CHAMPIONS LEAGUE : MANCHESTER CITY VS BORUSSIA DORTMUND – 05/11/2025 (PHOTO – PHIL FODEN SCORES A BRACE FOR MAN CITY)

WHAT AN ENTHRALLING MATCH BETWEEN MAN CITY VS BORUSSIA DORTMUND LAST NIGHT! BEING ERLING HAALAND’S FORMER TEAM ‘N ALL YOU NEVER REALLY KNOW WHETHER THERE WILL BE ANY ARGEY-BARGEY! (THE ONLY NOTICEABLE THING WAS BORUSSIA DORTMUND’S CAPTAIN EMRE CAN TRYING TO PULL OFF ERLING HAALAND’S CAPTAIN’S ARMBAND DURING A TACKLE – THE LITTLE RASCAL!😒) AND THE MATCH WAS CERTAINLY A LIVELY ONE. BOTH GOALKEEPERS DONNARUMMA AND KOBE WERE KEPT BUSY MAKING SOME FANTASTIC STOPS THROUGHOUT.  WITH BORUSSIA DORTMUND MAKING 411 PASSES, WITH A 91% PASS ACCURACY, AND 49% POSSESSION, PLUS 6 SHOTS, WITH 1 SUCCESSFUL CRACKER ON-TARGET AT 72 MINS. FROM WALDEMAR ANTON (BELOW)

WHICH SEEMED TO OPEN UP PEPS EYES, WHO GOT UP AND JUMPED OUT OF THE DUGOUT, AS THE GAME HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN 3 – 0 TO MAN CITY UNTIL THEN, THANKS TO A BRILLIANT BRACE FROM PHIL FODEN AT 22 MINS. (BELOW)

AND 57 MINS. RESPECTIVELY (BELOW)

AND SOME MORE SUPERB LEFT-FOOTED FANCY FOOTWORK FROM HAALAND AT 29 MINS. 

PEP MUST HAVE REALISED THAT WITH 18 MINS LEFT, THE SCORELINE COULD TAKE A DIFFERENT COURSE, SO HE BROUGHT ON RUBEN DIAS, AND RAYAN CHERKI WITH CHERKI MAKING LIGHT-WORK OF SCORING THE MOST MAGNIFICENT GOAL IN EXTRA TIME AT 90 +1 MINS. HIS 1ST GOAL AT THE ETIHAD STADIUM AND ONE OF MANY, TO BE SURE… (BELOW)

MAN CITY MADE 408 PASSES IN TOTAL WITH A 92% PASS ACCURACY, HAD 51% POSSESSION, AND 14 SHOTS, WITH 9 ON-TARGET, BUT WITH NO TIME LEFT AFTER CHERKI’S LATE SMASHER, THE MATCH CULMINATED IN A 4 – 1 WIN TO MAN CITY!

THIS WIN SEES MAN CITY MAINTAIN THEIR UNBEATEN RUN IN THE UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE AND NOW ELEVATES THEM INTO THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TOP EIGHT!

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE : MANCHESTER CITY VS BORUSSIA DORTMUND – 05/11/2025

PEP GUARDIOLA SAYS PHIL FODEN IS BACK TO HIS BRILLIANT BEST