Dear old Marius clearly forgets and he slides in and buries the ball past Nishikawa and into his own net. Man City break the deadlock against Urawa Red Diamonds in the Club World Cup 💥 pic. com/8tKcHRgRaX 44th minute: Grealish dabs the ball over a sliding Sekine but he runs out of room and it's a goal kick. 41st minute: A nice sharp one-two between Kovacic and Rodri but Urawa manage to shut the door on the Croatia international. Hoibraten with the crucial challenge. 38th minute: Akanji chips a pass to no one in particular out for a goal kick. Guardiola applauds, presumably for the ambition as opposed to the God-awful execution. The crowd cheer as Erling Haaland and Kevin De Bruyne appear on the big screen.
Both Nunes and Kovacic have suffered minor injury problems since joining City. The Croatia international impressed early on in the season but back-to-back fraught displays in defeats to Wolverhampton Wanderers and Arsenal checked his progress. Nunes, for all his ball-carrying prowess, has looked an uneasy fit in a team lacking its usual rhythm.
45th minute+1: Urawa respond with a foray forward to win a corner. City deal with it, Kante halts Grealish's attempted counter somewhat agriculturally and gets a talking to from te referee. 45th minute: GOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL!!!! Marius Hoibraten (OG)!!! Oh no, what have you done? Urawa have put in a determined defensive effort and are within touching distance of halftime as Nunes burst down the right. It's a well-hit low cross, but there's no pressure on Hoibraten. City aren't playing with a centre-forward, remember.
To say City could do with their injured duo's cutting edge would be an understatement. 38th minute: Grealish skips around the outside of Sekine to win City's latest corner. They take it short, Kovacic is involved. Here's Foden with a rasping shot. It's a nice height and Nishikawa pushes to safety. 31st minute: Nunes bustles down the right channel and bursts through a challenge. The ball sits up nicely and Nishikawa does well to turn behind a left-footed effort that was travelling. 30th minute: Foden whips in cross from Grealish's pass.
Nunes gets the glancing header all wrong. That was a better chance than he made it look. 29th minute: Grealish swings in the corner from the left and Nishikawa is almost caught out with an "Olimpico" punching clear from under his crossbar at the back post. 28th minute: Foden and Silva switch positions and the latter tees up the former but his shot is into traffic. Now Foden again. A bit more urgency about City with the England an through the middle. Rodri lines up another low drive and it's deflected behind.
Mateo Kovacic brilliantly doubles Man City's lead! 🤩 The Croatian expertly gets his first goal of the season! 🔥 pic. twitter. com/jwqi4QTPA1 51st minute: Nunes mishits his latest cross from inside the Urawa box. Mercifully Nishikawa is able to grasp this one before any of his defenders boot it past him. 48th minute: Foden enjoying a little more room to menacingly roam through the Urawa midfield. His pass to Bernardo is a touch behind his team-mate.
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