Manchester City beat modesto 8-0 Salford City as a local and advanced to the fourth round of the FA Cup from England, where the Argentines had various celebrations.
After the catastrophic series of 13 games of poor results, Spanish Josep Guardiola’s team added two wins against Leicester City and West Ham United to reach this debut in the FA Cup with a different energy than a month ago.
At the Eithad Stadium, those from Manchester brought out all their power with an alternative team that had, of the important ones, only the Brazilian goalkeeper Ederson, the Dutchman Nathan Aké, the German Ilkay Gündogan and Jack Grealish as starters.
In less than ten minutes, Guardiola’s men were already winning 1-0 with a goal from Belgian Jeremy Doku. The first half ended 3-0 in favor of the ‘Ciudadanos’ thanks to goals from Divin Mubama and Nico O’Reilly.
In the second stage, Grealish’s penalty made it 4-0 five minutes into the second half and, in the last half hour of the game, Manchester City decided to crush Salford City with Doku’s goal in the 24th minute. and James Mcatee’s hattrick at 17, 27 and 36.
With this result, Guardiola’s team continues to regroup after the bad streak of 13 games and advanced to the fourth round where it will wait for the draw to define its rival. For its part, Salford City will take advantage of this elimination to aim all its guns at a historic promotion to the third division.
In other meetings, the Leicester City They beat Queens Park Rangers 6-2 at the King Power stadium with a goal from the Argentine Facundo Buonanotte. The rest were converted by James Justin, Stephy Mavididi, Jamie Vardy and the Belgian Wout Faes while the Frenchman Jonathan Varane and the Algerian Rayan Kolli scored for the visitors.
At Anfield Road, the Liverpool They beat Accrington Stanley 4-0 with goals from the Portuguese Diogo Jota, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Jayden Danns and the Italian Federico Chiesa. The Argentinian Alexis Mac Allister He was on the bench but did not add minutes.
For his part, the Chelsea They beat Morecambe 5-0 thanks to goals from Tosin Adarabioyo on two occasions, the Frenchman Christopher Nkunku and the double from the Portuguese Joao Felix. Like Mac Allister, the Argentine Enzo Fernandez He was a substitute and did not enter.
In addition, Wolverhampton Wanderers beat Bristol City 2-1, Blackburn Rover defeated Middlesbrough 1-0, Birmingham City beat Lincoln 2-1, the Bournemouth from the Argentine debutant Julio Soler beat West Bromwich 5-1, Plymouth beat Brentford 1-0, Stoke City defeated Sunderland 2-1, the Nottingham Forest (Nicolas Dominguez entered in the complement) beat Luton Town 2-0, Exeter City beat Oxford United 3-1, Burnley beat Reading 3-1, Brighton and Hove Albion beat Norwich City 4-0, Leeds United They beat Harrogate Town 1-0 and, on penalties, Coventry City beat Sheffield Wednesday 4-3 after 1-1 in regulation time.
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