WHAT AN EXCITING MATCH THIS WAS THIS AFTERNOON, WITH MAN CITY FACING AN EXTREEEEMELY WELL-ORGANISED BRENTFORD (WHO CUT SOME DEFENSIVE MOVES THAT EVEN PEP MIGHT NOT HAVE SEEN BEFORE! I.E. RUNNING ON THE SPOT JUST TO CONFUSE (KEEPY-UPPY STYLE.)😊 IT WAS A BRILLIANT AFTERNOON, AND MAN CITY WERE UNABLE TO GET PAST BRENTFORD UNTIL THE SECOND-HALF, SUCH WAS BRENTFORD’S TENACITY. THERE WAS LOT’S OF FRUSTRATION FROM BOTH SIDES WITH SO MUCH AT STAKE, AND MORE THAN A LITTLE ARGEY-BARGEY, (AND YELLOW CARDS.) DOKU NEARLY SCORED AN EARLY GOAL IN THE FIRST-HALF, BUT KELLEHER DUCKED DOWN FOR A LOW SAVE, AND HAALAND HEADED ONE INTO GOAL, WITH KELLEHER ONCE AGAIN MAKING A GOOD SAVE, AND HAALAND’S THIRD HEADER WAS BLOCKED BY COLLINS. BRENTFORD MADE 309 PASSES, WITH A 77% PASS ACCURACY, HAD 2 CORNERS, AND 4 SHOTS WITH 2 ON-TARGET, INCLUDING A CRACKER FROM THIAGO, FOR WHICH DONNARUMMA WAS A-READY-AND-A-WAITING, PUSHING THE BALL UP-AND-OVER THE BAR. MAN CITY MADE 445 PASSES WITH AN 88% PASS ACCURACY, (HAD 60% POSSESSION), 10 CORNERS, AND 23 SHOTS WITH 9 0N-TARGET, (WITH AT LEAST 2 OF THOSE COMING FROM PHIL FODEN, BUT KELLEHER’S QUICK-THINKING THWARTED HIS SUPERB ATTEMPTS), AND THEN CAME AN ABSOLUTE CRACKER FROM JEREMY DOKU AT 60 MINS., (WHO HAD BEEN WELL IN-CHARGE OF THE BALL WITH HIS EXPERT DRIBBLING FOR MOST OF THE MATCH), FOLLOWED BY A SUPERB BACK-HEEL FROM HAALAND – WHICH RESULTED AFTER SOME COMPLICATED PLAY IN THE BOX LOOKED LIKE HE COULD LOSE HIS BALANCE – BUT INSTEAD, HE DID A SORT OF STANDING KARTWHEEL AND SCORED A BACKHEEL! (HE’S NOTHING IF NOT ACROBATIC!) AND FINALLY, ANOTHER SUPERB GOAL FROM OMAR MARMOUSH, FOLLOWING A PRECISE PASS FROM HAALAND AT 90 +2 MINS., JUST TO FINISH OFF A BRILLIANT AFTERNOON! AND SURE ENOUGH, THE ETIHAD WENT WILD! THIS MEANS THAT MAN CITY TAKE 3 POINTS AND ARE NOW ONLY 2 POINTS BEHIND ARSENAL AT THE TOP OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE!
PREMIER LEAGUE : MAN CITY VS BRENTFORD – 09/05/2026
PEP GUARDIOLA SPEAKS AFTER THE MATCH
WATCH THE FULL-TIME SCENES AS MAN CITY WIN 3 – 0 TO PUT THE PRESSURE ON ARSENAL FOR THE TITLE RACE
