This Thursday, Manchester City received Tottenham Hotspur for the pending game of the seventh date of the Premier League and the team led by Pep Guardiola had a great comeback that began with Julián Álvarez, who got the discount and his goal was key to the final victory by 4-2, which left him second in the table, five units behind Arsenal, who has one game less as he owes his duel with Everton for the same day.
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The Red Devils fell 1-0, but in a flurry they took the 2-1 victory thanks to goals from Fernandes and Rashford. Lisandro Martínez and Garnacho entered the complement. Julián Álvarez was a substitute, but did not add minutes
The London team went to halftime with a 2-0 victory thanks to goals from Dejan Kulusevski and Emerson. But at the dawn of the complement the local team went out to look to turn the result around and that goal was on track after 6 minutes when Riyad Mahrez sent a pumped cross from the right, Ilkay Gündogan failed to connect, goalkeeper Hugo Lloris cleared and La Araña grabbed the rebound to put his team on the run.
The former River Plate striker scored at least one goal in all the games he started at the Etihad Stadium and this was his eighth shout of the season, totaling five competitions for his club.
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The momentum generated by the conversion of the world champion in Qatar led his team to get within shot of the tie that came two minutes later through Erling Haaland, who appeared to head the equalizer and reached 22 goals this year and remains at the top of the scoring table.
Julián Álvarez celebrates his goal that led City’s comeback (Reuters / Lee Smith)
At 18 minutes into the plugin, Riyad Mahrez confirmed that he was the figure of the match and scored the third for Los Ciudadanos. In the epilogue the Algerian converted the second and decorated the final result.
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Kulusevski and Emerson put Spurs ahead by finishing the initial part, but Julian Álvarez, Haaland and Mahrez twice turned the result around starting the second half
This was Manchester City’s 13th victory in the current Premier League and allowed them to maintain their expectation for another title at the local level. He is the current league champion and is looking for his fifth conquest in the last five years.
On the other hand, at Tottenham Cristian Romero started, who at minute 29 reached a great cross against Jack Grealish. Cuti had a good first half and in the second, in tune with his team, he could not maintain that level.
This match was valid for date seven of the Premier League, which at the time was suspended due to the death of Queen Elizabeth II. With a calendar compressed by the Qatar 2022 World Cup, the matches of that day were accommodating and that is why the Arsenal match is still missing, which retains the vanguard with 47 units and brings 5 to City.
On the next date, Manchester City will host Wolverhampton and the duel will take place on Sunday at 11 a.m. in Argentina. While Tottenham will close the activity on their visit to Fulham, on Monday from 5:00 p.m.
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