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Game #5580

Aston Villa

Wednesday, 21 April 2021

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Lost

11th (-)

Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥

Premier League

Manchester City

Villa Park

Attendance: Behind closed doors
(COVID-19)

🟥 21 April 2021, Villa 1-2 Abu Dhabi, Villa Park.

Aston Villa

1-2

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State of Abu Dhabi

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Assist(s) | Ollie Watkins | 1' |

🟥 21 April 2021, Villa 1-2 Abu Dhabi, Villa Park.

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MATCH TIMELINE

Wednesday, 21 April 2021

⚽ | 1’ Goal, 1-0, John McGinn (20s), Assist by Ollie Watkins
🥅 | 22’ Goal, 1-1, (Manchester City), Phil Foden
🥅 | 40’ Goal, 1-2, (Manchester City), Rodri
🟥 | 44’ Sending off, (Manchester City), John Stones
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-2 Manchester City
🔁 | 46’ Sub off, Jacob Ramsey, Sub on, Keinan Davis
🔁 | 63’ Sub off, Marvelous Nakamba, Sub on, Ross Barkley
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Bertrand Traoré, Sub on, Anwar El Ghazi
🟨 | 54’ Booking, Matty Cash
🟨 | 57’ Booking, Matty Cash
🟥 | 57’ Sending off, Matty Cash, Two Bookings
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-2 Manchester City

Match Statistics

Possession F | 28%
Possession A | 72%
Shots F | 8
Shots A | 13
Shots on Target F | 3
Shots on Target A | 3
Corners F | 1
Corners A | 11
Fouls F | 12
Fouls A | 7

🟥 21 April 2021, Villa 1-2 Abu Dhabi, Villa Park.

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ON THIS DAY

Wednesday, 21 April 2021

  • Villa score after 20 seconds but are beaten.

  • John McGinn scores Villa's second fastest Premier League goal after Dwight Yorke's 12 second strike at Coventry City on Saturday, 30 September 1995.

  • Anwar El Ghazi makes his 100th appearance for the club (75 Starts) to make it W35 D23 L42, 19 Goals, 13 Assists, 10 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

  • Matty Cash is sent off on his 25th appearance in a Villa shirt to make it W12 D2 L11, 2 Assists, 8 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

🟥 21 April 2021, Villa 1-2 Abu Dhabi, Villa Park.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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Aston Villa

European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1995-96

Manchester City

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As Manchester City:

European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1975-76

As Abu Dhabi:

European Cup / Champions League: ❌
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: ❌
League Champions: 🏆*🏆*🏆*🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆*🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆*🏆*🏆*🏆🏆 🏆
Last Trophy: 2020-21

* Under Investigation

Aston Villa

Manchester City

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Manchester City

Previous 5 vs. Abu Dhabi: 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥

🟥 21 April 2021, Villa 1-2 Abu Dhabi, Villa Park.

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2020-21 |
Matchday | #35 |
League Match | #31 |
Manager Game | #118 |
Wednesday, 21 April 2021

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🟥 21 April 2021, Villa 1-2 Abu Dhabi, Villa Park.

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Dean Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | West Bromwich, 2018-2021
Referee: Peter Bankes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Liverpool, 2014-
Kick off: 8.15pm
HT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-2
Last 5: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Dean Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2018-2021

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 118 | 🟩 | 48 🟨 | 24 🟥 46 | 1.42

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Dean Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2018-2021

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MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Peter Bankes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Liverpool, 2014-
Matches Officiated: 15
🟩 : 4
🟨 : 3
🟥 : 8
🆘 : 0
Previous 5: 🟨 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 27 Feb 21, Villa 1-0 Leeds (a)
Incidents: 🟥 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟥
Assistants: Stuart Burt, Neil Davies

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟥 Matty Cash, Two Bookings
🟨 Matty Cash
🟨 Matty Cash

🟥 John Stones
🟨 İlkay Gündoğan

🟥 21 April 2021, Villa 1-2 Abu Dhabi, Villa Park.

