Despite dominating possession, Manchester City lost 1-0 to Newcastle at St James’ Park thanks to Alexander Isak’s second-half goal
If Pep Guardiola did not particularly relish receiving a reminder that, sometimes, possession can be overrated, Eddie Howe saw his Newcastle team transformed by the half-time introduction of Bruno Guimarães and Anthony Gordon.
Guardiola departed Tyneside mildly irked by some of the officiating, which he felt insufficiently protected his City players, but he did not arrive in the best of moods either. The club’s failure to organise a plane to fly the team back to Manchester dictated that they faced a fatiguing three-hour coach journey home. Yet if the Catalan was suitably unhappy about that he seemed relatively sanguine about his team’s first defeat of the season.“Congratulations to Newcastle,” he said.
Eventually all that monopolisation of possession resulted in a clear-cut chance involving Oscar Bobb’s deft reverse pass picking out Julián Álvarez. Pope saved with an outstretched right foot. With Howe’s players penned firmly into their own half, City seemed utterly irrepressible. Not to mention capable of outmanoeuvring their hosts at almost every turn.
Ditto the debut-making Tino Livramento, who successfully blunted Grealish’s attacking edge. “Paul Dummett was absolutely outstanding,” said Howe, who now faces a repeat of
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