Abdukodir Khusanov endured a Barclays debut that will live long in infamy, but it all turned out right in the end for Man City. Chelsea were poor.
Manchester City saw off Chelsea 3-1 to leapfrog their opponents and climb back into the top four, but only after a Premier League debut that will live long in Barclays infamy. Poor Abdukodir Khusanov.1. Manchester City 3-1 Chelsea : Or How Pep Guardiola Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Long-ball Football.
Confidence is a curious beast, but Foden now appears to have relocated it. His goal was merely the final highlight of a fine performance for a player who’s got his groove back and had thundered an early 20-yard shot into the post with Sanchez beaten. That is no longer the case even on days like this where it all turns out fine in the end. There was a palpable nervousness at 2-1 among the players and fans. We’re not even sure exactly who was transferring that tension to the other. But it was absolutely there.6. And that will be a source of huge frustration to Chelsea on a very frustrating evening that started brilliantly, carried on pretty much fine for a little while and then withered and shrivelled away to nothingness.
At that stage it seemed entirely feasible that Guardiola might have to make one of the earliest tactical substitutions on record. The poor bastard looked like he’d rather be literally anywhere else than on the right side of Manuel Akanji. There is a point here about how little protection and help his new team-mates gave him on what was always likely to be a tough experience, but really a £33m footballer has to be expected to cope better than this.9.
How many times has a defender scored a goal from open play and you find yourself thinking ‘Yep, that had been coming’ do you reckon? It doesn’t feel like something that happens often, but it was absolutely the case here, with Gvardiol a rampaging menace down the City left where Reece James had a deeply uncomfortable time on the Chelsea right.11. The two sides’ attacking players on that flank also played their part.
He will have to work on the timing of his runs, because he was unnecessarily offside an awful lot – on one occasion costing City an equaliser by turning home a rebound from one such offside position where had he just not got involved the very onside Bernardo Silva would surely have scored instead.
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