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Captain Jack Grealish is once again ruled out through injury - his 9th consecutive absence and longest run out of the side since February 2019 (14 games). Grealish is joined by new casualty Trézéguet following surgery on a ligament injury that will keep him out of contention until the 2021-22 season. Morgan Sanson misses out once again (knee) as does long term absentee Wesley.

​Marvelous Nakamba starts consecutive league games whilst Jacob Ramsey comes in for Trézéguet, Carney Chukwuemeka makes a return to the bench - the 17 year-old's second squad appearance of his Villa career.

Starting XI Average Age: | 25.21 |
Oldest Player: GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | 28.65 |
Youngest Player: M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 19.91 |

Referee
Manager

🟥 21 April 2021, Villa 1-2 Abu Dhabi, Villa Park.

MANAGER

Dean Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 2018-2021

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Aston Villa

GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 |
RB Matty Cash | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🟨 | 🟥 |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Matt Targett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 |
M John McGinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
M Marvelous Nakamba | 🇿🇼 | 🔁 |
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
W Bertrand Traoré | 🇧🇫 | 🔁 |
CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |

MANAGER

Pep Guardiola | 🇪🇸 |

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Manchester City

GK Ederson | 🇧🇷 |
RB Kyle Walker (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Rúben Dias | 🇵🇹 |
CB John Stones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟥 |
LB Oleksandr Zinchenko | 🇺🇦
M İlkay Gündoğan | 🇩🇪 | 🟨 |
M Rodri | 🇪🇸 | ⚽ |
M Bernado Silva | 🇵🇹 |
M Phil Foden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Riyad Mahrez | 🇩🇿 | 🔁 |
F Gabriel Jesus | 🇧🇷 | 🔁 |

Line Ups

🟥 21 April 2021, Villa 1-2 Abu Dhabi, Villa Park.

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 CF Keinan Davis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 46' |
🔁 M Ross Barkley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Marvelous Nakamba | 🇿🇼 | 63' |
🔁 W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 | for W Bertrand Traoré | 🇧🇫 | 75' |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | CB Aymeric Laporte | 🇪🇸 | for F Gabriel Jesus | 🇧🇷 | 46’ |
🔁 | M Fernandinho | 🇧🇷 | for W Riyad Mahrez | 🇩🇿 | 89’ |

Substitutes

🟥 21 April 2021, Villa 1-2 Abu Dhabi, Villa Park.

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Tom Heaton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Neil Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 |
CB Kortney Hause | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Björn Engels | 🇧🇪 |
M Carney Chukwuemeka | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Zack Steffen | 🇺🇸 |
CB Nathan Aké | 🇳🇱 |
CB Eric García | 🇪🇸 |
LB Benjamin Mendy | 🇫🇷 |
RB João Cancelo | 🇵🇹 |
W Ferran Torres | 🇪🇸 |
W Raheem Sterling | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Player Positions:

GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half


M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward

Match Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

Squad Bios

🟥 21 April 2021, Villa 1-2 Abu Dhabi, Villa Park.

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI Cost: £153.36m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £8.10m
Team Cost: £161.46m
Squad Cost: £180.27m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 13/20
Homegrown: 2/20

SQUAD STATS

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Manchester City arrive at Villa Park with the most expensive squad to ever face Villa having costed £749m.

1st XI Cost: £412.02m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 3/11
Homegrown: 1/11
Subs Cost: £94.50m
Team Cost: £506.52m
Squad Cost: £748.82m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 4/20
Homegrown: 1/20

🟥 21 April 2021, Villa 1-2 Abu Dhabi, Villa Park.

