Manchester City turned things around as they beat Brentford to finish second in the Premier League

Manchester City could not relax. And, in fact, he did not do this, although he started down the scoreboard. To give more title contention, the Spanish coach’s team needed a new win against Brentford, an opponent to whom they had lost their last two official matches. The Bees, struggling for consistency, are a dangerous team and they proved that against Tottenham. With the win, City achieved their sixth successive success in this year’s tournament and scored 20 goals. On the other hand, Brentford have lost eight of their last 10 games, drawn one and won another.

He return of goalscorer Erling Haaland, who added minutes to the win over Burnley, was big news as he started again. Meanwhile, Brentford remain the only Premier League team the Norwegian striker has yet to score against. The Argentine also entered the eleven Julian Alvarez, who He just did a double on his birthday last Wednesday.

In the ninth minute of the game, Alvarez warned the opponent with a strong shot to the left post, which sent Mark Flekken into the corner. Just four minutes later it was Kyle Walker who nearly opened the scoring, in his case with another right-footed shot from mid-range that the Dutch goalkeeper saved to his right. Another sign that City began to enter the home zone and play well from the very beginning of the match.

But Guardiola’s team received a strong blow: Flekken’s ball, the poor positioning of City’s central defenders, who did not accept Neal Maupay, and the Franco-Argentine waited for the ball to hit and ran with it in a straight line to the goal to determine the ball Ederson declares the score 1:0 in the 21st minute. It was nonsense for local fans and a splash of cold water for the reigning Champions League and Club World Cup champions.

While the kick was still reverberating through the stadium, another Manchester City attack followed and was met by Haaland, but Flekken avoided the fall with a one-foot save. The visitors continued to possess the ball, spinning it and looking for irregularities, but unable to break the goalkeeper’s resistance. But it wasn’t just City who kept looking in different ways: in the 38th minute Brentford warned again with a left-footed shot from Spaniard Sergio Reguilon that appeared to hit Ederson but the Brazilian managed to cover it. Meanwhile, there was another danger as Belgian Kevin De Bruyne’s long-range strike, which was saved by the local goalkeeper, again earned all the plaudits.

And when they seemed to go to rest, The gift came from Jamaican Ethan Pinnock: the defender wanted to head the ball, but he left the shot in the center of the penalty area, and the ball was served to Foden, who even managed to stop the ball and prepare to shoot. his left leg, strong, is lowered down, not giving Flekken, the great figure, a chance. Without a doubt, the draw on the pitch was fairer as City attacked much more. Both failed badly and paid dearly for it.

The start of the line-up once again showed City to be active and Foden reappeared and scored. The Englishman did not recognize himself in the penalty area, took advantage of an excellent cross from the Belgian midfielder and fired low, onto the left post of the local goalkeeper, who was able to touch the ball but not stop it. Thus, after eight minutes the meeting ended with a score of 2:1.. The owner of the house was for equality, but the greater collective wealth of the city could do more and Foden again, aged 25, made it 3-1, receiving a superb pass from Haaland in the wide area, giving him time to pick a spot to make a soft touch with his left foot, to the right of Flekken, who again had to suffer the Englishman, winner of a sensational hat-trick .

Thus, in the presence of Manchester City, he won another victory, the ninth in a row, in a series that began in the semi-finals of the Club World Cup. And this had the particular benefit of creating a desire to beat Brentford, opponents who had just beaten City in their previous two games, and putting more pressure on Liverpool in the Premier League.