The first league game of the new year, Manchester City successfully won the top of the league table after a small victory over Arsenal, and at the same time they also ushered in the third round of the FA Cup, their opponent is Svendon, who is still in the 4th level of English football, compared to Manchester City, who has 7 top league titles, has successfully won 6 titles in the FA Cup, and other cups are countless teams, Swindon is just a weak team that has been hovering between League One and League Two for many years, and their glory dates back to 1968/ In the 1969 season, they successfully won the only English League Cup title in the club's history, and it can be said that the suspense of this game is almost nothing!
In this game, many players in Manchester City were plagued by injuries and could not play, and due to the spread of the new crown epidemic in England, many players could not play, but fortunately, Guardiola also had main players like Gundogan, Rodri, De Bruyne and Ruben Díaz to play, and the bench could only add some second-team players on standby.
And Swindon's side is not much of an impact, but they are quite loving on the sidelines to give the opponent Manchester City a heartwarming move, it turns out that Guardiola has been confirmed to be infected with the new crown before, this game at the Swinden home stadium he is already sure not to be present, and after learning this news, Swinden's boss and CEO recorded a video together to wish Guardiola a speedy recovery, it is really full of patterns.
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But off the field they are friends, on the field they are opponents. Palmer, the 19-year-old who took over Forden's place at the beginning, sent a diagonal pass directly from the right to find Bernardo Silva, who broke the barrier to make the score 0-1.
And then Bernardo Silva was playing again, and he came to knock on the mountain and shock the tiger, but unfortunately the ball was slightly offside. However, Manchester City still firmly controlled the rhythm of the game with the advantage of staffing, and then faced the big foot of the Swindon goalkeeper in the 28th minute, but the defender was a stop-ball error that caused the ball to come to the feet of Jesus, who and de Bruyne made a collision with the wall and directly faced the goalkeeper to send the ball into the dead corner, such as 0-2.
After the start of the second half, Swindon also did not flinch, but in the face of Manchester City's excessive strength gap so that the battle between giants and humans, De Bruyne, Rodri and Gundogan's midfield trio is too cruel, and in the 59th minute Manchester City relied on technical advantages in the front of the box to obtain a perfect free kick, the referee Gundogan rolled the ball out of an arc and ran around the defender's wall directly to the bottom left corner of the goal. The goalkeeper reacted due to eye disturbances but the ball was already in the net, and the score became 0-3, while Gundogan also broke the team's free kick goal drought in the FA Cup since 2018.
Then Manchester City made a substitution to let the young player on the bench get the opportunity to play, De Bruyne was replaced by McCarty to rest, and then Swindon also made adjustments to replace the midfielder and the defender ready to fight to the death, and this is also received a certain result, in the face of Manchester City's tired moment of substitution at this time, Svenden seized the opportunity to pull back a goal in the 77th minute, Jonathan, who had just changed the field, broke through with the ball and split the ball to the right, and then McKierty entered the box to push the ball directly into the small angle of the box, successfully pulling back a goal, After scoring a goal for the championship team, the entire home stadium fans cheered with excitement.
And finally today's outstanding performance of the young player Palmer's goal is still coming, under the siege of Manchester City, palmer on the right side has been in the penalty area encountered by the opponent of a number of players surrounded, but because in the penalty area they also dare not make any big moves to avoid being awarded penalties, and then he shook off the defenders and dodged the angle of an arc ball directly into the goal of the far foot, while killing the game, he also won the best post-game performance with one shot and one pass. It can be said that his performance in this position is not inferior to Foden, and it seems that Manchester City Prince Foden is also facing competition for the post.