Alvarez objective offers scientific Man City 1-0 win over Newcastle

AFP

An excellent strike from midfielder Julian Alvarez gave Manchester City a 1-0 win over Newcastle United of their first dwelling sport of the brand new Premier League season, capping off a night of celebration of final season’s treble on the Etihad Stadium.

The Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup trophies have been all displayed on the pitch earlier than kickoff, after which City comprehensively outplayed Eddie Howe’s Newcastle, whose personal title aspirations have been dealt an early season setback.

Pep Guardiola picked Phil Foden to take the place of the injured Kevin De Bruyne, and the 23-year-old England worldwide responded with a man-of-the-match efficiency as he shouldered the burden of making probabilities for the champions.

After a gap half-hour by which the house aspect dominated possession, Alvarez broke the impasse within the thirty first minute when Foden picked him out on the sting of the field, and the Argentine whipped a robust shot throughout Nick Pope and into the online.

Newcastle upped the tempo within the second half nevertheless it was City who had the higher probabilities, although striker Erling Haaland appeared out of kinds as he failed to attain regardless of a lot of alternatives created for him by Foden.

The guests lastly managed to start out exerting some strain within the final quarter-hour, however regardless of some higher attacking play they nonetheless struggled to create pictures on objective.

Substitute Callum Wilson wasted an excellent counter-attack when he picked Rodri’s pocket in midfield however he couldn’t style an angle for a run on objective, and when the shot ultimately got here for Harvey Barnes, it did little to bother Ederson.

City nearly grabbed a second when Foden flashed a late shot throughout objective as his aspect held on for again to again league wins to start out their season and stretch their file to 17 dwelling victories in all competitions.

“I enjoy playing in there, hopefully in the future I can pick up more games there and show people what I can do,” Foden mentioned of his playmaker function in a TV interview.

“The manager spoke to me a few times, he said to remain patient, ‘You always train very good and work hard and you’ll get your opportunities in the future’, and now I’m living up to them, I’m more than happy.”

Newcastle coach Eddie Howe had few complaints after seeing his aspect outplayed over the 90 minutes.

“It was a tough game as we knew it would be. They’re an elite team. We tried our best to execute our plan, we did better in the second half, but when the moments came we weren’t clinical enough,” he instructed TNT.