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Commentary
7¹HAALAND was put clear by RODRI and he dummied the Aston Villa 'keeper but thrust his shot over.
17¹VINÍCIUS JÚNIOR waltzed round RABIOT and rattled a poor shot past the post.
23¹VINÍCIUS JÚNIOR nodded the ball wide from the edge of the box.
28¹The referee cautions SAKA.
31¹MANÉ scuffed an easy chance.
38¹GOAL!! A twenty yard free-kick was cleverly fired into the net by MESSI. (1-0 Manchester City)
39¹The ref books DE BRUYNE for an off-the-ball incident against ZANIOLO.
41¹A corner was collected by HAALAND who fired the ball just beyond the near post.
43¹A clever pass from MANÉ was fired goalbound by ZANIOLO only for DONNARUMMA to block.
7²RABIOT booked by the referee for a high challenge.
8²HAALAND shot wide.
10²MESSI ran onto a great ball from SAKA but fired his shot wide.
11²GOAL!! A tackle from MENDY gave Manchester City a free-kick twenty-five yards out which VINÍCIUS JÚNIOR fired past VLACHODIMOS. (2-0 Manchester City)
17²A twenty-five yard drive from DEPAY caused the Manchester City 'keeper little difficulty.
18²A accurate pass was collected by RICHARLISON and his right foot effort flew narrowly over.
19²FRIMPONG beat two Aston Villa players and slammed an effort over the bar.
22²FODEN made space on the left and dragged the ball to SAKA who touched the ball wide.
28²GOAL!! A great piece of skill from FODEN gave DE BRUYNE space on the right and MESSI poked in his pin-point pass. (3-0 Manchester City)
31²A shot from SAKA was nodded off the line by BOEY.
33²GOAL!! A delightful drive from HAALAND was punched clear by the 'keeper only as far as VINÍCIUS JÚNIOR who hit the ball past the stranded 'keeper. (4-0 Manchester City)
36²GOAL!! DE BRUYNE hit a swerving thirty yard shot past the bemused 'keeper. (5-0 Manchester City)
42²A cross from RODRI left MESSI in lots of space but he fluffed his shot.

 
Manchester City
 
League position: 5
Home league form: XXWW
Overall league form: XXLWLWWW
Formation: 3-4-3
Line-ups
Gianluigi DONNARUMMA7½17 Odysseas VLACHODIMOS
Bukayo SAKA7 26 Sacha BOEY
Phil FODEN7 37½Ferland MENDY
(c)GONÇALO Bernardo INÁCIO7 46½Adrien RABIOT
RÚBEN Santos DIAS7½56 Benoît BADIASHILE
RODRI7½66 Mario PASALIC
Lionel MESSI8 76½Nicoló ZANIOLO
(f)Jeremie FRIMPONG6½86½Sadio MANÉ(c)
Erling HAALAND5½96½Memphis DEPAY(p)
(p)Kevin DE BRUYNE6½105½Marcelo BROZOVIC(f)
VINÍCIUS José JÚNIOR7 116 RICHARLISON de Andrade
Lee AvramovicManager
Jorrel HATO  12  Yves BISSOUMA
James TRAFFORD  13  Matej KOVÁR
Victor OSIMHEN  14  Ivan ILIC
Jude BELLINGHAM  15  Jesper LINDSTRØM
TONI  16  Francisco EVANILSON
 
Aston Villa
 
League position: 3
Away league form: WWLO
Overall league form: WWWWLLWO
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Manchester City 5 Aston Villa 0
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 54,974, Stadium: Etihad Stadium, Referee: Andy D'Urso 5½)

Messi 38¹, Vinícius Júnior 11², Messi 28², Vinícius Júnior 33², de Bruyne 36²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
 
  
  
Saka 28¹, de Bruyne 39¹Rabiot 7²
21
1518
20
73
203
276
23
58%42%
Man of the match: Lionel Messi