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Match report
English Footie
Championship: Round 28 (setup 1, season 27)
Manchester City
v.
Coventry City
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
17
Overall form:
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Marco AMELIA71Igor AKINFEEV
Formation:
3-4-1-2
League position:
2
Overall form:
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Ezequiel Matias SCHELOTTO2Kostas MANOLAS
Manuel PASQUAL3Angelo OGBONNA
Francesco LODI74Óscar DE MARCOS Arana
Marco CAPUANO75Ronaldo Aparecido Rodrigues, NALDO
Rodrigo ELY6Roberto Maximiliano PEREYRA
GABRIEL Moisés Antunes da SILVA7Carlos Alberto VELA Garrido
Nicola SANSONE88BORJA Valero Iglesias
Alessandro MATRI79RAFFAEL Caetano de Araújo
Giampaolo PAZZINI107Max KRUSE
Fabio QUAGLIARELLA611Dmitri KOMBAROV
ManagerRikki Faulkner
Francesco PISANO128Mateo KOVACIC
Lance CRONIN13Yuri LODYGIN
Andrea COSSÙ14Lasse SCHØNE
Antonio FLORO FLORES15MARCOS ALONSO Mendoza
Luca CRECCO616Iñaki WILLIAMS Arthuer

Manchester City 1 Coventry City 2
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 40,814, Stadium: Etihad Stadium, Referee: Phil CROSSLEY 6½)
48 MatriScorers25 Naldo, 82 Raffael
83 Pasqual <=> CreccoSubstitutions66 De Marcos <=> Kovacic
Sendings off
Bookings
5Corners7
5Fouls20
2Offsides5
1Shots on8
7Shots off5
8Total shots13
0Shots saved6
39%Possession61%
Man of the match: BORJA Valero Iglesias
4KRUSE brought the ball away from PAZZINI and rifled a weak shot over.
6Uncertainty in the Coventry City defence enabled MATRI to fire an effort wide.
9A shot from RAFFAEL was smothered by the Manchester City 'keeper.
13A cross from LODI left SANSONE in lots of space but he snapped at his shot.
21A header by OGBONNA at the far post was comfortably collected by AMELIA.
25GOAL!! A shot from NALDO raced through a crowd of players and bounced past the unsighted 'keeper. (1-0 Coventry City)
33The 'keeper was able to palm clear a tame header from KOMBAROV.
40AMELIA was able to palm clear a wicked shot.
42RAFFAEL shot wide.
43SANSONE was put clear by PASQUAL and he dummied AKINFEEV but struck his shot just beyond the far post.
 
48GOAL!! An outswinging corner nodded out by MANOLAS was hit into the back of the net by MATRI. (1-1)
51A accurate pass fell to MATRI and his right foot shot floated narrowly over.
59PAZZINI beat four Coventry City players and slammed a shot wide.
63KRUSE drilled a right foot shot wide from twenty yards out.
65A tame shot from KRUSE rolled agonisingly wide.
68KOMBAROV made space on the left and pulled the ball to RAFFAEL who touched the ball wide.
76A clever cross from VELA, was placed goalbound by PEREYRA only for the 'keeper to palm clear.
81SANSONE kicked the ball wide from just outside the area.
82GOAL!! A refined set-piece enabled RAFFAEL to slip the ball into the back of the net. (2-1 Coventry City)
87VELA worked the ball to PEREYRA, KRUSE controlled his cross and booted the ball within easy reach of the Manchester City 'keeper.
90+1PAZZINI rattled an easy chance past the far post.