Manchester City’ crush Leeds and regain the top
Manchester City’ regained top spot in the English Premier League after defeating Leeds United 4-0 at Island Road Stadium in the 35th round of the English Premier League on Saturday evening.
Rodrigo scored in the 13th minute, Nathan Ake 54 minutes later, Gabriel Jesus 78 minutes later, and Fernandinho 90 minutes later.
City climbed to the top of the standings with the result, increasing its total to 83 points,
while Leeds United’s tally remained unchanged at 34 points in 17th position.
In the seventh minute, City had the first opportunity of the game, with Aki climbing to a cross and heading wide of the goal.
After Foden fired a cross from a violation, Rodrygo scored with a header that reached the net in the 12th minute, City took the lead.
Indeed, The Manchester City’ vs Leeds United game was stopped from the 15th to the 20th minute owing to a head contact between
Laporte and Koch, before being restarted for a minute in the 23rd minute when both teams’
players cleared the field of paper missiles for the Leeds fans.
Leeds’ first attacking threat came in the 34th minute, when Firpo fired a powerful effort from the left side of the penalty area that sailed wide of the goal.
In the 38th minute, City came back with a ground shot from inside the penalty area from Jesus, which Miller easily handled.
In the 52nd minute, City almost added a second goal when Grealish hit an arc shot from
inside the penalty area that just missed the post.
After Diaz rose to a cross from a corner kick, delivering a ball header to Lucky next to him
inside the area, who then hit a direct ball into the net, City added the second goal in the 54th minute.
Watch the goals of the match between Manchester City Leeds 4-0
Manchester City vs Leeds United
Leeds’ first attacking threat came in the 34th minute
when Firpo fired a powerful effort from the left side of the penalty area that sailed wide of the goal.
With an arc shot from the edge of the penalty area that went just wide of the post in the
62nd minute, Gundogan attempted to add his name to the list of registered players.
In the 67th minute, City maintained their march towards the Leeds goal with a shot from
outside the penalty area by Zinchenko that went wide of the goal.
With Rafinia’s penetration from the right side, he reached the penalty area and sent a strong
ball that hit the City defense and narrowly crossed the crossbar in the 72nd minute, Leeds attempted to narrow the gap.
In the 78th minute, Jesus added a third goal for Leeds after receiving a spectacular interface
from Foden, to be unique with Millier, and hitting the ball into the net.
In the 87th minute, Cancelo was alone with Millier and sent a powerful ball from within the
box, which the Leeds goalkeeper well stopped.
While Gilhardt reacted to him on his own with Ederson, eluding the Brazilian goalkeeper
before hitting a ball that Cancelo cleared from the goal line.
Following that, Gundogan chased down a ball away from the Leeds defense inside the
penalty area and fired a powerful header just wide of the post.
Gilhardt then followed a cross into the box with a strong ground ball that Ederson starred in
the first minute of stoppage time.
In the third minute of stoppage time, City added a fourth goal with a rocket drive from
Fernandinho from the edge of the area that found the back of the net, giving City a clean
four-point victory.