Manchester City beat Brighton 3-0.
Bernardo Silva scored 3-0 for Manchester City. AOP
It certainly was Pep Guardiolan the most important locker room talk of this season.
Possibly the most significant of the entire Catalan coaching career.
Manchester City had rolled out their attacks on the Brighton goal throughout the opening season, however Riyad Mahrezin and Kevin De Bruynen despite attempts, Etihad’s scoreboard looked stubbornly a goal-free draw.
Guardiola knew he was in trouble after pulling back an opponent.
Only a home win should still benefit City.
The position of the away team was ideal. Brighton had nothing to lose. It could keep its package tight and in game discipline. Each field player stayed safely near the boundary of their own penalty area.
The same disciplined style of play had yielded victories over Tottenham and Arsenal in the previous two rounds.
Lucky opening paint
Guardiola’s teaser speech was done.
After just seven minutes of play in the second period, Brighton’s defensive got De Bruyne, who had accelerated his pace. However, the ball got bored bouncing off the players ’feet, and in the end it got hooked by Mahrez.
The Algerian happily finished the opening goal through the Lokit defense.
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Pep Guardiola felt strongly about the atmosphere of the struggle in Brighton. AOP
A quarter later Phil Foden used the same trick and secured a home win also from the opponents’ feet with a reversed shot.
Bernardo Silva fired another City in the 82nd minute.
A 3-0 home win means that the stills in the Premier League championship will remain the same. City still leads Liverpool by a point, but now it has only one obstacle to less to overcome.
Arsenal’s advantage
Wednesday’s goal-rich match was played at Stamford Bridge, with Arsenal taking the lead three times in the local game.
For the first two times, the home team Chelsea came alongside, but that wasn’t enough either Eddie Nketiah finished the Cannons at the third less than an hour.
Bukayo Saka embellished the 4-2 guest winning numbers with an overtime rank.
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The result reversed the advantage in the battle for a valuable four-place spot to Arsenal again. The team is behind Tottenham due to an even weaker goal difference, but the rest of the local rival is still burdened by a stinking trip to Anfield Road.
PSG championship
In France, the PSG already practically secured the Ligue 1 championship when it crashed Kylian Mbappén, Sergio Ramosin and Marquinhosin hit Angers 3–0. The team now has a 15-point lead over Olympique to Marseille, with both having five games left to play.
In addition, the goal difference for the Parisians is now as much as 23 units better.
This is the head coach Mauricio Pochettinon the first championship as coaches. As a player, he won the Argentine title Marcelon Bielsan piloting at Newell’s Old Boys in the summer of 1991.