2024-01-13 19:30:32
By Le Figaro
Published 20 minutes ago, Updated now
De Bruyne, strong comeback. SCOTT HEPPELL / REUTERS
Pep Guardiola’s men won a victory this Saturday against the Magpies (3-2).
Manchester City, trailing, managed to overthrow Newcastle 3-2 and climbed to 2nd place in the Premier League on Saturday thanks to their captain Kevin De Bruyne, scorer then decisive passer in added time, five months after his last appearance in the league.
The three-time reigning champion felt the breath of defeat at his back but “KDB”, back for the first time in the Premier League since his injury in early August, got him out of the rut. The Belgian creator equalized five minutes after coming on (74th, 2-2) then sent the young Oscar Bobb to score the winning goal (90th+1) in a white-hot St James’ Park. This victory acquired at the last minute, without Erling Haaland still injured, allows the Mancunians to steal second place (43 points) from Aston Villa (3rd, 42 pts), traveling to Everton on Sunday.
Pep Guardiola’s team returns to two points behind leader Liverpool (45 pts), engaged next weekend in this 21st split day, the last before the winter break. The Mancunians also have to play a late match, on February 20 against Brentford. The black point comes from the injury at the very start of the match of goalkeeper Ederson, hit while leaving at the feet of Sean Longstaff, scorer reported offside (2nd), and left limping six minutes later, unable to continue the game.
Newcastle, for their part, have a fourth defeat and are in tenth place, two points behind a trio made up of Manchester United, Chelsea and Brighton. The locals had, however, managed to recover after the opening score of Bernardo Silva (26th, 1-0), author of a magnificent “madjer”, thanks to curling strikes from Alexander Isak (35th, 1-1) , unstoppable at the start of the year, and Anthony Gordon (37th, 2-1).
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