American football predictions Bournemouth created an unexpected number of situations against Man City, but left empty-handed
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Manchester City recorded its most difficult home victory since the restart of the season, after beating only 2:1 over the struggling team of Bournemouth. The `Cherries` played a very strong match mentioned by americanfootball-predictions of `Etihad` and made almost twice as many blows as the `citizens` (14-8), but never managed to get at least a point. Once the beam helped Ederson. Otherwise, David Silva opened the score in the sixth minute, and Gabriel Jesus doubled (39 `) before the break. In the second half the goal of the guests was canceled due to a very thin ambush. They still got a goal through David Brooks, but it came too late and Eddie Howe`s team failed to get anything out of this match, although it deserved it.
Joseph Guardiola made six changes from a 5-0 win over Newcastle. John Stones, Nicolas Otamendi, Fernandinho, Ilkay Gundogan, David Silva and Phil Foden started. Aymeric Laport, Kevin De Bruyne and Rahim Stirling stayed on the bench for the start.
There were five adjustments in Bournemouth`s 11. Steve Cook, Joshua King, Junior Stanislas and Philip Billing started for the `cherries`.
In the sixth minute David Silva opened the score after a perfect execution of a direct free kick. The Spaniard crossed the wall and aimed the ball to the nearShe ricocheted off the crossbar and entered the helpless Ramsdale`s door. A few minutes later Fernandinho made a threatening shot from 25 meters, but the ball went away from the right crossbar.
However, the guests gradually recovered and began to look more boldly at Ederson`s door. In the 22nd minute, a long attack of the `cherries` ended with a nice turn of King in the penalty area, followed by a shot that went off the target.
Ten minutes later, Bournemouth was even closer to scoring. Junior Stanislas made a very good direct free kick, but Ederson managed to score, after which the guard was very lucky, as the ball bounced successively in the crossbar and in the head of the Brazilian, but eventually went into the
Shortly afterwards, Solanke got on the edge of the small penalty area, then turned well and shot, but at the last moment Otamendi intervened brilliantly and blocked the shot of the former Liverpool player.
During this period, the guests were the more dangerous team and created more interesting situations, but just then Manchester City struck its second blow. David Silva found Jesus in the penalty area, after which the Brazilian dealt with three defenders and shot sharply on the diagonal - 2:0.
Rahim Stirling appeared in the home game at the break, replacing Bernardo Silva. Eric Garcia replaced Walker.
There were two interesting situations in the second half related to the use of VAR. First, in the 60th minute King`s goal was canceled after the intervention of video assistants due to an ambush. Even after the graphs were displayed, the situation was very thin and a matter of centimeters. Ten minutes later, Lee Mason awarded a penalty in favor of City for a violation by Steve Cook against Gabriel Jesus. However, after VAR intervened, this decision was overturned, as it became clear that the defender was still playing with the ball.
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