Man City Clinch Fourth Straight League Cup Title
26 April, 2021
Manchester City have won the Carabao Cup for the fourth season in succession with a 1-0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur at Wembley Stadium on Sunday.
Carabao Cup Final
Result: Manchester City 1-0 Tottenham Hotspur
Date: 25 April 2021
Venue: Wembley Stadium
Pep Guardiola changed six from their make an impression on Aston Villa on Wednesday as he introduced Zack Steffen, Joao Cancelo, Aymeric Laporte, Fernandinho, Raheem Sterling and Kevin de Bruyne, who returned from injury. Spurs received an enormous boost as Harry Kane was passed fit, while Harry Winks also came into the side.
City were controlling the ball well as usual and in the seventh minute, Sterling got the better of Serge Aurier before finding Phil Foden in the centre but the final shot was wide from right in the front.
The Citizens had started very brightly, enjoying over 70 percent of the possession and looking the sharper of both sides.
In the 26th minute Eric Dier relinquished possession and City broke with De Bruyne drilling the ball across goal and it fell nicely for Foden from six yards out but his shot was blocked onto the post by Toby Aldeirwereld and out for a corner.
In the 36th minute Sterling beat Aurier again and wasn't remote with a delicate dink over Hugo Lloris. And Mahrez cut inside from the proper and curled the ball inches wide of the far corner as Spurs found themselves really struggling to deal.
Shortly before the break De Bruyne was allowed time on your golf ball and curled one towards Sterling who just couldn't reach it on the stretch.
Sterling then missed an excellent chance to open the scoring. De Bruyne's slide-rule pass released him down the left and he came inside before curling wide of the far post.
With 20 minutes to go De Bruyne whipped in an excellent ball from the right-hand side to the trunk post which found an unmarked Fernandinho but his effort on a lttle bit of an angle was directly into the clutches of Lloris.
Immediately after Ilkay Gundogan played in Sterling down the right and he slice the ball back again to the German, who fired wide on his left foot. And then Mahrez came close again with another curler towards the far post corner after cutting inside on his left.
Guardiola's side would eventually broke the deadlock in the 82nd minute. Aurier was the culprit giving the free-kick away near to the corner flag on the proper. De Bruyne whipped an excellent delivery in and Aymeric Laporte rose above Moussa Sissoko to head into the corner of the net past Pierre Emile-Hojbjerg on the line.
And in the end City were full merit for their victory because they closed out the game comfortably to win the Carabao Cup for an eighth amount of time in their history.
Source: www.soccerladuma.co.za