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Manchester City thrashes Newcastle and their own anxiety

2022-05-08T19:22:36.595Z


Pep Guardiola's side increase their lead over Liverpool to three points with nine to play Straight Raheem Sterling scores Manchester City's fifth goal.PETER POWELL (EFE) In the Islands there is a debate about whether Manchester City should do without Pep Guardiola, accused of not winning the Champions League. Meanwhile, the team increases its advantage at the head of the Premier League and is ductile, with its well-known skill in combination play, vertical when the situation requires


Straight

Raheem Sterling scores Manchester City's fifth goal.PETER POWELL (EFE)

In the Islands there is a debate about whether Manchester City should do without Pep Guardiola, accused of not winning the Champions League.

Meanwhile, the team increases its advantage at the head of the Premier League and is ductile, with its well-known skill in combination play, vertical when the situation requires it, which in England is often and, above all, very strong in the offensive actions from set pieces.

City beat Newcastle (5-0) with those weapons to increase their distance over Liverpool on this day, from which they are already separated by three points when there are nine left to play.

MNCM.

City

5

Ederson Moraes, Zinchenko, Cancelo, Rúben Dias (Fernandinho, min. 45), Laporte (CJ Egan Riley, min. 86), Grealish, De Bruyne, Gündogan, Rodrigo, Sterling and Gabriel Jesus (Foden, min. 63)

NEW Newcastle

0

Martin Dubravka, Dan Burn, Krafth (Trippier, min. 67), Jamaal Lascelles, Matt Targett, Bruno Guimarães, Sean Longstaff, Joelinton, Wood (Callum Wilson, min. 67), Miguel Ángel Almirón (Murphy, min. 79) and Saint-Maximin

Goals

1-0 min.

18: Sterling.

2-0 min.

37: Laporte.

3-0 min.

60: Rodrigo.

4-0 min.

89: Foden.

5-0 min.

92: Sterling.

Referee

Stuart Attwell

Yellow cards Bruno Guimarães (min. 30), Dan Burn (min. 69), De Bruyne (min. 74) and Matt Targett (min. 88)

It doesn't seem likely that a team that has missed out on four points from the last 27 they've competed for is going to drop the same loot in three games.

It may even be that, even if Liverpool were full, by losing three points along the way, it would come to be champion.

Everything would then depend on the overall goal difference.

That is why City applied themselves to keep that trick and did not put the brakes on until they heard three whistle blasts from the referee, scored and scored in a few minutes that in another context would be accessories and in that concrete need to varnish their goal difference they found the balm I needed.

Because, in addition, that they do not speak to them these days about improbable situations.

The City plays against the anxiety that surrounds him because he opposes the Champions League as if he were going to notice.

Does not reach.

Perhaps that feeling also begins to nest in the booth.

"Madrid was incredible and the mood wasn't through the roof, but we knew we had to wake up and show the personality we have as a team," summed up midfielder Rodri after the game.

The team looked more troubled than usual at the start of the match against tough Newcastle.

He woke up clueless in defense and without his usual resources to hold the reins of the game through the ball.

The goals, a consequence of so many things that the team does well, placed him in the game.

The first was a balm, a beauty that came after two headers in the area between Cancelo and Sterling, one of the four refreshments that Guardiola introduced in the eleven with respect to the team that opened last Wednesday's game in Madrid.

The others were Zinchenko, Gundogan and Grealish.

Walker was out cold, Foden played half an hour, and Bernardo Silva and Mahrez stayed by Guardiola's side.

Without a doubt

The goal settled several issues in the City, especially those that had to do with the handling in the opposite field, but it did not give him back.

Rúben Dias was between cottons and ended up leaving the game at halftime, again injured.

Before Newcastle had stripped behind with shipments to the area.

New Zealand's Wood scored from a corner, but Guimaraes' offside thwarted the visitors' equaliser.

Shortly after, the second local blow came, a goal signed by Laporte, always alive to catch rebounds in the rival area.

And Newcastle, that nothing was played for qualifying purposes, blurred their offensive ambitions.

Still, he never stopped finding ways to Ederson.

Pushed by his people, who after so many years of misery know the value of victory, City overcame their defensive ailments.

The leader of the Premier played with passion, protected by a grandstand that was encouraged to sing the cry of champions, as if with that extemporaneous revelry he was exorcising what happened at the Bernabéu, as if they had to remind his boys that, in effect, they are some winners.

Guardiola was also in that line in his summary before the microphones.

"Doubts?

We've been doing this every three days for five years.

If someone doubts us, it is because he does not know us”.

Rodri scored his sixth goal in this championship with a shot coming out of a corner that points to the Mallorcan Carlos Vicens, the architect of the team's set pieces, who after a year in the City first team has accepted an offer to train Heracles Dutch.

Nothing stopped.

Newcastle opened up in search of the goal and City responded fiercely so that goals from Foden and Sterling took them not only three points above their pursuer, Liverpool, but also four goals ahead in the locker to consider in case of final equality, an interesting mattress if one considers that among the three duels that remain for the team two trips remain, first to Wolverhampton this Wednesday, and then to London, to face the dangerous West Ham.

Everton out of relegation

At the rear of the table, Everton relieved themselves with a win (1-2) in Leicester that took them out of the relegation places.

That's where Leeds United falls, defeated (2-1) at the Emirates Stadium by Arsenal, who walks towards fourth position and the return to the Champions League, with a four-point advantage over Tottenham, with whom he crosses next Thursday .

If the team coached by the recently renewed Mikel Arteta wins, he will return to the great European competition after five seasons of abstinence.

Everything remains to be resolved.

City and Liverpool opt for the championship.

Chelsea, Arsenal and Tottenham play for two places in the Champions League.

Manchester United must keep the sixth place that gives them access to the Europa League against West Ham, who have to look askance at Wolverhampton to repeat on the continent.

And Everton, Burnley and Leeds are in a handkerchief of a point not to lose the category from which Watford and Norwich already know they will fall.

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