Guardiola’s City beat Brighton to take another step towards the Premier League
He Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City This Thursday he showed that it will be very difficult for him to miss this Premier League, which will be City’s fourth, thereby setting a new record in English football. He Brighton Roberto De Zerbi Everything started well, in a good first quarter of an hour, but City Then he introduced his law and approved the score 0:4 in favor of the Seagulls.
Thus, although he remains the leader of the Prime Minister Mikel Arteta’s ArsenalThe Gunners team now has a one point advantage over the team City2nd and awaiting match (vs. Tottenham and they will play it on May 14th). He Liverpool is in 3rd place, 3 points behind Arsenalafter being left with few options following a 2-0 defeat to the Reds. Everton on Wednesday at the Merseyside Classic.
Brighton: Steele; Veltman (Adingra, 46′), Van Hecke, Dunk, Barco; Baleba, Moder (Igor Julio, 56′), Lallana (Offia, 46′), Gros, Joao Pedro; Welbeck (O’Mahony 75′)
Manchester city: Ederson; Walker (Lewis 79′), Akanji, Ake, Guardiol; Bernardo Silva (Doku, 78′), De Bruyne (Mateus Nunez, 72′), Rodri (Sergio Gomez, 79′), Kovacic, Foden (Jack Grealish, 72′); Julian Alvarez
Goals: 0:1 K. De Bruyne (17′), 0:2 Phil Foden (26′), 0:3 Phil Foden (34′), 0:4 Julian Alvarez (62′)
Cards: YELLOW: Veltman (35 minutes), Carlos Baleba (76 minutes)
Judge: Jared Gillette
Spectators: 31,596 at Amex
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It all started with some problems Manchester City vs Brighton. They ended in the 17th minute when Kevin De Bruyne scored a stellar goal: diving straight in like a battering ram, nothing less than the first headed goal scored by a Belgian in his entire Premier League career (in which he has a total of 68 ‘goals’ “).
From here it was night City at The Amex and Brighton couldn’t stop it. Because what came next was double Phil Foden it’s still raging. The English player scored from a free kick in the 26th minute and passed the ball. Bernard Silva at the 34th minute.
The score became 0:4 in the second half, in the 62nd minute, and its author was Julian Alvarez. The main character in both Edersonwith a long pass that he collected Kyle Walker who controlled the ball and provided his second assist of the evening, in this case to the Argentine world champion, who had not scored since March 6 (in a victory over Copenhagen in “Champions”).
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He Brighton had the opportunity to close the gap and disguise the result, some of Joao Pedro, which he was unable to take advantage of. The referee did not award a penalty to himself Joao Pedro. Ansu Fati He was a replacement. From Zerbi He did not give a single minute in the match with the “citizens” to the striker, rented from Barcelona. Jason Steele team goalkeeper Brightonintervened at the end to prevent Doku scored the fifth goal for the “citizens”.