Manchester City Tekuk Newcastle United di Laga Pembuka
Silva and Sergio Start Champions` Title Defence in Style for Manchester City
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
Newcastle (B2B) - Juara bertahan Liga Inggris musim lalu, Manchester City mengantongi tiga poin pada pertandingan pertamanya ketika menang lawan Newcastle United 2-0. Gol dicetak David Silva dan Sergio Aguero.
Di menit 38 babak pertama, David Silva mencetak gol pembuka dari umpan panjang Yaya Toure yang diterima Dzeko. Lalu Dzeko mengumpannya ke Silva yang sudah ada di area kotak penalti, seperti dilansir Yahoo Sports.
Menit 50 Colback menendang sepak pojok dan mengarah ke Gouffran, Goffrun yang berdiri dekat tiang menendang bola tetapi berhasil diblok oleh Joe Hart. Menit 73 Toure mengekseskusi tendangan bebas bagi City, tetapi tendangannya masih melambung ke atas gawang kiper Krul.
Pemain pengganti, Sergio Aguero menggandakan keunggulan City menjadi 2-0. Aguero berlari membawa bola dari tengah, tak terkawal, Aguero sempat menendang bola tetapi diblok oleh Krul. Bola yang diblok Krul bergulir ke kaki Aguero dan pemain timnas Argentina ini menendang bola dan tak dapat dihalau Krul pada menit 90.
Newcastle - Manchester City, last season´s English Premier League champions, opened their 2014-2015 campaign with a 2-0 win over Newcastle United on Sunday. City used goals from David Silva and Sergio Agüero to make sure their season got off on the right track.
Silva opened the scoring in the 35th minute after he received a skillful backheel pass from Edin Dzeko, notes Eurosport.com. Newcastle committed players forward early in the second half, but never managed to cause too much trouble, as they failed to get a single shot on goal against Joe Hart.
With Newcastle desperately seeking an equalizer in the closing minutes of the match, Agüero was able to find some space and double City´s score in stoppage time. It did not always look pretty for City, according to The Guardian, but no team will ever complain after taking all three points in an away game.
City got their title defense off to the perfect start, but we will have to wait to see how Chelsea looks when they take in Burnley tomorrow before we know who has the sharpest squad early in the season.
