City took the obligation and left for the quarterfinals

Everyone knew that the qualification had been judged from the first match between Manchester City and Lisbon Sportingin “Jose Alvalade”, when the “citizens” had prevailed with the emphatic 5-0.

Tonight’s match with the City to line up with several changes and not to “burden”, but to be again superior to the Portuguese for most of the match. The final 0-0 sent the English champions without stress to Champions League quarterfinals.

The match:



Dominant from the first minutes of the match h Manchester Citywith its players constantly in possession of the ball and looking for a way to “unlock” its multi-faceted defense Sporting.

In the 7th minute, Neto was pressed by Fontaine and made the mistake, losing the ball just outside the large area of ​​his team, but City midfielder failed to find Jesούςs, who was in a “shooting position”.

The hosts were constantly circulating the ball in the half of Sporting, but without creating opportunities for goals. In the 23rd minute, Fernandinho found Bernardo Silva with a great forty ball, but Sporting’s defense removed the danger again. In the 38 ‘ came the best opportunity of the first half for City, with Sterling to go out four-on-four with him Antan and the Portuguese goalkeeper to repel.

The same picture of the game at the beginning of the second half, with City even opening the score at 47 ‘When the Mahrez made a nice individual effort and passed to Ζεσούς, with the Brazilian sending the ball into the net. However, The goal was disallowed as offside at the suggestion of the VAR.

In the 57th, the Portuguese made their first final in the match, with Anderson easily blocking his long shot Pauliniowhile three minutes later the same player re-entered the home area with claims, but placed weakly on the Brazilian goalkeeper.

Then the Sporting took action on the Etihad Stadium and hit more often in the City area, while Guardiola changes goalkeeper in 73 ‘, putting 36-year-old Carson in place of Anderson. In fact, three minutes later, Carson performed a life-saving operationwhen a winner came out in a four-on-four with him Paulinio. Despite the good pace that existed in the last minutes, no team managed to find the way to the nets, with the 0-0 to stay until the referee’s last whistle.

The live of the match.

The compositions of the groups:



Manchester City (Pep Guardiola): Anderson (73 ‘Carson) – Riley, Stones, Laport (84’ Embete), Zinchenko – Gidogan, Fernandinho, Bernardo Silva (46 ‘Mahrez) – Fontaine (46’ Makati), Jesούςs, Sterling

Sporting Lisbon (Ruben Amorim): Adan – Inacio, Coates, Neto (89 ‘Fedal) – Poro (78’ Esgaio), Ugarte, Tabata, Reyes – Sarabia (58 ‘Edwards), Slimani (89’ Ribeiro), Paulinho (78 ‘Nuno Santos)

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