Norwich City 3 - 2 Manchester City: 'Earthquake' at Carrow Road
(Baonghean.vn) - Defending champions Man City traveled to Carrow Road to face newly promoted Norwich in the late match of round 5. The pressure to win made coach Pep Guardiola's players play somewhat unconfidently.
Before that, Liverpool had a fairly easy 3-1 win against Newcastle and increased the gap with ManCity to 5 points on the rankings. If they lose in this match, Man City will have difficulty catching up with the destructive machine Liverpool on the rankings.
In the first half, Man City still controlled the game better thanks to their quality players, but could not penetrate the solid defense of Norwich players. On the contrary, coach Daniel Farke's students were the ones to open the score first.
In the 18th minute of the match, right from the first corner kick after an attack, Norwich scored when midfielder McLean jumped high and performed a technical header, defeating goalkeeper Ederson, opening the score for Norwich.
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| Norwich players had a good and brave match against defending champions Man City. Photo: Getty |
In the 28th minute of the match, the home team organized a very quick counter-attack. Kyle Walker made a positioning error, causing Man City's offside trap to collapse and Pukki sprinted down to dribble the ball and calmly crossed for Cantwell to easily tap the ball into the net of goalkeeper Ederson, raising the score to 2 - 0.
Quickly trailing by 2 goals, Man City players focused all their efforts on attacking and forcing the home team at Carrow Road into a difficult defense position. The goal to shorten the gap finally came to Man City in the final minutes of the first half.
In the 44th minute of the match, from the left wing, Bernando Silva crossed the ball for Aguero to head accurately, reducing the gap to 2-1 for Man City. This was the 7th goal of the season for the Argentine player for Man City.
Entering the second half, Norwich players once again made Carrow Road explode, when they increased the gap to 3-1 after 5 minutes of the second half.
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Coach Pep Guardiola helplessly watched his players fail in the match against Norwich. Photo: EPA |
In order to increase the attacking front, coach Pep Guardiola immediately sent conductor Kevin De Bruyne and striker Gabriel Jesus onto the field to make a difference. Gundogan and David Silva were the two players who had to leave the field when the defending champion was leading 3-1.
The presence of Belgian star Kevin De Bruyne on the field made Man City play more freely and create more opportunities. The reigning English champions scored again at the end of the second half. In the 88th minute of the match, receiving the ball from Gabriel Jesus at a distance of more than 20m, midfielder Rodri, after a few technical moves, launched an extremely dangerous low shot, defeating Tim Krul, shortening the score to 3 - 2.
In the following minutes, Man City was still the team that dominated the game, but Sterling, Auguero, and Jesus were all unable to take advantage of scoring opportunities for Man City, because the defense of the rookie Norwich played extremely hard and focused.
4 more minutes of injury time for all of Man City's efforts but all failed, ending the match at Norwich's Carrow Road, Man City had to accept defeat with a score of 3 - 2.
Losing to newcomer Norwich, defending champion Man City is still temporarily ranked 2nd on the rankings, but is making it difficult for itself in the race with rival Liverpool when it is 5 points ahead on the rankings.
For the home team Norwich, the victory over Man City helped them gain 6 points and climb to 12th place on the rankings, a brave victory for the rookie team of the Premier League 2019 - 2020.
Goal scorer:
Norwich City:McLean (18') Cantwel (28) Pukki (50')
Man City:Aguero (44'), Rodri (88')
LINEUP
NORWICH CITY (4-2-3-1):Tim Krul; Sam Byram, Ibrahim Amadou, Ben Godfrey, Jamal Lewis, Kenny McLean, Alexander Tettey, Emiliano Buendia, Marco Stiepermann, Todd Cantwell; Teemu Pukki.
MANCHESTER CITY (4-3-3):Ederson, Kyle Walker, John Stones, Nicolas Otamendi, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Ilkay Gundogan, Rodri, David Silva, Bernardo Silva, Sergio Aguero, Raheem Sterling.
Results of some other matches:
Liverpool 3-1 Newcastle
MU 1 - 0 Leicester
Sheffield United 0 - 1 Southampton
Brighton 1 - 1 Burnley
Wolves 2 - 5 Chelsea
Tottenham 4 - 0 Crystal Palace
