A Brentford player celebrates his goal against Manchester City, January 14, 2025 (Clive Rose/Getty)
Manchester City failed to achieve a victory that was within its reach, and return with three points from its host stadium, Brentford, after the Spanish coach, Pep Guardiola’s squad, failed to maintain a two-goal lead without a response, drawing in the last moments with a score of two goals each, in the match that brought the two teams together. On Tuesday evening, as part of the 21st week of the English Premier League football tournament.
After the Sky Club regained its balance in the last matches, and emerged from the crisis of negative results, by achieving three victories in a row (two matches in the Premier League and a match in the FA Cup), City succeeded in advancing over Brentford in the second half, thanks to the English star, Phil Foden. , who opened the scoring in the 67th minute, benefiting from a wonderful pass from his Belgian teammate, Kevin De Bruyne, before the same player returned to add the second goal in the minute. The 78th, and this time took advantage of a rebound from the hosts’ goalkeeper, but the visitors did not succeed in maintaining this lead, after Yoan Wesa reduced the difference in the 82nd minute, while Christian Norgaard equalized the score for Brentford in stoppage time, handing City the three points, and moving up. To fourth place temporarily, knowing that Guardiola’s squad currently occupies sixth place with 35 points.
For its part, Chelsea failed to get out of the spiral of negative results, after the Italian coach Enzo Maresca’s squad was unable to win the fifth consecutive match in the English Premier League, and this time after tying with Bournemouth with a score of two goals each, in the confrontation that… It was held at Stamford Bridge Stadium, as part of the same round’s competitions, as the London club continued its decline in the Premier League table, and became threatened with losing fourth place to the club. Newcastle United, if the latter wins against Wolverhampton, on Wednesday evening.
Chelsea has 36 points, and is ten points behind leaders Liverpool, noting that the “Blues” squad started the current football season strongly and achieved positive results, before entering a spiral of negative results, starting with a negative draw with Everton in the round. 17, then suffered losses to Fulham and Ipswich Town, respectively, in the 18th and 19th weeks, then tied again with Crystal Palace. In the 20th round.
In a third match, the leading Liverpool club tied for the second time in a row in the Premier League (after tying against Manchester United in the previous round), against its host Nottingham Forest, which ranks second equally with Arsenal, with a score of one to the same, in a match that witnessed the brilliance of the New Zealand international striker, Chris Wood (32 years old) again, after scoring the first goal for his team in the first half, before the “Reds” were able to adjust the score, through Portuguese Diogo Jota, to preserve Thus, the squad of the Dutch coach, Arne Sloat, is six points behind Nottingham Forest, but Arsenal may be the biggest beneficiary of the results of this round, if it succeeds in reducing the difference to four points, if it overcomes Tottenham Hotspurs, in the derby match, which It will be held on Wednesday evening at the Emirates Stadium.
