Results of Man City vs Nottingham – Pep Guardiola’s army attacked many but was not effective and then suffered from the harsh rules of football.
Entering the trip to the field of the opponent group under Nottingham Forest, as usual, Man City was still the team in absolute control in the first half.
On the contrary, the students of coach Steve Cooper played very defensively to neutralize the braking phase of Haaland and his teammates. During the first half hour of the match, Man City held the ball to nearly 90%, shot up to 8 shots but not once on target.
In the 33rd minute, the away team had a rhythmic arrangement to attack the middle. Still from Kevin De Bruyne’s feet, the ball was poured into the penalty area to Rodri’s position, who was running up to the 5m50 round, but unfortunately his header went wide of the post.
But whatever happened has happened. In the 41st minute, from a corner of Man City, the ball reached Grealish’s foot on the right of the penalty area. No. 10 then returned to the second line for Bernardo Silva to hit the left and knock Keylor Navas down. This is The Citizens’ first shot on target.
In the second half, Man City continued to press thoroughly to find more goals. Despite creating dozens of opportunities, they could not take advantage of them.
Partly due to the excellence of Keylor Navas, who had mastered his own penalty area well, including a save right on the line from Laporte’s close-range header in the 52nd minute.
Meanwhile, super striker Erling Haaland proved quite ungrateful in this match. In the 67th minute, Foden fired a shot from outside the penalty area, making Navas unable to catch it. The ball bounced to foot 9 in the 5m50 area, but he kicked straight into the stands.
The turning point came at the last minute. In an effort to bombard the Navas goal, Man City suddenly received Nottingham’s injury recovery. From Bernardo Silva’s loss of the ball, the home team counter-attacked quickly.
Brennan Johnson teamed up with Morgan Gibbs-White before sending the ball to Chris Wood’s feet on the second post for him to cushion the goal from a distance of 1m. VAR then stepped in but could not save Man City from losing points.
The disastrous draw against Nottingham made Pep and his students lose the first place to Arsenal with 2 points less than the opponent but kicked more than one match.