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | £19.58m |
GK Tom Heaton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £7.92m |

RB Matty Cash | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £14.18m |
LB Matt Targett | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £14.04m |
RB Ahmed Elmohamady | 🇪🇬 | £0.99m |
LB Neil Taylor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Exchange |

CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £20.60m |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £11.97m |
CB Björn Engels | 🇧🇪 | £7.20m |
CB Kortney Hause | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £2.70m |

M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 | £15.12m |
M Marvelous Nakamba | 🇿🇼 | £10.80m |
M John McGinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | £2.79m |
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |
M Carney Chukwuemeka | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |
M Ross Barkley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Loan |

W Bertrand Traoré | 🇧🇫 | £16.56m |
W Anwar El Ghazi | 🇳🇱 | £8.10m |

CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £27.72m |
CF Keinan Davis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Free |

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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GK Ederson | 🇧🇷 | £36.00m |
GK Zack Steffen | 🇺🇸 | £6.14m |

RB João Cancelo | 🇵🇹 | £58.50m |
LB Benjamin Mendy | 🇫🇷 | £49.35m |
RB Kyle Walker (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £47.43m |
LB Oleksandr Zinchenko | 🇺🇦 | £1.80m |

CB Rúben Dias | 🇵🇹 | £61.20m |
CB Aymeric Laporte | 🇪🇸 | £58.50m |
CB John Stones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £50.04m |
CB Nathan Aké | 🇳🇱 | £40.77m |
CB Eric García | 🇪🇸 | £1.46m |

M Rodri | 🇪🇸 | £56.43m |
M Bernado Silva | 🇵🇹 | £45.00m |
M Fernandinho | 🇧🇷 | £36.00m |
M Ilkay Gündogan | 🇩🇪 | £24.30m |
M Phil Foden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |

W Riyad Mahrez | 🇩🇿 | £61.02m |
W Raheem Sterling | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £57.33m |
W Ferran Torres | 🇪🇸 | £28.75m |

F Gabriel Jesus | 🇧🇷 | £28.80m |

🟥 21 April 2021, Villa 1-2 Abu Dhabi, Villa Park.

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 4 |
CF Wesley | 🇧🇷 | ACL, 4 Jan 2020 [55]
M Jack Grealish | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Leg, 21 Feb 2021 [9]
M Morgan Sanson | 🇫🇷 | Knee, 10 Apr 2021 [2]
W Trézéguet | 🇪🇬 | Ligament, 21 Apr 2021 [1]

Out on Loan | 3 |
M Conor Hourihane | 🇮🇪 | Swansea
RB Frédéric Guilbert | 🇫🇷 | Strasbourg
GK Lovre Kalinić | 🇭🇷 | Hajduk Split

Not Selected | 1 |
GK Jed Steer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

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MATCH QUOTES

Pre Match *Wednesday, 21 April 2021* *Villa manager Dean Smith* ​"I'm very pleased [the European Super League is not happening]. It's been a very strange 48-72 hours. I think it has brought a lot of emotion from football people. Hopefully we're back to normality now." --- Post Match *Wednesday, 21 April 2021* *Villa goalscorer and legend John McGinn* ​"It was just my feeling on the pitch but that was the best 90 minutes I have seen [from an opposition team]. It was a nightmare to be perfectly honest." --- *Wednesday, 21 April 2021* *Villa manager Dean Smith* ​"Great start - we played a ball in behind with a kick free kick which we had spoken about and then had to defend very because they had 25 minutes of wonderful football. ​"The disappointing part for me is the manner of the goals, we know Ederson has a good strike on him and they pick up the second ball there and if you lose against Man City you want them to be working wonderfully executed goals, you don't want to concede those kind of goals. Matty Cash's first yellow was harsh but second one was just stupid and reckless, with them having ten men you won’t get a better chance to beat City." ​"[Matty Cash's] first one [yellow card] was a pull, we don't seem to see many of them given, their red card [John Stones] was probably a yellow as well though. I think you can slow anything down and it looks worse - it was right in front of me and he’s gone for the ball and caught the man, you see that all the time. ​"Our plan was to get it out to the front two and get behind but we never got behind them enough, we got a few crosses in early on but once we had the man sent off the half time plan goes out the window. It was a bit more even at ten v ten but they have better technically gifted players than we have on the ball. ​"We made a great start. It was something we had spoken about. We have one of the best players in the league who can run in behind the oppositions defence in the shape of Ollie Watkins. ​"We defended reasonably well. It was probably the manner of the goals we conceded that was most disappointing "Cashy will learn from that. The second one was stupid and reckless. ​"Some of Manchester City's play play was outstanding. They schooled us at times. ​"I've been involved in professional football for 34 years and I haven't seen football come together like it has this week. That shows you how outraged people were at the plans." ---
Quotes

