Aguero Cetak Penalti, Totti Gagalkan Kemenangan City
Totti`s Record-breaking Goal Cancels Out Early Sergio Aguero Penalty
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
Manchester (B2B) - Gol cepat Aguero di menit awal mampu disamakan
Totti dan membuat pertandingan berakhir 1-1 di Liga Champions di Etihad
Stadium, Rabu, (1/10), dini hari WIB.
Kalah 0-1 di laga pembuka
Liga Champions melawan Bayern Muenchen, (17/9), membuat City mengusung
misi harus menang melawan Roma kali ini.
Belum lima menit waktu
berjalan, wasit memberikan pinalti kepada City. Itu terjadi karena
Maicon melanggar Aguero di kotak pinalti.
Dan tak diragukan lagi, Ageuero membawa City memimpin 1-0 pada menit keempat, seperti dilansir Yahoo Sports.
Kemudian Maicon mencoba menembus kesalahannya dengan menyerang City. Namun tendangan volinya masih melebar.
Sejak mencetak gol, City jarang mendapat bola dan mereka menurunkan tempo permainan dalam usahanya mendapat kembali kontrol.
Menit
21 Nainggolan mendapat kesempatan untuk mencetak gol setelah melakukan
tendangan jarak jauh, tetapi dapat ditangkap Joe Hart.
Satu menit
kemudian Totti menyamakan kedudukan untuk Roma lewat tendangan chip.
Francesco Totti menjadi pemain tertua yang mencetak gol di sejarah Liga
Champions, mematahkan rekor Ryan Giggs.
Hingga babak pertama usai skor tetap imbang 1-1.
Menit 52 Hart membuat penyelamatan dari tendangan Pjanic. Roma memanfaatkan lubang pertahanan City.
David Silva memulai serangan City dengan mengirim umpan ke Clinchy, tetapi gagal.
Kali ini, Silva mengirim umpan ke Lampard, tetapi tembakan mantan gelandang Chelsea itu melebar.
Hingga babak kedua usai, Roma melakukan tendangan ke arah gawang empat kali, sementara City dua kali.
Manchester - Francesco Totti hit a history-making goal to earn AS
Roma a richly deserved draw at UEFA Champions League Group E rivals
Manchester City FC.
Totti's first-half strike cancelled out
Sergio Agüero's early penalty and earned him a place in the record books
as the UEFA Champions League's oldest scorer at 38 years and three
days. The result left City still seeking a win in the group and three
points behind the second-placed Giallorossi after two games.
The
opening minutes were all about Maicon, Roma's Brazilian full-back,
returning to the club where he spent the 2012/13 season. His tug on
Agüero in the Roma box was penalised by referee Björn Kuipers and the
Argentinian international did the rest, sending Åukasz Skorupski the
wrong way with his spot kick. A minute later Maicon very nearly made
amends when Totti's chipped pass put him clear and he smashed an angled
shot against the crossbar.
That was a sign that Roma would not be
cowed by the early setback and a foretaste too of Totti's influence.
The Serie A outfit looked confident in possession, as would befit a team
with six straight wins behind them, and in the 23rd minute they were
back level as Totti found the net to usurp Ryan Giggs as the UEFA
Champions League's oldest marksman.
It was a beautifully worked
goal. Seydou Keita fed Radja Nainggolan and reading the arc of Totti's
run behind the City defence, he released his captain, who lofted the
ball beyond Hart and into the far corner. It was Totti's only touch in
the City box in the first period.
Totti's next trick was a cute
dink that put Gervinho clear only for the Ivory Coast forward's control
to let him down. What Gervinho does bring Roma is raw pace and two
minutes before half-time he streaked away from Gaël Clichy and drew a
near-post save from Hart.
