Man City 3-3 Feyenoord: City’s woes continues
Man City 3-3 Feyenoord: City’s woes continues. Pep Guardiola and Manchester City’s miserable run of form continued on Tuesday night when they threw away a shock 3-goal lead, to draw 3-3 draw at home to Feyenoord.
Pep Guardiola’s side were 3-0 up and cruising early in the second half, as an Erling Haaland double was accompanied by a strike from Ilkay Gundogan, only for a spectacular late collapse to hand Feyenoord a share of the spoils.
How the game unfolded:
City began brightly and Ilkay Gundogan saw the game’s first real chance deflected wide in the early stages. The hosts controlled the tempo, drawing plenty of scrappy fouls as Feyenoord battled to match the tempo.
Feyenoord stopper Timon Wellenreuther combined with his far post to keep an Haaland header out in the tenth minute, but the goalkeeper nearly became the villain when his poor pass found Bernardo Silva. Some penalty-box pinball ultimately spared his blushes.
Phil Foden’s fizzing strike from range needed turning round Wellenreuther’s post while, down the other end, Ederson was brought into action to deny Igor Paixao, who perhaps should have given the visitors an unlikely lead against the run of play.
With five minutes to go in the first half, David Hancko made an excellent block to deny Haaland, but the ensuing corner saw City awarded a penalty when Quentin Timber sent the Norwegian tumbling to the ground. Haaland stepped up and made no mistake from 12 yards, smashing the ball into the back of the net twice in a display of both frustration and relief to see things actually go his way for the first time in a while.
City doubled their advantage shortly after the restart. Gundogan bagged his second goal of the competition with a low strike which took a wicked deflection off Hancko en route to the back of the net.
Just three minutes later, Haaland was celebrating once again. He slid in to convert a low cross from Matheus Nunes, seemingly ending the game as a competition, however, the game was only just getting started.
With City beginning to relax, some sloppy defending opened the door for Feyenoord to snatch a goal of their own. Josko Gvardiol’s poor pass back to Ederson was pounced upon by Anis Hadj Moussa, who rounded the City goalkeeper and converted from a narrow angle.
Another display of lacklustre defending allowed Santiago Gimenez to tap home from close range with eight minutes to go and, as the clock ticked towards 90, Hancko headed home on a counter to pile even more misery on City, who are now without a win in six games.
