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Commentary
1¹GOAL!! An imaginative HØJBJERG played a delightful ball down the middle to SOLANKE who seemingly in an offside position went on to comfortably score. (1-0 Manchester City)
5¹GOAL!! A sliced NELSON shot bobbled toward OTAMENDI who made no mistake from the edge of the box. (2-0 Manchester City)
6¹The stunned 'keeper could only watch as a backpass from CARRASCO fell just over.
8¹SOLANKE's header was well saved by ARNAU TENAS.
9¹MURPHY ran onto a great ball from NMECHA but blasted his shot wide of the righthand post.
12¹GOAL!! A deep cross from HØJBJERG on the right was nodded home by NMECHA after a great leap. (3-0 Manchester City)
21¹A cross from DIATTA left SOLANKE in lots of space but he scuffed his shot.
26¹A good effort from LOZANO scraped the top of the crossbar.
27¹SOLANKE rattled an easy chance past the near post.
30¹GOAL!! Roma's LOZANO beat two defenders before firing just inside the 'keeper's lefthand post. (3-1 Manchester City)
32¹GOAL!! A quick-witted MLAKAR pounced on a loose ball on the right and made no mistake. (3-2 Manchester City)
33¹SOLANKE rushed an easy chance.
39¹A free-kick from HØJBJERG went wide.
40¹MURPHY was put clear by NELSON and he nutmegged the Roma 'keeper but rammed his shot wide.
3²A right foot shot from DIATTA was forced wide by ARNAU TENAS.
5²CARRASCO booted the ball wide from just inside the area.
6²MURPHY made space on the right and dragged the ball to CARRASCO who fired the ball over.
9²GOAL!! A free-kick was pushed away by the Manchester City 'keeper, BRESCIANINI was first to the loose ball and floated the ball to LOZANO to tuck home. (3-3)
12²GOAL!! The creative NMECHA neatly flicked on a cross for DOYLE to volley the ball in. (4-3 Manchester City)
19²DIATTA shot wide.
27²DIATTA headed wide.
29²A mix up in the Manchester City defence enabled MLAKAR to volley the ball inches wide.
30²The referee books DOYLE.
39²A poor strike from CARRASCO rolled agonisingly wide.
39²A penalty box scramble resulted in MURPHY cracking the ball wide.
43²EL SHAARAWY waltzed round MURPHY and poked a weak shot well wide.

 
Manchester City
 
League position: 16
Home league form: XXWL
Overall league form: WXLXWOLX
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Odysseas VLACHODIMOS6 16½ARNAU TENAS Ureña
Josip JURANOVIC7½27½Manuel LAZZARI
Yannick CARRASCO8 38 Ivan PERISIC(c)
Pierre-Emile HØJBJERG8 47 Marco BRESCIANINI
(c)Nicolás OTAMENDI8 56½Botond BALOGH
Benoît BADIASHILE5 66 Nicolò CASALE
Jacob MURPHY6½77 Kevin VOLLAND
Krépin DIATTA7 87 Hirving LOZANO
(p)Dominic SOLANKE6½96½Jan MLAKAR(p)
(f)Felix NMECHA6½105½Danny INGS(f)
Reiss NELSON6 116 Stephan EL SHAARAWY
Manager
C.J. EGAN-RILEY  12  CENGIZ Ünder
Loris KARIUS  13  Marco SILVESTRI
Chrislain MATSIMA6½14  Benjamin TAHIROVIC
MANU SÁNCHEZ  15  LUIZ FELIPE Ramos
Tommy DOYLE7½16  Carles PÉREZ
 
Roma
 
League position: 11
Away league form: LLWW
Overall league form: LWLLWWWL
Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics
Manchester City 4 Roma 3
(Half-time: 3-2, Attendance: 42,861, Stadium: Etihad Stadium, Referee: Rob Styles 7½)

Solanke 1¹, Otamendi 5¹, Nmecha 12¹, Doyle 12²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Lozano 30¹, Mlakar 32¹, Lozano 9²
BadiashileóMatsima 4², SolankeóDoyle 7² 
  
Doyle 30² 
23
36
14
63
124
187
10
55%45%
Man of the match: Ivan Perisic