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 […]
Alvaro Negredo
City land knockout blow
MAN CITY 5, CSKA MOSCOW 2 What a contrast to 12 months ago as Manchester City qualified for the knockout phase of the Champions League for the first time in the club’s history with two games to spare. City, who failed to win a group game last season as they made an early exit […]
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 bounce back with victory over Everton
MANCHESTER CITY 3, EVERTON 1 Everton were never going to be a pushover at the end of a week when City had been mauled by Bayern Munich but both teams competed in a highly entertaining match with the home side ending Everton’s unbeaten record thanks to goals by Alvaro Negredo, Sergio Aguero and an own […]