Sentences with phrase «city dominated possession»

City dominated possession and created numerous opportunities, but as has been their problem all season, failed to find the back of the net to leave their top - eight prospects now in doubt.

The League One leaders were sitting deep and suffocating attack after attack as City dominated possession without making the home goalkeeper work too hard, though on the half - hour mark, the Blues should have gone ahead.

Orlando City dominated possession to close the half and generated several chances, eventually finding a breakthrough thanks to a penalty kick in the 42nd minute.

Man City dominated possession 431 - 136 in that time but only managed 8 shots, 4 of which were blocked, 4 open shots in the 18 yard box, but 2 of those were headers by Otamendi, which left two shots in the box by the forwards (Jesus and Sane) and zero big chances created.

And the game quickly settled into the usual pattern when the two face off with City dominating possession and United happy to get plenty of men behind the ball.

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No other top 6 team would have this guy as a starter... He's ok on the bench but at this moment I would go kolosinac and wilshere in midfield with ozil miki laca and pea as attacking force... Otherwise they will overrun the midfield and dominate possession... But as with the imperishable mr fox I have no interest in an ersatz victory based on man city underperforming and giving the fossil an excuse to «respect his contract»

In their last two games City have come out of the blocks fast, dominated possession and played the other team off the park in comfortable wins oh wait.

Spain picked up a comfortable 2 - 0 win, while dominating a large chunk of the possession, and Monreal set - up Man City's Nolito to close the game off at 2 - 0.

An injury to Mohamed Salah gave them the chance to bring on an extra midfielder in Giorginio Wijnaldum, but City were utterly dominating possession and looking much better than in the first half.

From there it seemed City would assert full control as they dominated possession but they struggled to create clear - cut chances.

This can not be underestimated, as City's defensive success this season relies heavily on being able to dominate possession and deny the opposition structured attacks through aggressive pressing, tilting the pitch towards the goal they're attacking.

Manchester City have dominated games in terms of passing this season, averaging 59.7 % possession and completing 86 % of their 3228 passes, and are the top goalscorers this season with 14 goals.

It gave City an additional body in midfield and in both matches they dominated possession and controlled the tempo.

Guardiola also has the pace of Leroy Sane and Raheem Sterling to call upon but I think the match winners could come from the creativity of Kevin De Bruyne and David Silva as City will dominate both possession and territory in this one.

Man City will want to dominate possession as they visit the champions and Conte might well allow them to have the ball and soak up the pressure.

The home side were limited to just 38 per cent possession, with City completely dominating the game.