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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 2 (setup 4, season 37)
Manchester City
v.
Darlington
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
2
Overall form:
Stefan ORTEGA718Hugo LLORIS
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
3
Overall form:
PEDRO Antonio PORRO Sauceda82Neco WILLIAMS
Layvin KURZAWA636Jan VERTONGHEN
Jordan VERETOUT4John BOSTOCK
FELIPE Augusto de Almeida Monteiro856Fábio Henrique Tavares, FABINHO
Shea CHARLES767Joël MATIP
Miguel Ángel ALMIRON Rejala77Pierre LEES-MELOU
PEDRO António Pereira GONÇALVES87Matt RITCHIE
Tammy ABRAHAM9Sasa KALAJDZIC
Curtis JONES106Mario Barwuah BALOTELLI
Danny INGS11Danny WELBECK
Manager
Demarai GRAY12Stevan JOVETIC
Scott CARSON13Frédéric GUILBERT
Liam DELAP6146Yasser LAROUCI
SÉRGIO GÓMEZ Martin15Dean PARRETT
Benjamin MENDY16Marcus MADDISON

Manchester City 2 Darlington 0
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 33,852, Stadium: Etihad Stadium, Referee: Mick RUSSELL 6½)
76 Jones, 90 IngsScorers
77 Kurzawa <=> DelapSubstitutions77 Matip <=> Larouci
Sendings off
Bookings60 Matip, 72 Kalajdzic
2Corners3
15Fouls11
6Offsides11
11Shots on5
9Shots off9
20Total shots14
6Shots saved5
55%Possession45%
Man of the match: PEDRO Antonio PORRO Sauceda
13FABINHO brought the ball away from PEDRO GONÇALVES and flicked a weak shot into the crowd.
15JONES ran onto a wonderful ball from PEDRO GONÇALVES but fired his effort wide of the righthand post.
16A cross from ALMIRON left PEDRO PORRO in plenty of space but he snapped at his shot.
17A fine ball from VERTONGHEN on the left found BALOTELLI who mishit his shot wide.
21A shot from PEDRO PORRO was smothered by LLORIS.
24RITCHIE made space on the left and touched the ball to VERTONGHEN who touched the ball over.
33RITCHIE headed over the bar.
37PEDRO GONÇALVES shot over.
37A header by WELBECK at the far post was comfortably collected by the Manchester City 'keeper.
42JONES played the ball to PEDRO GONÇALVES who headed it wide.
43A clever cross from ABRAHAM, was fired goalbound by PEDRO GONÇALVES only for the 'keeper to claw away.
 
54A corner found VERTONGHEN who forced an effort just wide.
59A shot from INGS seemed a certain goal but the 'keeper managed to punch the ball clear.
60MATIP cautioned by the referee for a bad foul.
65A great save prevented ABRAHAM from scoring an exceptional goal.
68ORTEGA dived to his left to stop a lovely drive from Darlington's LEES-MELOU.
70The Manchester City 'keeper saved a beautiful shot from VERTONGHEN.
72KALAJDZIC booked for gamesmanship.
76GOAL!! A neat one-two left JONES clear and he made no mistake by instinctively lobbing the ball beyond the oncoming 'keeper. (1-0 Manchester City)
89A fine run was ended by a good save by the advancing 'keeper.
90GOAL!! . (2-0 Manchester City)
90+1A free-kick from ALMIRON raced inches wide.