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Game #5714

Aston Villa

18-5-8, 59 PTS

Wednesday, 3 April 2024

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Lost

4th (-)

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟥

Premier League

Manchester City

20-7-3, 67 PTS

Etihad Stadium

Attendance: 53,422

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Abu Dhabi

4-1

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Assist(s): Morgan Rogers | 20’ |

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MATCH TIMELINE

Wednesday, 3 April 2024

🥅 | 11’ Goal, 0-1, (Manchester City), Rodri
⚽ | 20’ Goal, 1-1, Jhon Durán, Assist by Morgan Rogers
🟨 | 38’ Booking, Douglas Luiz for a bad foul
🥅 | 45’+2 Goal, 1-2, (Manchester City), Phil Foden
🕒 | 45’+6 HT Manchester City 2-1 Aston Villa
🥅 | 62’ Goal, 1-3, (Manchester City), Phil Foden
🔁 | 63’ Sub off, Tim Iroegbunam, Sub on, Youri Tielemans
🔁 | 63’ Sub off, Moussa Diaby, Sub on, Leon Bailey
🔁 | 64’ Sub off, Douglas Luiz, Sub on, Calum Chambers
🥅 | 69’ Goal, 1-4, (Manchester City), Phil Foden
🔁 | 71’ Sub off, Jhon Durán, Sub on, Álex Moreno
🔁 | 77’ Sub off, Nicolò Zaniolo, Sub on, Omari Kellyman
🟨 | 90’+4 Booking, Calum Chambers for a bad foul
🕒 | 90’+4 HT Manchester City 4-1 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Possession F | 33%

Possession A | 67%


Shots F | 8
Shots A | 25

Shots on Target F | 3
Shots on Target A | 11

Corners F | 3
Corners A | 2

Fouls F | 13
Fouls A | 6

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ON THIS DAY

Wednesday, 3 April 2024

  • Villa have Emiliano Martínez, Matty Cash, John McGinn, Ollie Watkins, Jacob Ramsey, Boubacar Kamara, Tyrone Mings and Emiliano Buendía missing in an unprecedented run of absences.

  • But with no refereeing generosity today - after all Jonathan Moss has been 'retired' - and in truth, the club formerly known as Manchester City for once actually deserved their victory over Villa, albeit a second string Villa.

  • Robin Olsen makes his first start in a Villa shirt since November 2023 and his 10th start in three years with the club (13 Appearances) to make it W5 D1 L7, 25 Goals Conceded at a rate of 1.92 goals per game and 3 Clean Sheets (12%) so far in his Villa career.

  • Jhon Durán makes his second League start in 2024 to make it 39 Appearances, 9 Starts, W22 D7 L10, 6 Goals and 7 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Nicolò Zaniolo makes his first start since December to make it 33 Appearances, 11 Starts, W15 D8 L10, 3 Goals, 1 Assist and 11 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Tim Iroegbunam makes his first ever League start in a Villa shirt on his 14th appearance (3 Starts) to make it W7 D2 L5 and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.

  • Morgan Rogers contributes his 1st goal involvement for in a Villa shirt on his 5th start of his nascent Villa career to make it W5 D2 L1, 1 Assist and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

  • Omari Kellyman makes his Premier League debut on his 4th appearance in a Villa shirt (1 Start) to make it W2 D0 L2 and 1 Assist so far in his Villa career.

  • Douglas Luiz, one of the few experienced Villa players in the line up, makes his 195th appearance (174 Starts) in a Villa shirt to make it W82 D35 L78, 22 Goals, 24 Assists, 47 Bookings and 2 Red Cards so far in his Villa career.

