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Bernardo Silva has claimed that the availability and performances of one Manchester City defender has a significantly positive knock-on effect on the wider group.The City captain’s remarks come
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Three things we learned – Villarreal 0-2 Manchester City
Erling Haaland continued his fine goalscoring streak as Manchester City beat Villarreal in their third UEFA Champions League Group Phase match. His first half strike along with a header by Bernardo Silva earned City a relatively easy victory in a potential banana skin of a match against 3rd place in La Liga Villarreal.
Villarreal is in the Champions League for the first time since the 2021-22 season, as the team finished fifth in La Liga last year. Villarreal is looking for its first win, having lost to Tottenham Hotspur and drawn with Juventus. These two teams met in the group stage of the 2011-12 UCL season, with ManCity winning both matches.
Iraola added that Enes Unal, who has been out since January with an anterior cruciate ligament tear, is "training fully".
Part of a Manchester city centre building collapsed following a scaffolding failure during demolition work on Friday (October 24). Alberton House, off Bridge Street, is being knocked down to make way for a new development.
Josko Gvardiol almost quit football when he was a youth player to play basketball "to feel happier", he admitted. The Manchester City defender nearly made the career-altering choice when he played for Dinamo Zagreb. Gvardiol, then aged 16, wasn't progressing into Zagreb's first-team so looked elsewhere for a possible career in professional sports.
Erling Haaland scored his 10th and 11th goals of the young Premier League season as Manchester City blanked Everton 2-0 at the Etihad Stadium on Saturday.
Efforts to amend a city ordinance covering syringe service programs in Manchester to establish a strict 1-to-1 needle exchange rule is raising concerns among some local nonprofits. Members of the aldermanic Committee on Alcohol,