Johnny On The Spot: #AND BREATHE. A pivotal week in Manchester City’s season has begun with a crucial narrow away win out of another frustrating night in the Champions League as the Blues once again failed to put away the opposition comprehensively in a game they dominated. Imperious in England and Wales, City’s form in Europe is an utter mystery, 17 games without a clean sheet on the road in this competition telling it’s own story. Admittedly, our cause was not helped by a classic “homer” of a referee, but we cannot afford the type of defensive lapses and profligacy that pegged back tonight’s performance. Make no mistake either regarding Hoffenheim who absolutely went after City, no doubt inspired by Lyon’s victory over the English champions. All that said, this is an ideal pressure relieving result and now the centurions have an extra 24 hours more than the hack and pundit’s champions elect Liverpool to prepare for the biggest game of the season to date on Sunday. Liverpool must contend with the Napoli cauldron beforehand. My Man of The Match was none other than match winner Spanish Dave. A special word for Riyad Mahrez who is worth a start on Merseyside.
WIRSOL Rhein-Neckar-Arena
Champions League - Group F
Referee: Damir Skomina of Slovenia
| TSG 1899 Hoffenheim | Manchester City | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ishak Belfodil (1') | Sergio Agüero (7'), Silva (87') | ||||||
| 1 Oliver Baumann | 31 Ederson | ||||||
| 2 Joshua Brenet | 2 Kyle Walker | ||||||
| 25 Kevin Akpoguma | 4 Vincent Kompany | ||||||
| 38 Stefan Posch | 30 Nicolas Otamendi | Stones 64' | |||||
| 3 Pavel Kaderábek | 14 Aymeric Laporte | ||||||
| 10 Kerem Demirbay | Hack 89' | 21 David Silva | |||||
| 24 Justin Hoogma | 25 Fernandinho | ||||||
| 11 Florian Grillitsch | Bittencourt 82' | 8 Ilkay Gündogan | Bernardo Silva 68' | ||||
| 34 Apolinário de Lira | 7 Raheem Sterling | Mahrez 75' | |||||
| 28 Adam Szalai | Kramaric 54' | 10 Sergio Agüero | |||||
| 19 Ishak Belfodil | 19 Leroy Sané | ||||||
Substitutes |
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| 9 Reiss Nelson | 3 Danilo | ||||||
| 13 Leonardo Bittencourt | 5 John Stones | ||||||
| 27 Andrej Kramaric | 20 Bernardo Silva | ||||||
| 32 Vicenzo Grifo | 26 Riyad Mahrez | ||||||
| 36 Gregor Kobel | 33 Gabriel Jesus | ||||||
| 37 Robin Hack | 35 Aleks Zinchenko | ||||||
| 41 Alfons Amade | 49 Aro Muric | ||||||
Game Statistics |
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| 5 | Goal attempts | 15 |
| 2 | On Target | 6 |
| 1 | Corners | 8 |
| 12 | Fouls | 16 |
| 1 | Yellow Cards | 4 |
| 0 | Red Cards | 0 |
| 34 | % | 66 |