WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY FOR THE MATCH BETWEEN BOURNEMOUTH VS MANCHESTER CITY YESTERDAY, WITH BRIGHT SUNSHINE BOUNCING OFF THE PITCH AND ONTO THE SUPERSTAR PLAYERS! IT WAS BOURNEMOUTH’S EVANLISON WHO SCORED FIRST AT 21 MINS., AFTER A SUPERB ASSIST FROM KLUIVERT, AND ALTHOUGH MAN CITY HAD 17 SHOTS, WITH 7 ON TARGET (AND 64% POSSESSION) THROUGHOUT, THERE WAS NOT MUCH-DOING FROM THEIR SIDE IN THE FIRST-HALF, (APART FROM TWO-OR-THREE NEAR-MISSES FROM HAALAND), WHICH NO-ONE COULD BE ANNOYED ABOUT, BECAUSE OF HIS CHEEKY SMILE! BUT IN THE SECOND-HALF PEP BROUGHT ON NICO O’REILLY WHO LITERALLY SEEMED TO CHANGE THE GAME, AND AFTER JUST A FEW MINUTES, MADE THE MOST STUPENDOUS PASS OVER TO HAALAND WHICH HE VERY EASILY NIPPED INTO GOAL. A LITTLE WHILE LATER, HAALAND SUSTAINED AN INJURY TO HIS ANKLE AFTER BEING BUNDLED INTO THE BARRIER ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE PITCH, AND WAS REPLACED BY OMAR MARMOUSH WHO SCORED A CRACKER ON HIS FIRST TOUCH AT 63 MINS., WITH MAN CITY, BY NOW, MAKING THE SECOND-HALF EXTREMELY EXCITING FOR CITY FANS! IT WAS FULL-ON ACTION THROUGHOUT, WITH MAN CITY MAKING 516 PASSES, WITH AN 81% PASS ACCURACY, AND BOURNEMOUTH MAKING 290 PASSES, WITH A 67% PASS ACCURACY, AND ALSO HAVING 5 SHOTS, WITH 2 ON TARGET (INCLUDING EVANLISON’S STUNNER.) BUT WITH NOTHING FURTHER REACHING-THE-BACK-OF-THE NET, THE MATCH ENDED IN A 2 – 1 WIN TO MAN CITY, (FOR A RECORD SEVENTH SUCCESSIVE SEASON), AND A PLACE IN THE FA CUP SEMI-FINALS! (WE WISH HAALAND ALL THE BEST FOR A SPEEDY RECOVERY!)
NICO O’REILLY WAS BROUGHT ON OFF THE BENCH BY PEP JUST AFTER HALF-TIME YESTERDAY AND MADE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PASS TO A-READY-AND-A-WAITING HAALAND, WHO SLID THE BALL INTO GOAL AS-EASY-AS-YOU-LIKE – IT WAS CLASS! HERE, NICO SPEAKS OF HIS GRATITUDE FOR THE CHANCES HE IS GIVEN BY PEP, AFTER THE GAME!
