Despite the fact that it was difficult for him to open the scoring, Manchester City ended up defeating Brighton (10th) this Wednesday in a postponed match, with which he adds a victory that allows him to recover the leadership of the Premier League.
Source: AFP
Pep Guardiola’s team was not able to move the scoreboard until the second half, although they ended up clearly prevailing with goals from Algerian Riyad Mahrez, Phil Foden and Portuguese Bernardo Silva.
“Today we came out on top against a rival who won at Tottenham and Arsenal,” the Spanish coach said after the game.
With this result, City is once again the leader with 77 points, compared to 76 for Liverpool. with six days to go in the English championship.
City had all the pressure after Liverpool snatched the lead on Tuesday after beating Manchester United (4-0), and Pep Guardiola’s team seemed to suffer from nerves in a first half in which they offered a very different image to the usual, with few combinations and few movements of their players, which translated into little danger against the rival goal.
– Mahrez opens the scoring –
City didn’t begin to breathe easy until the second half, when Mahrez took a ball with some luck and beat Sánchez one-on-one to open the scoring (53′).
The Algerian winger, the best ‘citizen’ player this season, was also at the origin of the second goal, taking a corner kick to the edge of the area, where Phil Foden was, who shot from 25 meters and the ball, after touching in a defense, he entered the Brighton goal (65′).
And Bernardo Silva sentenced with a shot close to the post from the edge of the box in another move that was born from a stolen ball in Brighton’s creation zone (82′).
In another of the postponed matches played this Wednesday, Arsenal (5th) won 4-2 in one of the London classics over Chelsea (3rd), a result that revives the team coached by Mikel Arteta in the fight for qualifying for the next Champions League.
