Kevin De Bruyne recovered the magic and Julián Álvarez’s Manchester City won a great match against Newcastle

Manchester City won a great match against Newcastle and I owe him a lot Kevin De Bruynethe Belgian star who came on in the second half to score the equalizer with a great goal and a few minutes later assisted in the final moments of the match to clinch the victory.

The team led by Pep GuardiolaWhich he had Giuliano Alvarez As a starter, he dominated much of the match and took a 1-0 lead thanks to a phenomenal goal from the Portuguese Bernardo Silva, in the 26th minute of the first half. However, a burst from the Magpies in the 35th and 37th minutes allowed the local side to go into half-time with a huge lead.

Another incident of those first 45 minutes was the Brazilian’s injury Edersonthe City goalkeeper, who came off injured at the start of the match, was replaced by the German Stefan Ortega.

With this feeling of injustice, City went in search of an equalizer from the start of the second half, and had several actions to achieve it: in one of these, Julián collected a rebound near the six-yard box and picked to place the ball ball but it went over the crossbar.

The match seemed destined for defeat for Pep’s team, which at this start of the season fell to the same rival for the League Cup, suffering the first setback in an almost perfect 2023. Until Kevin showed up.

De Bruyne entered the field in the 68th minute and six minutes later took the ball in his favorite area of ​​the pitch, running, in front of the goal and a few meters before entering the area. Instead of hitting point-blank with his powerful right hand, the Belgian made a strange movement to adapt and with the inside of his foot he crossed low, onto the Slovenian goalkeeper’s right post. Martin Dubravkaso far one of the figures of the meeting.

This was shouted angrily by De Bruyne, who is slowly returning to his best version after a start to the season that kept him away from the pitch for five months due to the injury sustained in the Champions League final that his team beat against ‘Inter.

City are aiming for victory, and once again it was De Bruyne who was the most lucid in identifying the small spaces left by Newcastle in defence. The Belgian appeared once again in that small part of the pitch where he is always clear what needs to be done, but this time he chose to pass it. His deep ball to Norwegian Oscar Bobb lived up to the definition of the young twenty-year-old who had entered the field shortly before.

Bobb stopped the action and got rid of poor Dubravka’s save with a foot-to-foot that allowed him to finish into an empty net. Great goal and crazy celebration from Pep Guardiola, who is still struggling in the Premier League awaiting the recovery of his other figure, Erling Haaland.

With this result, City is two points behind Liverpool, one ahead of Emiliano Martínez’s Aston Villa and three points ahead of Arsenal, in an English championship that promises an exciting finale.