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Sergio Agüero rides to Manchester |
Sergio Agüero rides to Manchester
Manchester City had to fight throughout Authentic Myles White Jersey this semi-final first leg as they will surely have to do in the return game. That is in a fortnight and for Bristol City still to have a chance of reaching Wembley shows how fine a display this was.
Sergio Agüero may have broken the visitors’ hearts with his added-time headed winner but, given the talent at Pep Guardiola’s disposal, Lee Johnson and his players can feel rightly proud at losing by only the odd goal.
Manchester City 2-1 Bristol City: Carabao Cup semi-final first leg – as it happened
Minute-by-minute report: The hosts required an injury-time winner by http://www.losangelesramshop.com/WOMENS-CORY-LITTLETON-JERSEY.html Sergio Agüero to see off brave, battling and occasionally brilliant Bristol City. Scott Murray was watching.
As Aden Flint, the Bristol City centre-back, said: “We http://www.officialusahockeysshop.com/Cheap_Olympic_Justin_Faulk_Jersey are disappointed to concede late on but we can hold our heads high. We’ve taken probably the best team in the world almost all the way.”
Guardiola selected a strong side. Agüero and Fernandinho dropped to the bench while Nicolás Otamendi and David Silva were not in the 18. Yet Kevin De Bruyne, John Stones, Ilkay Gündogan, Leroy Sané and the club’s joint-top scorer Raheem Sterling, who has 18 goals this season, were included.
Johnson made one change from Bristol City’s last league game, Frank Fielding replacing Luke Steele as goalkeeper. This was their sixth tie in the competition, against their fifth Premier League opponents, the Robins having already dispatched Watford, Stoke City, Crystal Palace and Manchester United.
There were 7,680 travelling fans – a record at the venue – and they watched the home side come at their end almost instantly from kick-off. In Agüero’s absence Guardiola asked Sterling to operate at centre-forward, The Womens T.J. McDonald Jersey 23-year-old’s pace was evident when De Bruyne turned a ball round the corner into his path from behind halfway.
The contest flowed, with the visitors growing more confident. When De Bruyne swivelled near halfway he ran straight into Joe Bryan. Suddenly the home side were back-pedalling, the left winger racing to the penalty area’s edge before drawing a save from Claudio Bravo, the keeper flinging himself to his right. discount nfl jerseys wholesale nfl jerseys cheap nfl jerseys nike discount nfl jerseys
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