A CLASS ACT. City veterans David Silva and Sergio Agüero spearheaded a rampant Manchester City performance at The Etihad leaving David Wagner’s erstwhile successful stifling tactics in tatters. The Terriers, whose defence was constantly reduced to paper kites in a wind tunnel were relentlessly ripped apart with consummate ease.
“Spanish Dave” making his 250th Premier League appearance was the architect of a sizzling display by Pep Guardiola’s Centurions who have already registered 10 goals in the season’s first three competitive fixtures and to a man are going after the ball as if their lives depend upon it. Up top, the brilliant Kun Agüero recorded a 9th Premier League hat-trick drawing level in the record books with Robbie Fowler. He is now closing in on another record. Only the BBC’s shrewd pundit Alan Shearer with 11 trebles lies ahead of the legendary Argentine.
Johnny’s Man of the Match: Benjamin Mendy. The powerful Frenchman scared Huddersfield to death with his pace, his barrelling runs creating havoc. Whilst deploying his trickier players to work in and around a parked bus and benching most of his sprinters, Pep clearly earmarked a weakness on the hapless visitors right side with his team selection and Blue Mendy bought right into the game plan with aplomb. A fit and firing Walker-Mendy overlapping axis is going to be a fearsome choice of weapon.
The Etihad Stadium
FA Premier League
19/08/2018
Attendance: 54,021
Referee: Andre Marriner of The West Midlands
| Manchester City | Huddersfield Town | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sergio Agüero (25', 35',75'), Gabriel Jesus (31'), David Silva (48') Terence Kongolo (84' og) | Jon Gorenc-Stankovic (43') | ||||||
| 31 Ederson | 12 Ben Hamer | ||||||
| 5 John Stones | 2 Tom Smith | ||||||
| 4 Vincent Kompany | 26 Christopher Schindler | ||||||
| 14 Aymeric Laporte | 5 Terence Kongolo | ||||||
| 25 Fernandinho | 15 Chris Löwe | ||||||
| 20 Bernardo Silva | 21 Alex Pritchard | Diakhaby 61' | |||||
| 8 Ilkay Gündogan | Foden 82' | 27 Jon Gorenc-Stankovic | |||||
| 22 Benjamin Mendy | 8 Philip Billing | ||||||
| 10 Sergio Agüero | Sané 76' | 33 Florent Hadergjonaj | |||||
| 33 Gabriel Jesus | 29 Abdelhamid Sabiri | Depoitre 45' | |||||
| 21 David Silva | Mahrez 64' | 24 Steve Mounie | Sobhi 84' | ||||
Substitutes |
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| 1 Claudio Bravo | 1 Jonas Lössl | ||||||
| 2 Kyle Walker | 11 Adama Diakhaby | ||||||
| 7 Raheem Sterling | 14 Ramadan Sobhi | ||||||
| 19 Leroy Sané | 17 Rajiv van La Parra | ||||||
| 26 Riyad Mahrez | 18 Isaac Mbenza | ||||||
| 30 Nicolas Otamendi | 19 Daniel Williams | ||||||
| 47 Phil Foden | 20 Laurent Depoitre | ||||||
Game Statistics |
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| 32 | Goal attempts | 5 |
| 14 | On Target | 1 |
| 10 | Corners | 3 |
| 9 | Fouls | 4 |
| 0 | Yellow Cards | 2 |
| 0 | Red Cards | 0 |
| 77 | % | 23 |