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Commentary
A corner fell to RIEDEWALD who forced an effort over the bar.
18¹A useful ball from GIMÉNEZ on the right fell to JELAVIC who sliced his shot wide.
23¹SONG chipped the ball to SANÉ who nodded it just beyond the near post.
29¹SONG stroked an easy chance past the righthand post.
30¹SAGNA headed wide.
32¹HAMSÍK receives a yellow card for a poor challenge.
40¹VUCINIC beat SUSO and drove the ball to KOLAROV who fumbled his shot wide.
41¹The Manchester City 'keeper did well to hold onto a powerful strike from JELAVIC.
43¹A right foot shot from VUCINIC was saved by CORONA.
CASTRO booked for arguing with the referee.
GOAL!! A wonderful bit of skill enabled NAVAS to waltz through the Cruz Azul defence and score. (1-0 Manchester City)
14²A pin-point pass fell to SANÉ and his right foot shot floated narrowly over.
15²NAVAS charged through the Cruz Azul defence but shot straight at CORONA.
16²SAGNA brought the ball away from SUSO and flicked a poor shot wide.
19²A great effort from SANÉ scraped the top of the crossbar.
21²A shot from SONG seemed a certain goal but CORONA managed to fist the ball clear.
23²VUCINIC ran onto a great ball from NAVAS but blasted his effort wide of the goal.
26²The hapless Cruz Azul 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from SUSO dropped just wide.
29²VUCINIC made space on the left and knocked the ball to SANÉ who fired the ball wide.
31²SAGNA beat four Cruz Azul players and stroked an effort over.
34²A tame strike from SANÉ bounced agonisingly wide.
43²Uncertainty in the Cruz Azul defence enabled SANÉ to hit an effort wide.
44²SANÉ scuffed a simple chance.
47²A penalty box meleé resulted in JELAVIC driving a low shot over.

 
Manchester City
 
League position: 7
Home league form: WXLL
Overall league form: WWWLXWLX
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Claudio BRAVO1José CORONA(c)
Bacary SAGNA2JOÃO Pedro PEREIRA
Aleksandar KOLAROV3Jairo RIEDEWALD
Yaya TOURÉ4Marek HAMSÍK
Eliaquim MANGALA5Martin JIRÁNEK
Holger BADSTUBER6Alejandro CASTRO
Jesús NAVAS7Gerardo TORRADO
Leroy SANÉ8SUSO
(p)Alexandre SONG9Nikica JELAVIC(p)
(c,f)Maximiliano RODRÍGUEZ10Philipp OCHS(f)
Mirko VUCINIC11Christian GIMÉNEZ
Manager
Gaël CLICHY  12  Álvaro PEREIRA
Stefanos KAPINO  13  Óscar DE MARCOS
Efe AMBROSE  14  Hideki ISHIGE
Lucas OCAMPOS15  Marouane FELLAINI
Patrick HERRMANN  16  Gorka IRAIZOZ
 
Cruz Azul
 
League position: 19
Away league form: WXLL
Overall league form: WXXLLLLO
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Manchester City 1 Cruz Azul 0
(Half-time: 0-0, Attendance: 47,470, Stadium: Etihad Stadium, Referee: Pieter Vink 7½)

Navas 7²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
TouréóOcampos 33² 
  
 Hamsík 32¹, Castro 6²
56
510
00
41
143
184
21
53%47%
Man of the match: José Corona