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MATCH REPORTS

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*The Guardian*
*Wednesday, 21 April 2021*

​After a tumultuous few days in which their dreams of a quadruple evaporated and their reputation acquired a foul odour, Manchester City got the result they needed to move closer to the Premier League title. Although this performance occasionally lapsed into slapdash errors – they conceded after 20 seconds and John Stones was sent off before half‑time – City were mostly superb, particularly Phil Foden. “At times it was like he was from a different planet,” said Aston Villa’s manager, Dean Smith. ​After falling behind almost immediately to a strike from John McGinn after a Stones error, City took charge and sashayed into the lead thanks to goals by Foden and Rodri. City dominated for long spells but had to endure difficult moments after Stones’s dismissal. But once Villa, too, were reduced to 10 men – Matty Cash was sent off for a pair of fouls on Foden before the hour – City’s victory did not look in doubt. ​“It has been the most difficult season of our lives for many reasons, and for all clubs, and now we just have to win two more games and get a draw to be champion,” Pep Guardiola said. “When you get into the last five games depending only on yourself, it’s a big boost.” ​Before kick-off City became the latest club to circulate a statement saying sorry for somehow signing up to the Super League. It was a particularly laughable effort, with the turn of events attributed to momentary forgetfulness. Apparently the City regime had “failed to remind ourselves” of values that are “fundamental to [the club’s] DNA”. Guardiola said the matter was now “a closed chapter”. Asked whether his employers said sorry to him personally, he replied: “I know the guys who I’m working with, they don’t need to apologise.” ​City made a shocking start at Villa Park, where Gareth Southgate was on hand to run the rule over several candidates for a place in England’s European Championship squad. He will have been impressed by the way Tyrone Mings and Ollie Watkins began; Stones, not so much. Play had barely begun when Mings surprised City with a quick free-kick down the left that Stones failed to cut out. Watkins pinged a low ball into the centre for McGinn, who arrived at speed to sweep it into the net past an uncharacteristically awkward-looking Ederson. ​Soon City started to dominate possession and pushed their hosts back. After 20 minutes Riyad Mahrez unloaded a stinging low effort from the edge of the area to force Emi Martínez into a save for the first time. City were finding their attacking rhythm. Two minutes later Martínez had to retrieve the ball from the net after City broke through with the sort of devastatingly intricate move that few teams can match. Foden was heavily involved, feeding Mahrez in the box before the Algeria international slipped the ball through to the overlapping Bernardo Silva. The Portuguese cut the ball back from the right into the path of Foden who, having darted into the area, slotted into the net from 10 yards. Foden began to flourish even more, taunting and hurting with jagged runs and searching passes. Yet still all was not quite right with City. Five minutes before half-time City took the lead, as Rodri glanced a header into the net from a lovely cross by Silva. But soon City relapsed into carelessness and, after the referee consulted the touchline screen, Stones was sent off for a late tackle on Jacob Ramsey, catching the teenager on the knee after being beaten by him to a bouncing ball. The defender will now miss Sunday’s Carabao Cup final date with Spurs. Ramsey was withdrawn at half‑time as Smith sent on a second striker, Keinan Davis. Guardiola took off City’s only striker, Gabriel Jesus, and introduced Aymeric Laporte to repair his defence. Not that City sought merely to protect their lead. They would have increased it in the 50th minute if Ilkay Gündogan had not left a pass too close to Martínez when Mahrez was waiting for a tap-in. Seven minutes later the sides were level – in terms of personnel numbers – as Cash was shown two yellow cards in quick succession. “Stupid and reckless,” said Smith. That rashness helped to settle City, who navigated their way serenely through the remaining half-hour. ---
Reports

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