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1 year

I took a look at Haaland’s City goals and what he’s doing to score so many. A few things stood out: - A repeated movement to create space - His favourite area for ‘tap ins’ - An approach Just Fontaine may not have approved of

How Erling Haaland Scores His Goals

The spaces he occupies and the movements he makes

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Fabrizio Romano

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10 months

Jadon Sancho statement after Erik ten Hag’s quotes 🚨🔴⤵️ #MUFC

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2 trophies in the last decade

Football Daily

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2 years

🗣 "One trophy minimum a season is what we need to be achieving." Trent Alexander-Arnold feels with the squad and manager Liverpool have not winning a trophy every season is a "massive disappointment"

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Here’s a mad stat. Mo Salah is having an incredible season. He’s clear by 5 goals at the top of the Premier League scoring charts. He’s scored a goal every 113 minutes this season. Sergio Aguero scored a goal every 108 minutes in the Premier League. Across a whole decade.

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2 years

Don’t feel too down for Nunez. Scored the winner in the World Cup final 2 weeks ago

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3 years

David Silva signed for Manchester City and in his first season the club won the FA Cup, their first major trophy in 35 years. David Silva signed for Real Sociedad and in his first season the club has won the Copa Del Rey, their first major trophy in 34 years. David Silva olé

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2 years

How City could use Haaland 1/

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2 years

Sane (age 21), Jesus (19) and Sterling (22) run West Ham ragged in Feb 2017. The first glimpse of City’s long term future? 5yrs later and they’re all gone. How a club, and a player, progresses is rarely linear in football and often unpredictable

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7 months

The only Englishman to have ever started in and won the FA Cup final, the European Cup Final, The UEFA Super Cup Final and the FIFA Club World Cup Final in the same year. Olé

Jack Grealish

@JackGrealish

7 months

Champions of the World 🩵 What a club 🩵🩵🩵🩵🩵 @ManCity

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6 months

Phil Foden’s 70th goal for City. Moves one ahead of Niall Quinn (69). He’s now two behind Edin Dzeko (72) and three behind Carlos Tevez (73). Ridiculously, he’s also one behind Erling Haaland (71)

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8 months

What an era. Premier League top scorers: ‘17/18 City (106) ‘18/19 City (95) ‘19/20 City (102) ‘20/21 City (83) ‘21/22 City (99) ‘22/23 City (94)

Jamie Carragher

@Carra23

8 months

Salah, Firmino, Mane! Best front three we’ve seen in the PL 🤔

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3 years

Cancelo this, Trent that but at very top level football Kyle Walker is a defensive monster. Mbappe and Neymar frightened to death of him

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10 months

Oscar Bobb might have earned himself a £40m move to Chelsea with that 5 minutes

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1 year

The goal that won the treble. The value of carrying the ball 1/

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1 year

Ricoball. What a player

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6 months

Since Phil Foden graduated from City’s academy, it has continued to produce a number of top class talents from the local area. Here’s a focus on a few of those lads, all born or brought up in Greater Manchester 1/

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2 years

On Dec 1st City beat Villa without Walker, Stones, Laporte, Gundogan, De Bruyne and Torres (all injured/covid). Foden and Grealish were only fit for the bench after both missed West Ham injured. Virgil probably won’t remember as we weren’t cry arsing all over the press about it

Mirror Football

@MirrorFootball

2 years

Virgil van Dijk tells Man City they've been lucky this season in Liverpool warning | @MullockSMirror

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2 years

Premier League top scorers each season since 2011/12: ‘11/12 City (93) ‘12/13 United (86) ‘13/14 City (102) ‘14/15 City (83) ‘15/16 City (71) ‘16/17 Spurs (86) ‘17/18 City (106) ‘18/19 City (95) ‘19/20 City (102) ‘20/21 City (83) ‘20/21 City (99)

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3 years

Get this man to Chelsea’s hotel

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3 years

Guardiola ‘They play 5-3-2. When you are in the second part of the build up, the 3 cannot control the width of the pitch’. How Pep took United apart 1/

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How Pep exposed United’s back 4 by picking holes in their press 1/

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3 months

‘Statman’ thinks only Sterling and Aguero have scored more than 100 goals for City. Christ

Statman Dave

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3 months

Kevin De Bruyne has scored 100 goals for Manchester City. Only Sergio Aguero (260) & Raheem Sterling (131) have managed more. Centurion. 👑👑👑

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6 months

March. Make or break.

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1 year

A big reason why City can play the way they do is what Ederson can do with the ball. No other goalkeeper can routinely play out like this.

