cole Palmer
22′
94′
25Moises Caicedo 59′ 89′
Bernardo Silva20
15Nicolas Jackson
66′
93′
95′
Erling Haaland9 24′ 46′
23Conor Gallagher
Phil Foden47
7Raheem Sterling
36′
96′
28Djordje Petrovic
Stefan Ortega18
5Benoît Badiashile
Scott Carson33
Rico Lewis82
29Ian Maatsen
Kalvin Phillips4
11 Noni Madueke
Matheus Nunes27
Oscar Bobb52
52Alex Matos
Mauricio Pochettino
Pep Guardiola
2023-11-13 05:17:52
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