Sam Lee
@SamLee

Manchester City correspondent for @TheAthleticFC. Also @LMTpod

 Manchester, England
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Joined April 2009
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Haaland can start against Villa, Maresca says
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Frankly, Cherki was taking the piss. On nights like these it's normally a routine win and move on, but there was a lot of flair and entertainment, largely from Cherki but of course Foden and Allan, too. nytimes.com/athletic/7704351…

Man City 5 AEK 1: Phil Foden or Rayan Cherki – who was best in resounding win?

City put in a brilliant performance to score five against AEK - here are the talking points.

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Foden hat-trick!
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4-1 Foden, another lovely goal with another fine assist by Lewis
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Cherki 3-1 lovely goal (of course)
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2-1!
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Pilios bursts forward on the left into a canyon in the City defence to pull one back
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Lovely goal by Foden 2-0
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Anderson puts in the rebound after Enzo F hits the bar with a free kick
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1-0 City
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Maresca says Haaland is better, Semenyo out for eight weeks. On Haaland: “He can be available, we will see. He was quite good yesterday, better. We will see today. “The rest are more or less all ok, the only one that will be out for probably eight weeks is Antoine.”
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A bit more from Maresca on injuries: "Mateo said he was OK, Matheus said he was OK, Erling also said he was OK. Nico has the problem with his back from before Coventry... the only one we have to wait a little bit to see is Antoine."
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Maresca on Haaland: "We will see. Unfortunately in 10 minuytes we had 4-5 players, Matheus, Kova, Nico, Erling, Antoine... they are inside now but I don't know, I don't have any news at the moment."
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Haaland with a heavy limp as he goes off at full-time. He got a bang on the foot and was likely to be rested on Tuesday, so City will be hoping he’ll be back for Villa next Saturday. Semenyo limping too as he goes off
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Haaland is really struggling after that shot was blocked, looks like a bang on the foot. One minute of the TWELVE to go and CIty have a free kick after excellent work from Bouaddi. Has been a mad period of injury time
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Ndiaye has been really good today but also very wasteful at some key moments
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The ref added on four minutes and the Premier League pumped in an extra eight
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12 minutes added on, which is absolutely mental
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3-2!
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Penalty given
Sam Lee
@SamLee
Oct 17
Likely to be an Ipswich pen on VAR review
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