Kevin De Bruyne claps hands with Julián Álvarez to celebrate one of his goals for Manchester City, who beat América de México. Photo: Logan Riely / Getty Images / AFP
After the praise that Pep Guardiola addressed to him in the previous one, all eyes were on the debut Julian Alvarez in City of Man. Were 70 minutes on the pitch in victory Mexico Americain Houston, where although did not register shots on goalgenerated a breakout that earned him one of the Belgian’s two goals Kevin De Bruyne.
It was a proper premiere of the Spiderwhere it was seen bouncy, quick on pressure and good back touches. His off-the-ball intervention, to pull right when De Bruyne hit the ball and faced in before taking the right hand which dug into the post and meant 1-0, was a good read movement.
Julián Álvarez was active in frontline pressure, one of the hallmarks of Pep Guardiola’s teams. Photo: Thomas Shea-USA TODAY Sport
Calchín’s Cordovan will have to win the minutes of this preseason, which will continue next Saturday against Bayern Munich, where it will probably be the turn of the Norwegian Erling Haaland, the other scorer on which the Citizens have bet in this market.
Julián Alvarez was right with the ball, other than that he didn’t have as much imbalance as the one shown at River. Photo: Riely / Getty Images / AFP
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