sA total surprise at Molineux. On Saturday, defending champion Manchester City suffered its first defeat this season in the English Premier League, after losing in its visit to Wolverhampton (2-1). Thus, a record is set that the citizens can break in this seventh round.
Against all expectations, and in a match that saw the return of Mateus Nunes to Moulinho, Wolves opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Pedro Neto took possession, went all the way forward and received an (unintentional) assist from Ruben Dias to nullify the tie in this match.
Despite the loss, Manchester City did its best to try to equalize in the first half. First it was Ake who missed a good chance, before England international Phil Foden’s shot was saved by Jose Sa.
The second half brought City back into the game in search of an equalizer, and a direct free kick was scored in the 58th minute. Joao Gomez committed a mistake in an area he was not supposed to commit, and Argentine Alvarez was called upon to take the free kick and hit it into the back net. A wonderful goal from the England champions striker. But the advantage will be short-lived.
In the 66th minute, Wolverhampton surprised the defending champion again. In a quick counterattack, Wolves took advantage of Citizens’ passivity and Hwang ended up scoring Wolves’ second goal of the match.
The defending champion fought until the final whistle to avoid this defeat, but was unable to stop the second defeat in a row, as the Citizens lost in the League Cup to Newcastle. The last time this happened was in January of this year.
Taking things into account, Manchester City maintains the top spot in the Premier League with 18 points, one behind second-placed Arsenal, but could lose the same lead if Liverpool beat Tottenham this afternoon. Wolverhampton rises several places and rises to 13th place with seven points.
Eleven
Wolverhampton: Jose Sa; Nelson Semedo, Dawson, Toti Gomez, Kilmane, Ait Nouri; Lemina, Joao Victor; Pedro Neto, Matthews Cunha, and Hwang.
Manchester City: Ederson. Walker, Akanji, Ruben Dias, Aki; Kovacic, Mateus Nunes, Foden; Doku, Alvarez and Haaland.
Preview
Wolverhampton and Manchester City will meet this afternoon, Saturday, in the first match in the seventh round of the English Premier League. Gary O’Neill’s team currently occupies sixteenth place in the standings with four points, while the Manchester team occupies first place with 18 points.
Head to head, there will be two teams who will certainly want to forget their League Cup disappointment in midweek. Wolves lost to Ipswich Town, while the Citizens were eliminated by Newcastle.
Wolves have been consistent at home recently, so they can provide strong competition to the defending champions. However, Wolves have gone three consecutive matches without a win in the Premier League, while Manchester City have won all six matches they have already played.
The match is scheduled to kick off at 3pm and you will be able to follow live all the events of the match between Wolverhampton and Manchester City on Sports per minute.
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