City beat Brighton – Harakiri for Nottingham

Back to the wins and back to the top for the Manchester City! In an excellent match, Pep Guardiola’s team beat their opponent 2-1 AEK in the Europa League groups, Brighton.

The “Citizens” finished the match with ten after O. was sent off in the final Akanjiwith the visitors pressing suffocatingly but not finding the equalizing goal and knowing the defeat.

In pure competition, City entered the game furiously and only in the 7th minute Doku made his 1-0 Alvares. To come to the 19th century Haaland to find the back of the net for the 9th time in this year’s league and give the Manchester team a two-goal lead, with 2-0 remaining until the end of the half.

City eased up in the second half, allowing Brighton to start making strides up the pitch. One of De Gerby’s changes, o Ansu Fati he found the back of the net in the 73rd minute, seven minutes after entering the field to make it 2-1 and put the English champions on edge. The “seagulls” got even higher in the game, they were suffocatingly pressing, while Akanji was sent off with a second yellow card in the 5th minute of stoppage time. However, the few minutes that remained did not bring anything for the visitors.

THE Nottingham did… harakiri after finding himself leading 2-0, but conceded two goals in the final and “gifted” the point to Luton (2-2). Forest had Wood as the big star, who scored twice (48′, 76′) and showed to lead the hosts to a great victory. However, Ogbene in the 83rd minute reduced the score and Adebayo in the 2nd minute of stoppage time… they knew Steve Cooper’s team.

Wide victory for Newcastle, who swept Crystal Palace 4-0 and climbs up the rankings, while Wolves got a great three points at home to Bournemouth (1-2), as did Brentford over Burnley (3-0).

In detail, the program of the 9th matchday:

Saturday (21/10)

Liverpool-Everton 2-0

(75′ penalty, 90’+7′ Salah)

Manchester City-Brighton 2-1

(7′ Alvares, 19′ Haaland – 73′ Fati)

Bournemouth-Wolves 1-2

(17′ Solanke – 47′ Kunia, 88′ Kalajdzic)

Brentford-Burnley 3-0

(25′ Wisa, 62′ Ebeumo, 87′ Gondos)

Newcastle-Crystal Palace 4-0

(4′ Murphy, 44′ Gordon, 45’+2′ Longstaff, 66′ Wilson)

Nottingham Forest-Luton 2-2

(48′, 76′ Wood – 83′ Ogbene, 90’+2′ Adebayo)

Chelsea-Arsenal (19:30)

Sheffield United-Manchester United (22:00)

Sunday (22/10)

Aston Villa-West Ham (18:30)

Tottenham-Fulham (22:00)

The schedule for the next (10th) matchday:

Friday (27/10)

Crystal Palace-Tottenham (22:00)

Saturday (28/10)

Chelsea-Bradford (14:30)

Arsenal-Sheffield United (17:00)

Bournemouth-Burnley (17:00)

Wolves-Newcastle (19:30)

Sunday (29/10)

Aston Villa-Luton (16:00)

Liverpool-Nottingham Forest (16:00)

Brighton-Fulham (16:00)

Manchester United-Manchester City (17:30)