TOPS/FLOPS – Jérémy Doku and Rayan Aït-Nouri were excellent on their side, Haaland made a superb entrance and Kalulu sank. Find the tops and flops after the demonstration of Manchester City against Juventus (5-2), Thursday in Orlando.
TOPS
Untenable doku and aït-nouri on their left side
Combinations and dribbles to spare. Jérémy Doku and Rayan Aït-Nouri were excellent on the left side of the Skyblues attack. The hooks and devastating kidney strokes of the Belgian have particularly put in difficulty the Turin defense. Pierre Kalulu and Lloyd Kelly suffered. The Algerian well supported his attacker during the offensive phases, he often split and centered. The side has always been relevant. Doku unlocked the match by scoring the first goal from the 9th minute of play. On a beautiful deep pass which pierced the last Italian line, the twirling winger crocheted and left Kalulu on the spot to finish a strike placed in the small left net of Di Gregorio. Replaced in the 66th minute by Phil Foden, who also went there from his goal.
Haaland’s impressive school year
Omar Marmoush achieved an interesting first half but probably not enough for Pep Guardiola. The Spanish coach has chosen to launch Erling Haaland just after the break and we can say that this choice was paid. The Norwegian cyborg has made a superb entry into the axis. He moved the Bianconeri defenders, at the expense of Savona, released on injury. The scorer almost scored in his first action before finding the net in the 52nd minute, allowing his club to make the break. Haaland then continued to be stressful. Found in depth, he dribbled his vis-à-vis to serve Savinho. The Brazilian, also author of a very good performance, transmits it to Foden who only has to finish in the empty goal. Note the exceptional strike of the Auriverde winger on the fifth and last goal of Manchester City.
FLOPS
Current baladé par Doku
The hooks of Jérémy Doku, the speed of Rayan Aït-Nouri, that is enough to feed the nightmares of Pierre Kalulu for the next few days. Aspired by Marmoush on the first goal (9th), the French international turns in time to cope with the Belgian in the surface, he hooked him easily and scored the first goal of the match behind. A quarter of an hour later, Matheus Nunes center strong at the ground just in front of the goal of Di Gregorio. No Manchester City player is able to score, Pierre Kalulu takes care of it (15th). The counterter-cam is quite incomprehensible, we don’t really see what the young defender wanted to do, probably put the ball in corner. After these two errors, no other big blunders to point out, but the Frenchman continued to be walked by City attackers. After the release of Doku, Savinho, Foden and Cherki took over. One thing is certain, Pierre Kalulu had a bad evening.
An outcry collective
Yes, it was not the typical team. Thuram, Yildiz and Conceição missed the call, but the Turinois were crushed by pressing and mastery of Manchester City players. If they tried to get out of their half of the field and rather succeeded in the first period, the second half was a ordeal. Completely cornered in their last thirty meters, the Bianconeri have undergone the offensives of the Citizens. The blue waves have not stopped breaking up and the Juventini sank by collecting five goals. An invisible Vlahovic saved the honor (84th) by reducing the gap, it is his only good action of the match. We can question the choices of Igor Tudor. The first place in the group was at stake but it turned a lot. Kolo Muani has not even entered. We would have liked to see the typical team rubbing this Manchester City not always reassuring defensively.
