What Manchester City does is admirable. It’s football with and without the ball taken to perfection, it’s attacking and defending with possession, it’s leaving your opponent defenseless and nullifying each and every one of the weapons you have. What this team does is unique in the world, there is no one who can repeat this formula. Guardiola has turned a group of players into a group of stars. Because each player has his role, each player is the protagonist and always with the same intention. Do damage to the opponent.
Nottingham Forest left with a sack of goals from the Etihad Stadium. What was a historic match for the return of this team to the Premier League (since 1999 they had not played in the competition), became a recital on what a center forward has to do on the pitch. There is no one like Erling Braut Haaland on planet Earth. He is a player who always smells danger, who does not always appear in Manchester City’s preparation, but with three touches of the ball, he was able to score his first two goals of the game. It is no coincidence that the ball always reaches where Haaland is, his nose is elite. He only needed 37 minutes to score his second hat-trick in one of the toughest leagues in the world. There were doubts about whether his adaptation to English football was going to be complicated, but they have been more than solved.
Joao Cancelo also joined the party with a spectacular kick from the edge of the box. The Portuguese, despite not playing one of his best games, once again showed that he is a player ahead of his time. He is a mix between a winger, a midfielder and a winger. One of the most mobile players in the world. Undetectable. In the same way as the Argentine Julián Álvarez who has started his career at Manchester City in the best way. He scored a brace in his first start under Guardiola. The first taking advantage of a filtered ball from Mahrez and the second and last of the match culminating in a counter putting it out of Henderson’s reach. The City closed the party slept again as second classified in the Premier.
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