The sky rammer reaches quarters

Manchester City passed Swansea to reach the FA Cup quarter-finals.

There was no color. The ball belonged from the start to Manchester City, who warned through Gabriel Jesus after two minutes of play. Swansea held up well, folded back, but unable to link a series of passes that would allow them to overcome midfield. He did it on a few occasions at the start of the match, although without giving Zack Steffen much work.

The celestial team moved and moved the ball. With patience, with speed, and pressing to recover it as soon as possible. After the first quarter of an hour, the occasions began to happen, with Jesus and Ferran Torres as protagonists. The Brazilian hooked a Benjamin center first Mendy from the left, a move that the Valencian replied shortly after.

It was a matter of time before the first goal came. And it came under strange circumstances. Kyle Walker went up the right wing until he was at the top of the area, from where he sent a low center that nobody finished off, that nobody cleared, and that ended up staying in the rival goal. The defender’s second goal this season.

The match ended with the start of the second half. In the first minute of the restart, Raheem Sterling He picked up a pass from Rodrigo into space and was planted in the Swansea area to definei perfectly with a cross shot. The Englishman was placed with 12 points as the top scorer of the course in City. The Welsh’s chances of getting back into the game vanished three minutes later.

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Gabriel Jesus sentenced, who finally found the prize for his insistence. Ilkay Gündogan made the ball cross the field until he found the head of Bernardo Silva. The Portuguese jumped out and set it up for Jesus, who with exquisite control dumped his marker, turned and then beat Woodman.

Steve Cooper tried to change the game with several changes in his team, but none ended up breaking the visiting domain. Only Morgan Whittaker managed to prevent City from closing another game with a clean sheet in an isolated play with less than a quarter of an hour to go.

scorer diversity

The City hardly accused the loss of Sergio Agüero so far in 2021. Several players have taken responsibility in the scoring task. 16 footballers have marked this season with the light blue jacket.

Destaca Raheem Sterling, who with his goal at Liberty Stadium became the top scorer of the Manchester City campaign with 12 goals. Gabriel Jesus scored again, and already has eight goals in 21 games.

200 wins with pep

With the victory against Swansea City, Pep Guardiola He has already won 200 games as Manchester City manager since his arrival in the summer of 2016. There are 659 goals in 268 games, an average of 2.46 goals per game.

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The victory was also the 15th in a row for City, which has 22 games without losing this season.

MATCH PLAYER

Rodrigo was in everything. Safe behind, stealing, protecting the ball and giving it an exit. Also in attack, attending Sterling with a fantastic pass into space on the first play of the second half.

The performance of the Madrilenian left a negative note, his injury. Pep Guardiola he replaced him after the midfielder suffered intensely on the pitch after being fouled twenty minutes from time.

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EQUIPMENT

SWANSEA: Freddie Woodman, Ben Cabango, Joel Latibeaudiere, Marc Guehi (Jake Bidwell 66’), Connor Roberts (Kieron Freeman 66’), Jay Fulton, Matt Grimes, Ryan Manning, Yan Dhanda (Conor Hourihane 77’), Jamal Lowe (Paul Arriola 65’), Jordan Morris (Morgan Whittaker 66’).

Banquillo: Lewis Webb, Kyle Naughton, Ryan Bennett, André Ayew.

CITY: Zack Steffen, Kyle Walker, Eric Garcia, Aymeric Laporte, Benjamin Mendy, Rodrigo (Claudio Gomes 72 ‘), Ilkay Gündogan (Tommy Doyle 57’), Bernardo Silva (Phil Foden 66 ‘), Ferran Torres, Raheem Sterling (Riyad Mahrez 57’), Gabriel Jesus,

Bench: Ederson, John Stones, Joao Cancelo, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Adrià Bernabé.

WHAT COMES

Wait until Thursday to meet Manchester City’s rival in the FA Cup quarter-finals. The draw will take place at 7:45 p.m. GMT, just before the last tie of the fifth round between Barnsley and Chelsea. The quarterfinals will be played on the weekend of March 20.

Much earlier, this same Saturday, the celestial ones receive the visit of Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League. Next week it will be the Mancunians who will make two outings. The first, on Wednesday the 17th, to recover the league game postponed in December at Goodison Park against Everton. The second will be in London on Sunday 21, to face Arsenal.

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