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Match report
English Footie
League 1: Round 34 (setup 1, season 31)
Manchester City
v.
Grimsby Town
Formation:
4-4-2
League position:
23
Overall form:
Home form:
Matz SELS16Julian SPERONI
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
16
Overall form:
Home form:
Jeremy TOLJAN72Victor MOSES
BERNARDO Fernandes da Silva Junior3Aly CISSOKHO
Mauricio Anibal ISLA747Jérémy CLÉMENT
Willy BOLY5James CHESTER
Rodrigo ELY66Daniele DESSENA
Aaron LENNON77Lasse VIGEN Christensen
GABRIEL Moisés Antunes da SILVA78Christian GENTNER
Giovanni Pablo SIMEONE69Frederico Chaves Guedes, FRED
Ezequiel BARCO107Papakouli DIOP
Glenn MURRAY611Johnny RUSSELL
Alex LakerManager
Giampaolo PAZZINI12Dan BURN
António Alberto Bastos Pimparel, BETO13John ALVBÅGE
Simone Andrea GANZ14Siem DE JONG
Sebastian LARSSON15Alan HUTTON
Jonathan DOUGLAS16Craig FORSYTH

Manchester City 0 Grimsby Town 3
(Half-time: 0-1, Attendance: 31,462, Stadium: Etihad Stadium, Referee: Uriah RENNIE 7½)
Scorers34 Vigen, 68 Gentner, 71 Fred
Substitutions55 Chester <=> Forsyth
16 SimeoneSendings off
60 ElyBookings35 Gentner
4Corners12
14Fouls5
12Offsides3
3Shots on9
4Shots off11
7Total shots20
2Shots saved6
37%Possession63%
Man of the match: BERNARDO Fernandes da Silva Junior
1An exceptional shot from SIMEONE was dealt with by a good parry from the Grimsby Town 'keeper.
4BERNARDO fired a left foot shot over the bar from close range.
9SELS did well to hold onto a wicked shot from GENTNER.
10ISLA headed inches wide.
13A corner was collected by VIGEN who fired an effort just wide.
16SIMEONE red carded for a professional foul on RUSSELL.
18A pin-point pass found DIOP and his deadly effort flew narrowly wide.
21GENTNER touched the ball through a ruck of players but the 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
22CLÉMENT beat LENNON and flicked the ball to DESSENA who fired his shot wide.
25The Manchester City 'keeper managed to block a wicked shot.
25A penalty box scramble resulted in GENTNER cracking a low shot wide.
30A shot from GENTNER seemed a certain goal but the 'keeper managed to punch the ball clear.
34GOAL!! A long ball from RUSSELL down the middle was collected by the lurking VIGEN who whacked a deadly shot into the net. (1-0 Grimsby Town)
35A clinical foul gets GENTNER a yellow card.
 
53CHESTER shot over.
55CLÉMENT brought the ball away from LENNON and poked a poor shot over the bar.
60The ref cautions ELY for an off-the-ball incident against FRED.
66SELS was able to block a weak header from GENTNER.
68GOAL!! An imaginative CLÉMENT played a delightful ball down the right to GENTNER who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (2-0 Grimsby Town)
71GOAL!! The creative DESSENA neatly touched on a cross for FRED to hammer the ball in. (3-0 Grimsby Town)
75MURRAY beat two Grimsby Town players and slammed a golden opportunity inches over.
84CISSOKHO ran onto a delightful ball from DIOP but dragged his shot wide of the lefthand post.