Man City, with their superior class, quickly dominated the game against Wolverhampton. However, coach Pep Guardiola's team was the first to concede a goal.
In the 7th minute, in the first notable attack, Nelson Semedo broke down the right wing, making a difficult cross for Jorgen Larsen to cut in. The Wolverhampton player overcame the challenge of the Man City defender, beating Ederson from close range.
Larsen opened the scoring for the "wolves".
In the 12th minute, Wolves almost scored another goal after Semedo's effort. The Portuguese defender used his speed to get behind the Man City defense. He had a chance to face Ederson but failed to take advantage of the opportunity.
Man City tried to press the pitch in the following minutes. Facing the dense defense of Wolves, Man City had to wait until the 33rd minute to equalize. Josko Gvardiol received a pass from Jeremy Doku, calmly controlled the ball and fired a shot into the far corner. The ball flew uncomfortably, hitting the corner of the goal and defeating Jose Sa.
Man City had more shots, but their expected goals (xG) in the first half was just 0.69, much lower than Wolverhampton's figure of 0.93.
The second half scenario was similar to the first. Man City pressed the field to find the second goal, but the home team's defense played focused. Stars like Phil Foden and Erling Haaland were almost harmless for more than 45 minutes of the second half. Bernardo Silva even had a head bleed after a high kick from his teammate Foden.
Playing in a tight spot, Man City had to look for a corner kick to score. In about 120 seconds, from minute 90+2 to minute 90+4, Man City received 4 consecutive corner kicks. At the 4th corner kick, John Stones jumped high to head the ball to increase the score to 2-1, completing Man City's comeback.
John Stones scored in the last minute of stoppage time.
The match ended in a 2-1 draw at Mollineux Stadium. This was a result that satisfied Pep Guardiola, because they temporarily took the top spot from Liverpool.
If The Kop loses or draws with Chelsea in the key match of round 8, Man City will officially stay at the top of the table.
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