Rodri bagged the winner for Manchester City against Sheffield United and more goals could be on the horizon
The midfielder will be etched into Manchester City history forever after his winner in the Champions League final, and perhaps it will be a sentence that becomes more and more common. Just as the Blues looked to have thrown away two points at Bramall Lane, up stepped Rodri to slap in a winner that leaves them as the only team in the Premier League to have won their opening three games.
They had to do it without the constant orchestrating from Pep Guardiola too, absent for the next few weeks with a back injury that required surgery. In his absence, Juanma Lillo rarely left his chair never mind the technical area as he took on a watching rather than a shouting brief. Soon after, City had what they had worked for. Alvarez was played in on the left side of the box and his cutback for Haaland was handled by Egan to present a clear and obvious decision for the ref and a tap-in for a side who had scored all five of their penalties against Sevilla in the Super Cup.
However scratchy a performance it was for City in attack, it was striking how comfortable they looked at the back on the back of two clean sheets in the league. Even without the injured John Stones and the ill Manu Akanji and the sold Aymeric Laporte and the outcast Joao Cancelo, the City defence was watertight.
When the defence is as solid as that, it wears down teams just as much as waves of pressure at the other end do and gives City a confidence that they can keep pressing to find a goal knowing that they won't be compromised at the back. Equally for opponents, if your chances of scoring dry up there is more pressure on keeping tight at the other end.
City snapped up Croatian pair Mateo Kovacic and Josko Gvardiol from Chelsea and RB Leipzig respectively with the latest addition being Jeremy Doku. In terms of outgoings, Treble winner Ilkay Gundogan departed for Barcelona, while Aymeric Laporte and Riyad Mahrez moved to Saudi Arabia.
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