With Julián Alvarez as the starter, Manchester City beat Everton 2-0 with a double from Erling Haaland, who dressed as the savior in the 71st minute to put an end to the resistance of the Liverpool team, who held out as long as they could with a solid defense that allowed few dangerous actions.
The thing is that although Guardiola’s men had the ball almost all the time and pushed their attack towards the visiting goal, the statistics do not lie: until the Norwegian’s goal they had had 14 opportunities but no shots towards Jordan Pickford’s goal.
Manchester City couldn’t find a way back into the game. Julián showed his usual dedication but he did not have the best game, he was seen to be imprecise and making bad decisions, which is why it was not surprising that Pep replaced him five minutes after Haaland’s goal. The one from Calchín has been playing almost always in the last two months, filling the gaps left by some of his teammates, such as Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne, now recovered from their injuries.
The Belgian was a substitute and took the field 10 minutes into the second half, to try to open Everton’s strong defense, with 9 of his ten field players inside the area. Until 1-0, Haaland had touched it little or not at all, and Phil Foden, another of City’s stars, was not fine. The best was another man from Belgium, the young Jérémy Doku, 21 years old, a very spicy left winger who always overflowed but could not find partners.
A corner gave City the partial victory, with a ball that the Dutchman Nathan Aké fought and that remained dead so that Haaland took a bomb from top to bottom that broke poor Pickford’s goal. A while later, in ’85, the Norwegian appeared again to settle the story and unleash the celebration with Guardiola’s anger.
With these three points, the Citizens move one point ahead of Liverpool, who plays later, and are the new leaders of the Premier League when they still have a game to play (at home against Brentford).
In a while they will play Liverpool against Burnley in the legendary Anfield stadium starting at 12 (Argentina time) and with television on the Star + platform.
. The complete schedule for date 24 of the Premier League is as follows:
. A las 9.30: Manchester City-Everton
. A las 12: Wolverhampton-Brentford; Fulham-Bournemouth; Tottenham Hotspur-Brighton; Luton-Sheffield United y Liverpool-Burnley.
. A las 14.30: Nottingham Forest-Newcastle United.
. A las 11: West Ham United-Arsenal
. A las 13.30: Aston Villa-Manchester United
. A las 17: Crystal Palace-Chelsea
. Positions:
Liverpool 51 puntos; Manchester City y Arsenal 49; Aston Villa 46; Tottenham Hotspur 44; Manchester United 38; West Ham United 36; Brighton 35; Newcastle United 33; Wolverhampton 32; Chelsea 31; Bournemouth 27; Crystal Palace 24; Brentford 22; Nottingham Forest 21; Luton 20; Everton 19; Burnley 13 y Sheffield United 10.
2024-02-10 12:36:12
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