Jean Canesse, Media365, published on Sunday January 19, 2025 at 7:23 p.m.
Easy winner of Ipswich on Sunday (0-6), Manchester City confirmed its current good health in the Premier League. A good omen before the trip to Paris on Wednesday.
A return to form at the best of times. While Manchester City, like Paris, will play a good part of the season on Wednesday evening in a European shock at the Parc des Princes, the four-time reigning English champion displayed a rather bright face on Sunday evening on the pitch of promoted Ipswich. Even if everything has not been perfect, far from it, even if Pep Guardiola's players have not regained their full capabilities, particularly physically, this 6-0 Sunday success should reassure them for the rest of the season. events.
Without Bernardo or Savinho (left on the bench the entire match), but with the return of Dias, absent for six matches, the Skyblues were mainly able to count on the awakening of Foden in the first period. The English striker, so busy during the first part of the season, scored a double in the area (0-1, 27th; 0-3, 42nd), also shifting Kovacic for the Croatian's nice dry strike (0- 2, 30th).
-Haaland, one goal behind Salah
The other good news for Guardiola is the successful performance of Doku on his left side. Regularly replacing in recent weeks, and not necessarily ready to start against PSG, the former Rennais proved untenable and scored the fourth goal after a spectacular rush (0-4, 49th). The Belgian winger also offered a real gift to Haaland (0-5, 57th), for the Norwegian giant's 17th Premier League goal (Salah has 18). City concluded their walk in the park with an achievement from the prodigy McAtee, who came on at the hour mark (63rd) and scored six minutes later, with a nice lofted header (0-6).
In the standings, this card is not anecdotal since it is on goal difference that the Mancunians, currently fourth, are ahead of Newcastle (+15 against +12). The Magpies, sharply beaten by Bournemouth on Saturday (1-4) and now fifth, have the very poor operation of the day while Chelsea will only need a draw, Monday evening against Wolverhampton, to regain fourth place from the Citizens . But the main thing is elsewhere, for De Bruyne and others, just a stone's throw from a match which could change the face of their season.
