Manchester City revolves in a fateful spiral. He started by an misfortune, then another joined, and another, and another. Thus since September. Today Christmas approaches as a storm. The Guardiola team is harmed all accidents. If there is a rejection, the contrary is going. If there is a rebound, it benefits the rival. If a goalkeeper works a prodigy is that of the opposition. If a ball poses in the goal line, and it is the line that takes care of Ederson, it is a goal against. This is how Vlahovic put 1-0. For Las Bravas. After two centers to the pot, a luck that has become the terror of the blue defense. The City controlled the game for almost an hour. He had the chances. He had the ball. But Juventus, quartered in its area, enjoyed a cruise. The final 2-0 puts the English team in a serious problem. In the 22nd position, in the cornice that appears to the direct elimination matched to eight points with PSV and Dinamo de Zagreb.
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Michele di Gregorio, Pierre Kalulu, Nicolò Savona, Federico Gatti, Danilo, Khéphren Thum (Weston McKennie, Min. 68), Francisco Conceição (Timothy Weah, Min. 68), Kenan Yildiz (Samuel Mbangula, Min. 83), Manuel Locatelli) , Teun Koopmeiners y Dusan Vlahovic (Douglas Luiz, Min. 84)
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Ederson, Kyle Walker, Rico Lewis, Josko Gvardiol, Rúben Dias, Jérémy Doku (Savinho, Min. 78), Ilkay Gündogan, Kevin de Bruyne, Jack Grealish (Matheus Nunes, Min. 86) Haaland
Goals
1-0 min. 52: Dusan Vlahovic. 2-0 min. 74: Weston McKennie
Referee Clément Turpin
Yellow cards
GREALISH (Min. 83), Michele Di Gregory (Min. 84), Bernardo Silva (Min. 85)
On January 22 in the Park of the Princes, the PSG, virtually eliminated with seven points, will be measured to the City in a decisive duel. In the absence of two days for the end of the league the tournament acquires dramatic dyes. In his current state of insecurity and fear, the city squad was zambulled with a crash in the swirl of emotions. Gündogan stood out several heads over the rest of the other companions. The German made a huge game in his effort to balance his team and culminate the last play. He was accompanied by the majority of his companions, generous to try to control a Juventus who was enough to wait for the inevitable accident. McKennie made the 2-0 after a counter and deepened the gloomy statistics. The City has only won one of the last ten played games.
“They have made two goals and we do not, that has been the explanation of the result,” said Guardiola, who was pessimistic about the possibility of qualifying directly among the top eight, for which he would need to win the two left games and enjoy of a few carambolas. “We have made a very good game. We have lacked the last pass in the last third. When the four central defenders and Kovacic are injured, which is the pivot, it is not easy, but the game is there. The results will come. ”
In other relevant matches of the day, the Feyenoord won the Prague 2-0 Sparta and pointed to the sixteenth with 10 points; Milan added 12 imposing himself to the Red Star 2-1 and is one step away from the eighths; and Arsenal consolidated its position among the top eight with 13 points after beating Monaco 3-0.
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