City 2 West Ham United 0
Feb 19th 2020 att.50,379 approx
It is not often I miss the start of a game but alas the traffic tonight was very bad and it took me two and a half hours to get to the ground. Anyway it was not a great game - most thoughts were on the Uefa problem. It was an easy win for City and they rarely had to lift their game. The visitors hardly had a shot on goal and Ederson did not have a shot to save. We had a rare moment in the first half when we scored from a corner! Rodri being the nodder from Kevin's corner. De Bruyne scored a goal in the second half and City played out time without any problems. With 12 games left City are still 22 points behind Liverpool so it will take some miracle for us to retain the trophy!!
Lots of gaps in the crowd tonight. However knowing the system they will say 54,000 were here! There should be Premiership rules stipulating the correct attendance!
City made several changes from the loss at Spurs - Laporte and Mendy came back and both Aguero and Jesus played up front. Both the Silva's were back too.
A lot of gaps in the visiting areas too tonight. It was brave of them to come
Thank goodness nothing had happened in the early minutes
Silva puts the ball through to Jesus who fails to beat Fabianski
De Bruyne passes to Aguero who shoots just wide
Jesus just can't get his shot in when well placed
Fabianski saves a cross from Kevin
Aguero just fails to get a shot in
Laporte heads clear a rare West Ham corner
Fabianski saves from Mendy
West Ham concede another corner
From Kevin's corner kick Rodri loops a header past the keeper into the corner to give City the lead
Just on the half hour and time to celebrate
De Bruyne has to do some defensive work!
Fabianski saves from Jesus
A rare West Ham effort goes wide
Just before half time Masuaku brings down De Bruyne and gets a yellow card
Moonchester once again wins the World Championship beating Hammerhead!
A cross from Walker is cleared
Fredericks is injured and is replaced by Zabaleta
City fans give the ex City player a great welcome home!
Benardo shoots just wide of the far post
Benardo and De Bruyne link up......
...and the move ends with Kevin shooting past the keeper to make it two nil much to the delight of the North Stand
It was an excellent goal and City could now take it a bit easy with big games to come soon
Jesus fails to beat the keeper
Aguero has a shot blocked
another effort by Jesus is foiled by the keeper
Otamendi needs some help to hear clear!
West Ham make a rare late attack but Ederson has nothing to do
The two managers say farewell!
team
Ederson 6.5: Walker 6.5, Otamendi 6.5, Laporte 7 (Stones) Mendy 6.5: Rodri 7, Silva 7.5 (Foden ) De Bruyne 8 (Gundogan), Benardo 7.5, Aguero 6.5, Jesus 6
