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Tops / Flops Dortmund-Man. City: Foden as a hero, Haaland sticks out his tongue

2021-04-14T22:07:54.323Z


The decisive cannon shot from Phil Foden but also the non-match of the BVB attack and more precisely Erling Haaland: find the tops / flops of Dortmund-Manchester City (1-2).


Tops

Foden makes an appointment


Manchester City's qualification bears the seal of its British gem.

After getting his family out of a bad step in the first leg thanks to his goal on the gong (2-1), the 20-year-old attacking midfielder, discreet for one half, ended up passing the second.

Deflected by hand by Emre Can, his cross leads to the equalizer penalty (55th).

20 minutes later, his dry strike from the entrance to the surface deceives Marvin Hitz, to kill all suspense (75th).

Without wanting to play the game of comparisons, Phil Foden has just achieved a performance in all points similar with Kylian Mbappé, whom he will find in the semifinals.

“Are you ready?” He told her on Twitter.

It promises !

2 - Phil Foden (20) is the 2nd youngest player to score in the 2 Champions League quarter-final matches behind Kylian Mbappé who did so against… Dortmund in 2017 (18).

Echo.

# BVBMCIpic.twitter.com / KZux5N7YKD

- OptaJean (@OptaJean) April 14, 2021

The De Bruyne guide


He never panicked.

Or a few minutes, the time to get back to the place.

The City captain then took everything in his path.

If he did not score, unlike the first leg, the 29-year-old Belgian once again had an overflowing activity.

Often starting from the left side, as on this rush concluded by a deflected strike for a corner by Hitz before the goal (74th), De Bruyne put to death a BVB too tender for him.

He could even have precipitated the return of his family much earlier without his overpowering strike crashing on the bar (25th). 

Bellingham's dream week


After scoring his first goal with BVB in the league last weekend, the British midfielder opened the scoring with a perfect strike that came to rest in the top corner of Ederson (15th).

A kind of revenge in view of his goal curiously refused in the first leg (1-2).

At 17, the Birmingham defector has become the second youngest player to score at this stage of the competition behind former Barcelona player Bojan Krkic.

Especially, at this moment, hope was allowed, especially as the tireless midfielder was even employed in defense, as on this heroic rescue in front of Bernardo Silva (31st).

Warned for having cut Foden on the counter-attack (39th), he then gradually disappeared from the debates after the break, like all his teammates.

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Flops

Halaland's mishap 


The famine continues for the Norwegian, who has now been silent for four meetings with the BVB.

Already silent during the international window, the “Cyborg” is going through a period of doubt that was unknown to him until then.

This Wednesday, he was completely absent from the debates on the offensive plan.

Lonely (25 balls played, second lowest total of the match), he waited until the 90th minute to arm from the left and send a right strike into the Yellow Wall.

As a symbol of his failed match.

If his defensive ecot has long been important, especially on corners, it is he who hides his goalkeeper on Foden's strike.

When it doesn't want to ...

An almost harmless BVB


Borussia dreamed of achievement, and the dream was entertained for almost a half, between the goal of Bellingham and that of Mahrez.

But overall, Edin Terzic's men worried too little about the citizen rearguard, led, it is true, by a duo of rocks (Stones-Dias).

Despite a brief highlight at the start of the match, the animation was struggling, like Halaland but also Marco Reus.

As for the poker move to establish Ansgar Knauff (19 years), as on the first leg, it was hardly fruitful, while the entrants tried somehow to dynamite an amorphous attack (7 shots, 3 on target). 

Can, the farewell hand


His hand fault on Foden's seemingly innocuous cross is costly.

Very expensive.

Transformed by Riyad Mahrez, the penalty conceded by the German confirmed the domination of Manchester City but above all condemned his own.

Previously, the defensive midfielder (27) had suffered from the comparison with his midfielder, the hyperactive Dahoud (4 strikes) and the striker Bellingham.

The former Liverpool midfielder then dived, losing too many balls under pressure.

But he never gave up, evidenced by his distant strike at the end of the match, as a last stand (89th).

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Source: lefigaro

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