Great football evening in a Barbera sold out. To the men of Pep goes the Anglo Palermo Trophy: Haaland opens, then the Dutch closes the match. But the rosanero of Inzaghi come out among the applause

Fabrizio Vitale

August 9, 2025 (Edit on August 10, 2025 | 00:01) – Palermo

It was a big party, in the stands and on the pitch. The Manchester City makes the technical overwhelmingness beat Palermo 3-0 and wins the Anglo-Palermo Trophy. Beyond the evident gap, the rosanero have disengaged well especially in the first half. The Barbera, overflowing in every order of place, lived an evening of great football with two teams certainly away on a qualitative level, but united by an ambitious property. Palermo that aspires to Serie A and the Manchester City who wants to return to excel in the Premier League and in Europe they faced each other openly. Inzaghi and Guardiola have launched formations almost in type set -up, also by virtue of a running -in in view of the first official commitments, the rosanero in the Italian Cup, the City in the championship.

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Superpippo Cala three of the four axes of the market with Bani, Augello and Gyasi from the beginning with a 3-5-2 in which Brunori and Pohjanpalo have the task of sting. Guardiola launches a 4-2-3-1 in which Cherki, Marmush and Bobb act behind Haaland. At the start is immediately a real race with Palermo trying to surprise the Citiznes with immediate aggression and restarts. Already at 3 ‘Ceccaroni touches the advantage by sending head to the pole. The first 20 minutes parade on a substantial balance, then broken at the 25th minute by Haaland, good at putting on the second post with a surgical precision. They pass 2 ‘and Pohjanpalo tries to detonate the Barbera, but his header is not surprising trafficking. The City grows in closing goes close to doubling with Cherki who finds Diakité ready for the detour.

In the second half the first changes of Guardiola do not distort the effective at all, at 14 ‘Reijders manages the Savinho service well and easily puts behind Gomis. The rosanero, however, do not break down and try to reopen the games a few minutes later with Segre who shoots high in front of the door. Inzaghi gives a bottom to the bench with a robust revisitation of the eleven and also Palumbo tries the personal glory with a shot that goes out. Even the Douaron tries by emerging from behind without precision. The City, however, decides to spread, Bernardo Silva wastes the Tris, which does not make Reijnders still on the assist of Savinho. The former Milan bucks centrally and signs the personal brace that is worth 3-0.



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