Manchester City couldn’t beat Everton at home.
Erling Haaland didn’t want to believe that City’s year ended with a point loss. PDO
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola would say angrily after Saturday’s league match.
The Catalan was disappointed with his side’s performance as they dropped two valuable league points by squandering a lead against relegation-chasing Everton.
Even after the opening episode, everything looked good. Norwegian star Erling Haaland right from the beginning of the match spoke of will to fight. The Vikings striker got upset because of Everton Ben Godfrey annoyingly stepped on his achilles tendon just seconds into the game.
However, Haaland was able to continue the match and he got his revenge midway through the opening period when Riyad Mahrez passed to the attacker Vitos on the line. Haaland completed the opening goal with the help of the Everton defense because the goalkeeper Jordan Pickford steered the ball beyond the reach of Godfrey, who was on duty at the goal line, with his save attempt.
Gray’s dream goal
In the second period, City should have secured a home win, but instead Demarai Gray a perfect upper corner drive brought the Blues level.
The dream goal that came at the hour mark especially digs into Guardiola’s mind, because before that Rodri lost the ball for free and no Manuel Akanjikan defense work successful.
The match was played in quite a tense atmosphere, and Haaland, for example, can consider himself lucky to have been spared from the timeout.
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In the end, Guardiola sought victory by sending the new world champion by Julián Álvarez to the field. Argentina’s World Cup heroes are under a special curse as none of them have yet managed to win a game since the World Cup final.
On Friday Nicolás Otamendi and Enzo Fernandez experienced a dull 0–3 defeat in Benfica’s shirt. At the same time Marcos Acuña Sevilla could only draw.
On Saturday by Lisandro Martínez Manchester United won their own match after all, but the Argentinian pair was not part of the team’s strength.
Álvarez continued this extraordinary statistical streak as his City eventually had to settle for a 1-1 draw. The loss of points gives Arsenal the keys to increase their points lead to seven already.