Pep Guardiola celebrated his 500th game in charge of Manchester City with a hard fought 2-0 win against Leicester City.
2024/2025 Premier League
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Match Report
City climbed back into the top five with the victory having recorded just one across their last nine outings in the top-flight prior to this meeting, while the Foxes continue to dwell in the bottom three with a fourth loss on the bounce.
Savinho's opener and first goal in the Premier League settled the Man City nerves early on but it was far from convincing in the first half.
Jamie Vardy's penalty claim, which looked certain to be given, was waved off after being brought down by Stefan Ortega due to the offside flag, before James Justin's header cannoned off the post just before the break.
City weathered the storm after the restart as Leicester continued to push for an equaliser, with Vardy going close from point-blank range, only for Erling Haaland to score his first goal in just under a month after rising highest to meet Savinho's cross on the counter with 15 minutes to go.
A well-needed win for Guardiola and his men. Although, they still looked a shadow of the team we have grown accustomed to watching for the past 500 games.
Match Events
0' The match is about to start!
2' Match Event for Leicester vs Man City
5' Kevin De Bruyne's long shot went over the crossbar
6' Highlight from Leicester vs Man City
7' Erling Haaland almost scores a goal!
11' Almost penalty! Ortega knocked down offside Vardy in the penalty area
17' Gvardiol almost assisted Vardy with an own goal
21' GOAL! Leicester 0-1 Man City （Savinho scored with a rebound）
27' Haaland's header in the penalty area was saved
30' De Bruyne fell in the penalty area, but the referee made no comment
36' Haaland's shot went slightly wide of the goal
38' That was close! Buonanotte's header hit the post
46' Kovacic's long shot went too high
51' Buonanotte fell in the penalty area but the referee made no comment.
52' Kovacic was knocked down by Mavididi's dribble
62' That was close! Akanji made a goal-line clearance!
68' Vardy's shot went slightly over the crossbar
70' Walker came on and Aké was subbed off
74' GOAL! Leicester 0-2 Man City (Haaland scored a header)
85' Foden tried a curled shot but the ball went wide
85' McAtee's curled shot also went wide
90' Vardy shot a header but the ball hit the crossbar
Line-ups
Leicester XI: Vestergaard, Vardy, Coady, Winks, Mavididi, Justin, Soumaré, Jakub Stolarczyk, Victor Kristiansen, Bilal El Khannouss, Facundo Buonanotte
Subs: Bobby De Cordova-Reid, Daniel Iversen, Patson Daka, Choudhury, Skipp, Luke Thomas, Okoli, Will Alves, T. Wilson-Brown
Man City XI: De Bruyne, Stefan Ortega, Kovacic, Ake, Bernardo, Akanji, Haaland, Foden, Josko Gvardiol, Rico Lewis, Savinho
Subs: Carson, Walker, Gundogan, Grealish, Jérémy Doku, James McAtee, Divin Mubama, Nico O'Reilly, Jahmai Simpson-Pusey