At 23 o'clock on December 30, Beijing time, the 20th round of the 2023-24 English Premier League season will be contested, and the defending champion Manchester City will play at home against promoted Sheffield United. In this game, Manchester City at home opened the scoring through Rodri and Julián Alvarez doubled the score to a 2-0 win over Sheffield United.
This round marks the start of the second half of the Premier League season and the end of the year. The final battle is at home against the vice-captain Sheffield United, Manchester City is bound to win, and because there is a large gap in the strength of the two sides, this game is almost Manchester City in the dominance of the game!
In the 14th minute, Manchester City forced a steal in front, Foden gave the ball to Rodri, who dribbled all the way to the penalty area to complete the goal, Manchester City led Sheffield United 1-0. In the second half of the game, in the 61st minute, 20-year-old Oscar Bob passed the ball to Foden on the side of the front field, Foden crossed Alvarez in the penalty area to score a goal to expand the score, Foden contributed 2 assists in this game, which was Foden's sixth assist in the Premier League this season, which set a new personal single-season Premier League assist record.
In the end, the score was also locked at 2-0, and Manchester City won the final game of 2023! This game Manchester City can be described as a landslide victory, except that the score is not big enough, Manchester City's statistics in the whole game are almost suppressive, from the point of view of possession, Manchester City accounted for 82%, 18 shots on goal, and as many as 12 corners. With this win, Manchester City have won two consecutive Premier League games and are unbeaten in four consecutive games.
At present, Manchester City is temporarily third in the Premier League standings with 40 points from 12 wins, 4 draws and 3 losses, only 2 points behind Liverpool at the top of the table. Sheffield United suffered 2 consecutive defeats in the Premier League and 4 rounds without a win, Sheffield United only got 2 wins after 20 rounds of the Premier League, and Sheffield United won 2 wins, 3 draws, 15 losses and only 9 points from the results, Sheffield United ranked at the bottom of the Premier League standings.