City “broke out” in Slovakia and made a save in this year’s Champions League!

Her first win in the League Phase Champions League celebrated on Tuesday night (01/10) h Manchester Citywhich swept through Slovakia and the “Tehelne pole”, winning with the impressive Slovan Bratislava 4-0.

After a string of negative results in the last two weeks – one defeat and three draws in the last four matches – Pep Guardiola’s side took the opportunity to break out, putting in a very good and dominant performance, thereby building their psychology ahead of the rest.

In fact, after today’s result, City reached the 25 games in the top club competition without defeat (17 wins, 8 draws), with the last loss being on May 5, 2022, in the semi-final against Real Madrid (3-1 par.)!

With this victory, the “citizens” reached their goal 4 points (the “white” draw with Inter was preceded), temporarily rising to 5th place in the standings, at the same time as Slovan, for which the main players fought Vladimir Weiss and the Greek midfielder, Kyriakos Savvidis, remained low without a point (they had been beaten 5-1 in the premier league by Celtic).

With a mix of starters and substitutes, the English club had absolutely no problem completely imposing themselves on their opposition from the very first minute. It is indicative that the possession of the ball in the first 45 minutes… stopped at 77% for the “citizens”, who had 14 final attempts. Just in the 8th minute, the English champions opened the scoring with a powerful volley from him Gintogan from the height of the large area, with the ball going against a defender and ending up in the net.

Seven minutes later, again from the right side where Doku was fighting, City doubled their goals with his wonderful dribble shot Foden in the lower right corner of Takacs, effectively “locking” the three point from the very first quarter of the match. In the 17th minute, the home keeper impressively stopped Haaland’s shot, while in the 24th minute, Doku’s terrific shot was stopped at the junction of the posts. Gintogan’s shot in the 39th minute had the same fate, with the German making a fine save and then seeing his effort hit the post.

The scene was similar in the second half as well, with Manchester City not throwing “turns” and reaching even more goals. start was made in the 53rd minute when Luiz produced a stunning vertical pass to Haalandwho after first “emptying” Takacs, scored his eleventh goal of the year in all competitions, raising his score to 0-3! Shortly afterwards, the Norwegian gave way to McAteewho was about to make it 4-0 in the 74th minute with a powerful shot from the wide area, after Foden’s beautiful assist.

In the remaining time, Manchester City looked for another goal, both with Stones in 83′ and 89′, as well as with Gintogan in 87′ and McAtee in 90+1′, without the fifth goal ever coming.

The match lineups in detail:



Slovan Bratislava (Vice): Takacs, Blackman, Kasia, Bayric, Wimmer, Savvidis, Ignatenko (63′ Szoke), Tolic (78′ Paucek), Weiss (63′ Zumberou), Barseghian, Strelets (78′ Marcelli).

Manchester City (Guardiola): Ortega, Luis, Akanji (60′ Diaz), Stones, Guardiol (78′ Walker), Nunes, Guidogan, Savinho, Foden (78′ Grillis), Doku, Haaland (60′ McAtee).