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

None

FINAL APPEARANCES

None

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Aston Villa

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

Manchester City

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European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
UEFA Cup Winners Cup: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆*🏆*🏆* 🏆🏆🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆*🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆*🏆*🏆* 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 2022-23

*Currently 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: 🟥 🟥 🟨 🟥 🟩

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FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 2023-24 |
Matchday | #45 |
League Game | #31 |
Manager Game | #72 |
Wednesday, 3 April 2024
Attendance | 53,422 |

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MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | Hondarribia, 2022-
Referee: Darren England | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Doncaster, 2015-
Kick off: 8.15pm
HT Score: 🟥 1-2
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-4
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟨 🟩 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | 2022-

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 72 | 🟩 | 41 🟨 | 12 🟥 19 | 1.88

Villa Career Form:

Top 4

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | 2022-

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MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Darren England | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Doncaster, 2015-
Matches Officiated: 11
🟩 : 3
🟨 : 3
🟥 : 5
🆘 : 1
Previous 5: 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟥 🟩
Last Match: 🟩 16 September 2023, Villa 3-1 Palace, Villa Park
Cards: 🟨 🟨 🟨
Assistants: Eddie Smart, Nick Greenhalgh.
Fourth official: Rob Jones.
VAR: John Brooks.
Assistant VAR: Simon Bennett.

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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🟨 Douglas Luiz, Bad foul
🟨 Calum Chambers, Bad foul

🟨 Jack Grealish

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

Villa already without first teamers Emiliano Buendía, Tyrone Mings, Boubacar Kamara, Jacob Ramsey, Matty Cash, John McGinn and Ollie Watkins lose Emiliano Martínez just before kick off through illness. Robin Olsen is called up as emergency ‘keeper leaving Villa with eight subs.

Hardly the ideal position to be in when facing Abu Dhabi at the Emptihad full of refereeing favours but pragmatism prevails. Fellow first teamers Álex Moreno, Pau Torres and Leon Bailey are rested by Unai Emery. In sum then, Villa take the field at the Emptihad with a team that is unrecognisable in its construct.

Without meaning any disrespect to the players selected, Emery clearly has bigger fish to fry than playing the Harlem Globetrotters of Abu Dhabi.

Squad Average Age: 25.99
Starting XI Average Age: 26.36
Subs Average Age: 26.41
Bench Average Age: 25.49

Oldest Starter: GK Robin Olsen | 🇸🇪 | 33.70 |
Youngest Starter: CF Jhon Durán | 🇨🇴 | 20.32 |

Oldest Squad Player: GK Robin Olsen | 🇸🇪 | 33.70 |
Youngest Squad Player: F Omari Kellyman | 🇬🇧 | 18.54 |

Oldest Substitute: LB Álex Moreno | 🇪🇸 | 30.68 |
Youngest Substitute: F Omari Kellyman | 🇬🇧 | 18.54 |

Referee
Manager

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MANAGER

Unai Emery | 🇪🇸 | 2022-

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Aston Villa

GK Robin Olsen | 🇸🇪 |
CB Diego Carlos | 🇧🇷 |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Clément Lenglet | 🇫🇷 |
LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 |
M Tim Iroegbunam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
M Morgan Rogers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
M Nicolò Zaniolo | 🇮🇹 | 🔁 |
W Moussa Diaby | 🇫🇷 | 🔁 |
CF Jhon Durán | 🇨🇴 | ⚽ | 🔁 |

MANAGER

Pep Guardiola | 🇪🇸 |

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Manchester City

GK Stefan Ortega | 🇪🇸 |
RB Rico Lewis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB Rúben Dias | 🇵🇹 |
CB Manuel Akanji |🇨🇭|
CB Josko Gvardiol | 🇭🇷 |
M Rodri | 🇪🇸 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
M Bernardo Silva | 🇵🇹 | 🔁 |
W Jack Grealish (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 |
W Phil Foden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |
W Jérémy Doku | 🇧🇪 | 🔁 |
CF Julián Álvarez | 🇦🇷 |

Line Ups

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SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Youri Tielemans | 🇧🇪 | for M Tim Iroegbunam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 63’ |
🔁 | W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | for W Moussa Diaby | 🇫🇷 | 63’ |
🔁 | CB Calum Chambers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 | 64’ |
🔁 | LB Álex Moreno | 🇪🇸 | for CF Jhon Durán | 🇨🇴 | 71’ |
🔁 | F Omari Kellyman | 🇬🇧 | for M Nicolò Zaniolo | 🇮🇹 | 77’ |