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3 years

It took me 26 years to see City win a trophy. It’s taken 2 days for my daughter 😏😅 #mcfc #MCITOT

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6 months

That is unbelievable from De Bruyne. The best player this league has ever seen

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Premier League

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3 years

Man City have won 32 of their 40 #PL matches in 2021 (D2 L6) 🏆 No club has won more matches in a single calendar year in the competition's history! #MCIWOL

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4 months

Phil Foden was always destined to be one of the world’s best players. It’s his natural trajectory 1/

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2 years

Haaland has 4 goals by now

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2 years

Gundogan leaving, on top of Fernandinho going, creates an interesting dynamic. Both fantastic servants. Leaves us with Rodri, De Bruyne and Bernardo as our regulars in midfield 1/

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1 year

Express Sport

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1 year

Man Utd boss Erik ten Hag ‘losing patience with Jadon Sancho’ as six stars set to be sold #MUFC

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6 months

Cole Palmer backed himself as being ready. Good on him. That’s football. City got the cash. Bobb got his opportunity. No point in getting angry about anything there

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1 year

That claim from Ederson will go down in fuckin history

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6 months

Have to feel for Arsenal, Saliba’s injury killing them again

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2 years

Rico Lewis’ performances are on a ridiculous trajectory. To be playing an inverted full back role in a match of that intensity and playing it so intelligently, so confidently, so well. Wow. Turned 18 last month

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2 years

Julian Alvarez. Aggression, intensity and chaos 1/

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3 years

De Bruyne now 1 assist short of the Euros all time record: Poborsky 14 apps, 6 assists Ronaldo 21 apps, 6 assists De Bruyne 7 apps, 5 assists

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143 goals now for City this season. Most goals scored in a top flight season in English football history: City 169 goals ‘18/19 City 156 ‘13/14 City 149 ‘19/20 City 151 ‘22/23 City 150 ‘21/22 L’pool 147 ‘21/22 City 143 ‘23/24* City 143 ‘17/18 United 143 ‘56/57 The best ever.

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1 year

Bernardo

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The Footballer of the Year. At 23, Phil Foden joins Bobby Moore and Alan Shearer as the youngest Englishmen to ever win the award. Moore won it in 1964 aged 23 and Shearer at the same age in 1994.

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Congratulations to @PhilFoden - the 2024 Footballer of the Year. 👏👏👏 The Manchester City and England star polled 42 per cent of the vote from the Football Writers' Association's almost 900 members, ahead of Arsenal's Declan Rice and @mancity team-mate Rodri. Full story ⬇️

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They don’t make ‘em like him anymore

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1 year

Sergio Aguero vs Chelsea 13/14

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3 years

Fernandinho or Rodri might have made a difference last night but there was a fundamental issue they wouldn’t have solved 1/

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3 years

How Pep changed it to combat Alexander Arnold whilst breathing life into City’s attack 1/

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4 years

Bernardo and Gundogan as 8s with De Bruyne ahead of them. A quick thread on creativity 1/

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6 months

That added ‘for me’ He knows

GOAL

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John Terry's loyalty to Frank Lampard is unmatched 💙

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1 year

Come on Newcastle. This boy wants to start a football match

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2 years

We’re starting to see Grealish do things that we haven’t seen from him previously in a City shirt this last couple of weeks. He’s roaming, he’s picking the ball up in more space and he’s doing more damage. It feels like he’s realising he can play with more freedom

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9 months

Respect Ederson. It’s not as easy as it looks

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2 years

It’s a mystery how families choose City over United isn’t it Gary. Here’s your nephew

City Report

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Gary Neville: "You look at @PhilFoden and you think ‘how have @ManUtd not got him as a young player?'"

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2 years

Beyond parody

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2 years

When you drop your dm to centre back

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2 years

Rico Lewis’ game is full of little nuances that you don’t expect to see from a kid so young. Making time for Laporte here by blocking off Keita. Little bits like this, allied to his positioning and intelligence in a tricky role, makes you think you’re watching a veteran

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6 months

Shearer at the end here. His team loses in the last minute but he can’t help but instantly recognise ‘how good’s that?’

Shaun Wright-Phillips

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6 months

⚫️ Newcastle 2-3 Man City 🔵 Behind the scenes at @premierleague yesterday with @alanshearer #bts

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Big players make a difference in big matches

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2 years

The tv cameras didn’t capture this the other night but that’s Ruben Dias just after he’d removed the ball from Raya’s hands. It looked like the ‘keeper had decided he was going to delay the take but Dias went and sorted it out for Mahrez. Our leader

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#NewProfilePic

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Lampard only bettered the 22 goals Foden has scored so far this season once in his career, 27 in 2009/10. 10 of those 27 were penalties.

Football Tweet ⚽

@Football__Tweet

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🎙️ Paul Scholes: “Look, Phil Foden is a better footballer than Frank Lampard ever was but Frank was the best at scoring goals and winning leagues for his club and this season, Foden is starting to do that.”

