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Manchester City beat Abdukodir Khusanov’s nightmare debut to recover from his Mauling in the middle of the week in Paris and ensure a victory won with so much effort over Chelsea.
Khusanov, along with Omar Marmoush, received a first beginning by Pep Guardiola, but the early nerves resulted in an error that gave Chelsea a third -minute advantage by courtesy of Noni Madueke.
But Josko Gvardiol was leveled before the break and Erling Haaland capitalized a random goalkeeper from Robert Sánchez to Edge City in front of the second half.
Chelsea’s early adventure had vanished for a long time and Phil Foden added the third afternoon of the city.
It was an impressive response from Guardiola’s men, who must overcome the Brugge club on Wednesday night to scrape the playoffs of the Champions League after their 4-2 defeat in Paris Saint-Germain three days ago.
Early howls again boy
Khusanov’s first real participation saw him make the mistake that led to opener Chelsea.
The central half of Uzbekistan, a firm of £ 33.8 million lens this week, could not deal with a long clearance forward and, after allowing him to bounce, he could only nod with the ball to the route of Nicolas Jackson, who faced each other To Madueke to play the tap. home.
Noni Madueke pounced by Abdukodir Khusanov’s error and Chelsea takes the lead in three minutes! 🫨 pic.twitter.com/xqg0b6tea5
– Sky Sports Premier League (@skysportSpl) January 25, 2025
The 20 -year -old was all in the sea and another error, a pass under blow to Mateo Kovacic two minutes later, ended with a yellow card after he got into Cole Palmer in an attempt to recover the ball.
It seemed that the ball was following Khusanov around the Etihad field, but obtained a warm round of applause from local fans after 10 minutes with an excellent block to avoid Jackson.
City was growing slowly in the game and Foden shot at the post a minute later with Sánchez hit.
Gvardiol should have done it better shortly after unexplorously shooting the bar after having found it for the Haaland movie.
Unlike Khusanov, Marmoush looked dangerous and the Egyptian thought he had leveled issues with a debut goal after 34 minutes.
The former Eintracht striker Frankfurt reacted faster after Sánchez could only Palm Ilkay beizer the Volea de Gundagan in a dangerous area, but the off -game flag reduced the celebrations.
Guard levels
The Gvardiol races from Deep gave Chelsea a problem and the Croatian defender whipped half a wide wide before grabbing a deserved equalizer for the local side three minutes before the break.
The Condagan trimmed pass chose Matheus Nunes and, although his shot was repelled by Sánchez, Gvardiol clung to the loose ball to shoot the net.
Joško Gvardiol shoots at an empty network to make the Manchester City level! 💥 pic.twitter.com/ley5IKZCQC
– Sky Sports Premier League (@skysportSpl) January 25, 2025
Guardiola replaced Khusanov nine minutes in the second period with John Stones.
However, Marmoush stayed and remained a threat to the Chelsea background. And he approached a debut goal again after 67 minutes, shooting centimeters after linked very well with Haaland.
Its end lacked precision, something that can rarely join Haaland and the great Norwegian showed him how a minute should be done later.
Haaland capitalizes the poor positioning of Sánchez
After he clung ederson forward, Haaland held Trevoh Chabah, turned to his left foot and raised a lovely shot over the unfortunately placed Sánchez and on the back of the network.
Erling Haaland catches Robert Sánchez from his line and shoots it! 🎯 pic.twitter.com/ikucihpvmd
– Sky Sports Premier League (@skysportSpl) January 25, 2025
Kevin de Bruyne replaced the impressive Marmoush with 16 minutes to the end and played a role in the third goal of the city, nodding for Haaland and took him to Foden to be located at home.
