Manchester City have scored a minimum of 4 goals in each of their last 4 Premier League matches at home against Newcastle United. City could have scored more goals.
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Despite the doubts about the touch, Kevin De Bruyne was accredited with an assist for Sergio Aguero’s opening goal, meaning the Belgian became the first player to reach 10 Premier League assists this season. With City’s attacking talents they don’t need to go so high up the pitch, and their over-eagerness and defensive issues will be exposed against the best sides in Europe.
There was a minute’s applause at all the games, and players wore black armbands, as the Premier League paid tribute to former England striker Cyrille Regis, who died last Sunday at the age of 59.
“I expect soon or never”, he said. Sometimes the worse thing is when people say from one month ago that it is over.
“They are a very good team, our reaction was quite good”.
Slimani, Leicester’s record signing, has only started one league game since September. Manchester United must learn from this win, and use this as ammunition to defeat our cross-city rivals.
“Every match is different, but the way they lost the last game, and they nearly tied against us at St James’s Park, makes us believe a little bit more about the possibilities”, said Merino.
“We were able to make a good combination in attack”.
Manchester United, on the other hand, had a strong first half to the Premier League season, though their efforts still see them trailing Manchester City by 12 points at the top of the table.
City are now on 65 points from 24 games with 14 games left to play. “We’re going to try to win all three points, and we have the clues of how to do it”.
“I’ve won a lot of titles and always I’ve dropped points on the way”.
Manchester City have lost just once in 22 meetings, with that defeat coming at home in the League Cup in October 2014.
“It’s such a big game against such a big club and such a big team”.
“It’s not like we held a meeting and said ‘guys can you win today because then no-one will talk about Phil'”.
If Malcolm is that great then PSG would sign him, but Arsene Wenger is sorted because he doesn’t have to sign a player to hit the ground running because he decides how long his contract is. However, the Reds did what no team has done so far this season and handed City a defeat in the Premier League.
In the few weeks since, Crystal Palace, Bristol City and of course Liverpool have shown that a sense of adventure may be the best way to upset City.
Arsenal remain outside the top four but heartened manager Wenger said: “We played our real game in the first half, real pace and real combination”. You need to be courageous, you need to play football.
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On that occasion Burnley managed just three shots on target the whole game but two of them found the net and it required a fightback from United to come away with a 2-2 draw.