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The role Ake has been playing for us really plays to his strengths - winning duels, one v ones against wingers, dealing with transitions with his pace and knowing when to press in wide areas. Basically all of Laporte’s weak points. Worrying.

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1 year

Guardiola becomes the first manager to reach 10 Champions League semi finals. This is his 14th season in management.

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2 years

This is the shape Guardiola turned to yesterday to win the match. A back 3 with Rodri holding midfield, facilitating a 5 man forward line. Bernardo interchanging with Stones and dropping in wherever he was required. Bernardo, Rodri and De Bruyne’s positional nous was exceptional

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No City this weekend. So, here’s Aguero and Tevez destroying Norwich in the run-in in 2012. Well worth a few minutes of your time. Comp Credit: @prime_sergioo

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3 years

Paul Tierney eh

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2 months

Foden’s contributions to the two goals tonight. Nothing on the stats sheet but absolutely huge.

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6 months

Bit of a broken record now but Bobb just feels like a first team player. His transition has been so smooth. Just looks right.

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8 months

Wonder when we’ll next get a penalty against United? We’ve not had a pen in a Manchester derby since February 2010. 37 derbies and 7 United penalties since. They’ve barely had the ball in our box in a lot of them as well.

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2 years

We got 10 minutes of Foden in midfield yesterday. With City already ahead, Palace brought Mateta and Olise on and shifted to a back 4. Foden dropped into midfield in possession with Alvarez going wide left 1/

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2 years

How Pep and City will infuriate you in the next few weeks 😉 1/

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6 months

One of these men has the chance to write themselves into legend this week. Score a goal at Spurs ground and your name will be etched into the annals of history.

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1 year

Guardiola post Champions League elimination vs Lyon in 2020: ‘We made mistakes in both boxes at key moments and that is why we are out’

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9 months

This substitution on Saturday highlighted a concern I have for the team this season. 1/

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3 months

Guardiola has 6 defenders he’s been happy to regularly start this season, plus Rico Lewis. But the two that aren’t training impact City’s tactical flexibility. It creates a problem 1/

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2 years

Phil Foden Goal contributions and contributions to goals 1/

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Claudio Echeverri El Diablito - The Little Devil Last month’s hat-trick vs Brazil in the under 17s World Cup

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1 year

This man was fuckin majestic tonight. Regal

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3 months

Guardiola also 58% of the trophies on offer at Barcelona during his tenure and 55% of those on offer at Bayern. It’s why he is the greatest to ever do it.

Miguel Delaney

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3 months

If City win the double, they will sustain a record of winning 50% of all major trophies in the seven years since Guardiola's first league title. No English team in history has ever sustained that concentration of success so long (Liverpool won 12 of 28 between 1979 and 1986)

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5 months

The cavalry have arrived now so the burden won’t be so great. But these 2 boys have picked up the slack this season. Foden - 20 goal contributions Alvarez - 25 goal contributions

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City Xtra

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11 months

Bernardo Silva has reached an agreement with #ManCity to extend his contract by a further two years, with the news set to be formalised soon, according to @AlexisBernard10 .

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Phil Foden, Cole Palmer, Rico Lewis, Taylor Harwood-Bellis and James McAtee. All born within 10 miles of the Etihad. All at City since Primary School age. Would be a brave man who bets against any of them winning England caps. And it’s top.

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Pep dealing with the media this week 💙

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💙

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2 years

VAR determined to make a title race of it this weekend it seems

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2 years

The balance between control and risk. Attacking a back 5. Gamestate. 1/

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It’s Rodri. At Barcelona it was Busquets. It’s the advantage Guardiola has being Cruyff’s 6. No one knows that role for that type of football better. Rodri is not quick, he has no business topping the out of possession stats. But he does because of his coaching.

Let Me Talk

@LMTPod

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🤔 Which player has Guardiola improved the most at City? @SamLee makes a case for Zinchenko, but there are plenty more on the full episode That, plus the review of the derby, shows with Nedum Onuoha and Izzy Christiansen, are available at… 👉👉👉

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Haaland is in there somewhere at 2014 League Cup Final. Now he orchestrates it.

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8 months

He scored 28 in 45 for BRAZIL. Haaland has scored 27 in 29 for NORWAY.

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3 months

It was never gonna be pretty

Squawka

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Rodri 7-0 Rice

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2 years

Kelvin Phillips. An important signing 1/

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High 8s, wide wingers, a False 9 and uncomfortable centre backs. A textbook ‘21/22 City goal 1/

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3 years

What was going on here

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1 year

Rico Lewis 1/

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2017/18. All timer midfielders at every turn

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1 year

One of the biggest questions going into next season for City, and others, is whether the 3-2-5 shape in possession forms a solid enough base to dispense of a ‘controller’ 1/