Ederson saves penalty, Man City maintains winning streak

In the notable match in Group F, Man City continued to show impressive form recently when defeating Napoli with a score of 2-1, while Feyenoord continued to receive another loss against Shakhtar Donetsk.

Man City: Sterling (8'), Jesus (13')

Napoli: Diawara (73')

At the Etihad Stadium, coach Pep Guardiola's team entered the match confidently and increased the pace of the match. In the 9th minute, winger Raheem Sterling opened the scoring for Man City with a neat close-range tap-in.

Exactly 4 minutes later, young striker Gabriel Jesus doubled the gap with a simple finish after a precise cross from the right wing by De Bruyne. Leading 2-0 early, Man City played complacently and allowed Napoli to have a chance to shorten the score when right-back Walker pulled down a Napoli player in the penalty area.

The referee immediately showed the former Tottenham player a yellow card and Napoli was awarded a penalty. Unfortunately, Driens Mertens could not beat Ederson and that was also the last notable situation of the first half.

In the second half, Man City continued to control the game and created many scoring opportunities but failed to capitalize on them. Meanwhile, Napoli continued to be "lucky" when they were awarded a second penalty in the 73rd minute, although before that, they did not create much danger towards the opponent's goal.

Ederson successfully blocked the penalty kick.

Diawara's goal was not enough to help Napoli get a point at the Etihad.

In this phase, Adam Ounas, after being put on the field, tried to break into the Man City penalty area and forced Fernandinho to commit a foul. The opportunity was given to Diawara and the Guinea international made no mistake to reduce the score to 1-2 for Napoli. That was also the final result after 90 minutes of competition between the two sides.

With the victory, Man City firmly established themselves at the top of Group F with 9 points after 3 matches, while Napoli ranked 3rd with only 3 points. In the remaining match, Feyenoord was determined to get their first point in the 2017/18 Champions League group stage when hosting Shakhtar at home. The Dutch representative even took the lead thanks to Steven Berghuis in the 8th minute.

But then, Shakhtar equalized 1-1 thanks to Bernard in the 24th minute before this player completed his double in the second half (minute 54) to help coach Paulo Fonseca's team leave with 3 full points. With this result, Shakhtar maintained the 2nd position with 6 points/3 matches while Feyenoord remained at the bottom of the table.

Line-up:

Manchester City (4-3-3):Ederson; Walker, Stones, Otamendi, Delph; Fernandinho, D Silva (Guendogan 76'); De Bruyne ; Sterling (B Silva 70'), Jesus (Danilo 87'), Sane

Napoli (4-3-3):Reina; Hysaj, (Maggio 70'), Albiol, Koulibaly, Ghoulam; Zielinski, Diawara, Hamsik (Ounas 78'); Callejon, Mertens, Insigne (Allan 57')

Specific results of the early morning matches on October 18

Table E

Spartak Moscow 5-1 Sevilla

Maribor 0-7 Liverpool

Group F

Man City 2-1 Napoli

Feyenoord 1-2 Shakhtar Donetsk

Group G

Monaco 1-2 Besiktas

RB Leipzig 3-2 Porto

Group H

APOEL 1-1 Dortmund

Real 1-1 Tottenham

Group F standings after round 3

According to Bongdaplus