MAN CITY 4, VIKTORIA PLZEN 2 Manchester City made hard work of beating Czech whipping boys Viktoria Plzen to keep alive their slender hopes of finishing top of Champions League Group D. On a night when under-fire Joe Hart returned in goal and manager Manuel Pellegrini rang the changes, City laboured to beat opponents […]
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City rout Canaries with record victory
MANCHESTER CITY 7, NORWICH CITY 0 Manchester City racked up their record Barclays Premier League victory – 7-0 – at home as records fell against a depleted Norwich City side. It was City’s heaviest win since a memorable 10-1 win against Huddersfield Town in 1987. It was also the most goals scored in a match […]
Pantilimon stakes claim for Norwich start
NEWCASTLE UNITED 0 MANCHESTER CITY 2 (Capital One Cup) City have Costel Pantilimon to thank for saving a point blank effort from Papiss Cisse just two minutes into Extra Time before late goals by Alvaro Negredo and Edin Dzeko finally quelled the Newcastle resistance in an open Capital One cup tie at St James’ Park. […]
City fall to Lambert master-plan
ASTON VILLA 3, MANCHESTER CITY 2 “We played really well but it’s incredible the way we lost this game.” said Manuel Pellegrini of City’s bizarre defeat at Villa Park today in which Aston Villa clawed back a City lead twice and then won it with a third goal. It would have been easy to predict […]
City’s riches in reserve
MAN CITY 5, WIGAN ATHLETIC 0 Manchester City’s abundance of riches was never more evident as they breezed through to the last 16 of the Capital One Cup. Two goals from Stevan Jovetic – his first for the club – and one apiece from Edin Dzeko,Yaya Toure and Jesus Navas was reward for a […]