SUBSTITUTES

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🔁 | M Matheus Nunes | 🇵🇹 | for M Rodri | 🇪🇸 | 75’ |
🔁 | M Mateo Kovacic | 🇭🇷 | for M Bernardo Silva | 🇵🇹 | 75’ |
🔁 | LB Sergio Gómez | 🇪🇸 | for W Jérémy Doku | 🇧🇪 | 80’ |
🔁 | W Oscar Bobb | 🇳🇴 | for W Phil Foden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 80’ |

Substitutes

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UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Joe Gauci | 🇦🇺 |
CB Pau Torres | 🇪🇸 |
RB Kaine Kesler Hayden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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GK Scott Carson (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CB John Stones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Kevin De Bruyne | 🇧🇪 |
M Mahamadou Susoho | 🇪🇸 |
CF Erling Haaland | 🇳🇴 |

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

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SQUAD STATS

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1st XI Cost: £154.93m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 3/11
Homegrown: 1/11

Subs Cost: £40.99m
Team Cost: £195.92m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/16
Homegrown: 1/16

Matchday Squad Cost: £225.80
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 6/20
Homegrown: 2/20

Total Squad Cost: £377.46m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 18/37
Homegrown: 11/37

SQUAD STATS

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1st XI Cost: £427.89m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 3/11
Homegrown: 2/11

Subs Cost: £89.81m
Team Cost: £517.70m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 3/15
Homegrown: 2/15

Matchday Squad Cost: £690.14m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 5/20
Homegrown: 2/20

Total Squad Cost: £947.28m
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/34
Homegrown: 5/34

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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GK Robin Olsen | 🇸🇪 | £3.00m |
GK Joe Gauci | 🇦🇺 | £1.28m |

CB Pau Torres | 🇪🇸 | £28.60m |
CB Diego Carlos | 🇧🇷 | £27.90m |
CB Ezri Konsa | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £11.97m |
CB Calum Chambers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Free |
CB Clément Lenglet | 🇫🇷 | Loan |

LB Lucas Digne | 🇫🇷 | £27.00m |
LB Álex Moreno | 🇪🇸 | £11.59m |
RB Kaine Kesler Hayden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |

M Douglas Luiz | 🇧🇷 | £15.12m |
M Morgan Rogers | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £8.00m |
M Tim Iroegbunam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |
M Youri Tielemans | 🇧🇪 | Free |
M Nicolò Zaniolo | 🇮🇹 | Loan |

W Moussa Diaby | 🇫🇷 | £47.66m |
W Leon Bailey | 🇯🇲 | £28.80m |

CF Jhon Durán | 🇨🇴 | £14.28m |
F Omari Kellyman | 🇬🇧 | Youth |

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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GK Stefan Ortega | 🇪🇸 | Free |
GK Scott Carson (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Free |

CB Josko Gvardiol | 🇭🇷 | £77.45m |
CB Rúben Dias | 🇵🇹 | £61.20m |
CB John Stones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £50.04m |
CB Manuel Akanji |🇨🇭| £15.50m |

LB Sergio Gómez | 🇪🇸 | £11.70m |
RB Rico Lewis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |

M Kevin De Bruyne | 🇧🇪 | £68.40m |
M Rodri | 🇪🇸 | £56.43m |
M Matheus Nunes | 🇵🇹 | £53.00m |
M Bernardo Silva | 🇵🇹 | £45.00m |
M Mateo Kovacic | 🇭🇷 | £25.11m |
M Mahamadou Susoho | 🇪🇸 | Free |

W Jack Grealish (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | £105.75m |
W Jérémy Doku | 🇧🇪 | £51.26m |
W Phil Foden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Youth |
W Oscar Bobb | 🇳🇴 | Free |

