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Match report
English Footie
Premier League: Round 26 (setup 4, season 34)
Manchester City
v.
Gillingham
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
9
Overall form:
Home form:
Stefan ORTEGA716Bernd LENO
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
7
Overall form:
Home form:
Nicolás Hernán OTAMENDI72Matthew LOWTON
Marcos Javier ACUÑA536MARCELO Vieira da Silva Junior
Ilkay GÜNDOGAN84Idrissa Gana GUEYE
Fernando Luiz Roza, FERNANDINHO56Diego Roberto GODÍN Leal
Philippe SANDLER66Marc GUEHI
Riyad MAHREZ77Theo WALCOTT
Lorenzo INSIGNE88Henrikh MKHITARYAN
Tammy ABRAHAM9Adam IDAH
Jordan VERETOUT106Daniel Ceballos Fernández, DANI CEBALLOS
Demarai GRAY11Gareth BALE
Manager
PEDRO António Pereira GONÇALVES12Ian MAATSEN
Francisco Román Alarcón Suárez, ISCO13Nick POPE
Danny INGS14Anthony GORDON
FÉLIX Alexandre Andrade Sanches CORREIA15Tom DAVIES
Fabian DELPH16Rhian BREWSTER

Manchester City 4 Gillingham 2
(Half-time: 4-2, Attendance: 34,021, Stadium: Etihad Stadium, Referee: Graham SALISBURY 7½)
10 Insigne, 18 Insigne, 28 Acuña, 43 FernandinhoScorers7 Mkhitaryan, 15 Mkhitaryan
60 Acuña <=> IscoSubstitutions
Sendings off
Bookings
9Corners3
3Fouls5
8Offsides6
6Shots on7
8Shots off6
14Total shots13
2Shots saved5
57%Possession43%
Man of the match: Ilkay GÜNDOGAN
4OTAMENDI clipped the ball through a ruck of players but the Gillingham 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right.
7GOAL!! After being forced wide MKHITARYAN was able to drive the ball in from the narrowest of angles. (1-0 Gillingham)
9GUEYE worked the ball to DANI CEBALLOS, MKHITARYAN latched onto his cross and booted the ball within easy reach of the Manchester City 'keeper.
10GOAL!! A glorious outswinging corner was headed in at the far post by INSIGNE. (1-1)
12A mix up in the Gillingham defence enabled INSIGNE to hit an effort just beyond the far post.
15GOAL!! BALE drove a wicked shot against the crossbar with MKHITARYAN knocking in the rebound. (2-1 Gillingham)
18GOAL!! A long clearance by the Manchester City 'keeper beat the Gillingham defence and INSIGNE blasted the ball beyond the oncoming Gillingham 'keeper. (2-2)
19A deadly shot from IDAH was clawed past the post by the 'keeper.
28GOAL!! A Manchester City counter-attack allowed GÜNDOGAN to setup ACUÑA with a simple goal. (3-2 Manchester City)
31A accurate pass fell to GÜNDOGAN and his right foot shot went narrowly over.
43GOAL!! After some good play on the right FERNANDINHO came inside and drove the ball into the back of the net. (4-2 Manchester City)
44IDAH was put clear by BALE and he raced past ORTEGA but thrust his shot just beyond the far post.
45+1An inswinging corner was flicked into the arms of the Manchester City 'keeper by IDAH.
 
46WALCOTT beat four Manchester City players and fired a great chance over the bar.
50A penalty box scramble resulted in IDAH tapping the ball wide.
52INSIGNE beat LOWTON but slammed the ball into the arms of the 'keeper.
65IDAH headed over the bar.
66A poor strike from GUEHI trickled agonisingly wide.
77A good effort from ABRAHAM scraped the outside of the lefthand post.
86ORTEGA did well to hold onto a powerful strike from MKHITARYAN.
87A cross from MAHREZ left ABRAHAM in lots of space but he fluffed his shot.
90+1The hapless ORTEGA was all agog as a backpass from GÜNDOGAN dropped just wide.