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1¹ HAALAND hoofed the ball wide from just inside the area. 2¹ A cross from DE BRUYNE left VINÍCIUS JÚNIOR in lots of space but he scuffed his shot. 4¹ VINÍCIUS JÚNIOR rattled an easy chance past the righthand post. 6¹ RÚBEN DIAS beat four Exeter City players and drove a shot just beyond the near post. 9¹ DE BRUYNE headed wide. 11¹ GOAL!! DE BRUYNE rattled a penalty beyond the Exeter City 'keeper after ANDERSEN had handled just inside the area. (1-0 Manchester City) 18¹ RODRI made space on the right and knocked the ball to HAALAND who clipped the ball wide. 21¹ A fine run was ended by a good save by the oncoming DONNARUMMA. 26¹ A good effort from JOELINTON scraped the top of the crossbar. 28¹ GOAL!! An imaginative ROVELLA played a delightful ball down the right to PELLEGRINI who seemingly in an offside position went on to easily score. (1-1) 34¹ CALAFIORI ran onto a delightful ball from GALLAGHER but fumbled his shot wide. 34¹ A weak shot from RODRI trickled agonisingly wide. 37¹ VINÍCIUS JÚNIOR's shot beat the 'keeper but rebounded off the Exeter City post. 2² The motionless 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from ANDERSEN fell just wide. 8² GOAL!! After a neat build-up DE BRUYNE drove a low shot past CARNESECCHI. (2-1 Manchester City) 17² HAALAND fluffed a simple chance. 18² A neatly crafted cross from DAVIES was knocked goalbound by HAALAND only for the Exeter City 'keeper to block. 21² PELLEGRINI beat MUSIALA and blasted the ball to JOELINTON who toe-poked his shot wide. 26² MUSIALA hit a right foot shot over from long range. 34² OLISE floated the ball to JOELINTON who forced it wide. 41² A fine ball from FRIMPONG on the right found MUSIALA who sliced his shot over the bar. 44² DONNARUMMA did well to hold onto a wicked strike from OLISE.

Manchester City   League position: 2 Home league form: LWWW Overall league form: WLLWWWWX Formation: 3-4-3

Line-ups Gianluigi DONNARUMMA 7  1 6  Marco CARNESECCHI Jamal MUSIALA 6½ 2 6½ Jurriën TIMBER Alphonso DAVIES 6½ 3 7  Riccardo CALAFIORI (c)GONÇALO Bernardo INÁCIO 7  4 7  Joachim ANDERSEN RÚBEN Santos DIAS 7  5 6½ MIGUEL Gutiérrez RODRI 7  6 6  Nicolò ROVELLA Bukayo SAKA 7  7 6½ JOELINTON Cassio (f)Jeremie FRIMPONG 6  8 7  Lorenzo PELLEGRINI(c) Erling HAALAND 8  9 6½ Alexander SØRLOTH(p) (p)Kevin DE BRUYNE 7½ 10 6½ Conor GALLAGHER VINÍCIUS José JÚNIOR 6  11 6  Michael OLISE(f) Lee Avramovic Manager Ben Stevenson TOMÁS Lemos ARAÚJO    12 6  ISCO James TRAFFORD    13    Spike BRITS Victor OSIMHEN    14 6½ Brian BROBBEY Max DOWMAN    15    Devyne RENSCH TONI    16    Elliot ANDERSON

Exeter City   League position: 16 Away league form: WLLL Overall league form: WWLLLLWL Formation: 4-2-3-1

Manchester City go through to the next round

Statistics

Manchester City 2 Exeter City 1 (Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 55,039, Stadium: Etihad Stadium, Referee: Keith Stroud 5½, TV: highlights) de Bruyne 11¹ (pen), de Bruyne 8² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Pellegrini 28¹   RovellaóIsco 15², CalafiorióBrobbey 25²         4 8 8 13 8 6 4 3 13 7 17 10 2 2 57% 43% ¶ Man of the match: Erling Haaland ¶