Misfortune has crossed the path of Manchester City, who saw a new opportunity slip away yesterday to redeem the unprecedented bad streak that this first stretch of the season has had against an Everton that, without a doubt, did not make it easy for them in any stretch. of the Boxing Day match.
The coach of the Merseyside County team, Sean Dyche, already warned before the match that if they could, they would take advantage of this streak of the citizens to achieve something that, in another time, would have almost been possible. Cautiously, of course, because the players in front of them were still top-level.
And we can already see that they took advantage of it, so much so that they were on the verge of taking the game in the last minute of the game, when they had a four-two against that, in the end, they could not or did not know how to take advantage of.
Everton’s English goalkeeper, Pickford, hit Haaland’s shot with help: some notes on his water bottle.
Key moment
However, the key moment of the match was the maximum penalty that Erling Haaland took when the score was tied at one. The Norwegian striker, undoubtedly affected by the negative inertia of his team, made up his mind and took the penalty to the right of Jordan Pickford who remained firm throughout the game.
And even more so in the moment before Haaland’s own launch, when he dedicated himself to trying to divert the Norwegian’s attention by making fusses and gestures to distract him. They were called “antics” in the English press. All in all, the English international goalkeeper used some ‘chops’ in his water bottle on which he had written down the percentages of the possible City pitchers. Result? Pickford save.
More wood for a Manchester City that will have a new opportunity against Van Nistelrooy’s Leicester to close this horrible end of the year with that victory so longed for by Pep Guardiola’s team.