CF Erling Haaland | 🇳🇴 | £54.00m |
CF Julián Álvarez | 🇦🇷 | £15.30m |

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UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 7 |
W Emiliano Buendía | 🇦🇷 | ACL, 12 Aug 2023 [45]
CB Tyrone Mings | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ACL, 20 Aug 2023 [44]
M Boubacar Kamara | 🇫🇷 | ACL, 17 Feb 2024 [9]
M Jacob Ramsey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Foot, 7 Mar 2024 [6]
RB Matty Cash | 🇵🇱 | Thigh, 30 Mar 2024 [2]
CF Ollie Watkins | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Thigh, 3 Apr 2024 [1]
GK Emiliano Martínez | 🇦🇷 | Illness, 3 Apr 2024 [1]

Suspension | 1 |
M John McGinn | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

Out On Loan | 7 |
CF Louie Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Stockport
GK Viljami Sinisalo | 🇫🇮 | Exeter
M Morgan Sanson | 🇫🇷 | Nice
M Philippe Coutinho | 🇧🇷 | Al-Duhail
M Leander Dendoncker | 🇧🇪 | Napoli
CB Josh Feeney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Real Unión
M Tommi O'Reilly | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Real Unión

UNAVAILABLE

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Injury | 3 |
GK Ederson | 🇧🇷 |
CB Nathan Aké | 🇳🇱 |
RB Kyle Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Out on Loan | 9 |
CB Taylor Harwood-Bellis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB João Cancelo | 🇵🇹 |
RB Issa Kaboré | 🇧🇫 |
Josh Wilson-Esbrand | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Kalvin Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Claudio Echeverri | 🇦🇷 |
M Máximo Perrone | 🇦🇷 |
M Tommy Doyle | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M James McAtee | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

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MATCH QUOTES

"Robin [Olsen] played well, we conceded four goals but he saved some so really good. Until the first goal we played well. We had a chance to draw the match but when they scored the third goal they showed their power. They are up there with Arsenal and Liverpool and today they confirmed it. "We have some injuries, we played Saturday and again this week. We have to try and save some players. We decided to do a competitive team with some young players too to get some confidence. At the end of the match we know they deserved the match they were better than us and they showed it. "Scoring goals is good. We try for the best performances and with Jhon [Duran] we keep going. "Focus is now Brentford. Difficult match coming up on Saturday. "We competed until the third goal but it's difficult to beat them here. They showed their power they are in contention for title again. We competed, we tried to do what we can do good but they showed their power so congratulations to them. "We tried to get tight but then they scored the third goal and it's more difficult so we tried to manage the 90 minutes and get something. "Robin [Olsen] is always ready to play and he did good work, he saved some good actions but we conceded four goals and for a goalkeeper that's not good. “It’s 38 matches and we are being consistent. Of course, when we are facing some matches against these teams they are showing their power. Newcastle, Liverpool, Manchester United we lost more or less two matches against them but we compete and were close to getting good performances playing only the matches against those teams in that moment. “Today, against Manchester City they showed their power and they showed now they’re going to be contenders with Arsenal and Liverpool to win this trophy in the Premier League. We have to try to get our spaces in the table and we are of course fourth still even after losing today. Our challenge now is Brentford on Saturday, to get three points like we were trying against Manchester City but with their power they deserved to win and were better. “We won against them at home and competed very well under different circumstances but the circumstances we have today were not enough to try to get three points. “Today was clear, we were motivated and excited to be competitive, trying to be consistent like we are being in the Premier League. Of course, fighting and playing against Manchester City, we were competing until the minute 60 and we were as well playing to try and build our team playing with players who have not been playing a lot. "We will need them. We need to give them chances to play. They need confidence and practice. Manchester City showed us, even when we nearly scored at 2-1, they were pushing us a lot. They deserved to win. "We made changes because we need to for some injuries and because as well, some players need to get confidence playing and practicing. "We will play a lot of matches for the next weeks, starting on Saturday against Brentford and then in the Conference League with Lille. It was important to be intelligent playing against Man City. We prepared the match trying to win, but thinking as well with some players injured and McGinn suspended, getting practice with some players. “We are without some players in some positions. It’s very important to recover, McGinn being available for Saturday. We are not with Jacob Ramsey and we need players. This is a good reason to give players minutes, like Tim [Iroegbunam] in the middle. Every minute he’s adding for us is important and then trying to continue being strong in the structure with the players. Unai Emery post match.
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