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With a goal from Sergio Agüero, Manchester City managed to cross Lyon by signing a draw in the minutes that finally earned them a place in the last 16 matches of the UEFA Champions League.
Pep Guardiola was totally absent during the whole match against the France team, the only one to have beaten this season and who clearly seems to have taken the measure.
Two shots on goal with shots at the head of Laporte and Agüero equalized the double of Cornet, a City runner, knowing that in the first leg he also scored in the win.
Despite considerable losses (Gündogan, Bernardo Silva, De Bruyne and Mendi), Guardiola remains true to his usual pattern (4-3-3), placing Siva and Mahrez as organizers and Sané, Agüero and Sterling.
While Genesio surprised with a very offensive alignment to define a midfielder with less muscle than in the first leg. Instead of Pape Cheikh or Toussart, two clbadic defensive midfielders, the Lyon coach placed the lightweight and technical Aouar alongside the mighty Ndombele. In attack, he places Depay ahead, accompanied by Fekir and Cornet.
An approach that worked in the first half-thousand wonders since Lyon could have rested with at least three goals in his account without his incredible lack of goal.
In the 13th minute, Memphis Depai only at the far post, an empty goal, missed a shot that all stadium gave by goal. The misfortune of the Dutch was followed by Maxwell Cornet who, after a quick counter-attack, was left alone against Ederson, but poorly controlled a superb pbad from Mendy and finished worse.
Cornet himself two minutes before the break marked the culmination of a large lioness party with an acrobatic shot at the center of Depay who dismissed the center.
Genesio and Guardiola are both uncomfortable. The first to forgive so many missed opportunities and the second because his team could not deploy his suffocating pressure play and ball control. On the contrary, it is the French team who, in addition to leading the match, has looked for the best chances.
Only Silva in the 14th minute with a loose finish after a brilliant counterattack and Zinchenko with a low shot on the brink of the break forced Lopes to stretch.
The second half started at the end of the first half, with a Manchester City without ideas and Lyon well established in defense with a more direct match.
As a result, locals were the first to score. The manager could not be other than Cornet and also in style, with a superb strike of wire.
The Manchester then understood that he was busy or heading for the second defeat of the season. Four minutes later, Lopes avoided the goal of the game by stopping a close-range header from Sergio Aguero. Even if the Portuguese goalkeeper could do nothing after another head, this time from Laporte, on a free kick.
The Olympique has accused the shot and closed was to fit the second immediately after. A stop in Lopes in two stages, picking up the ball on the line after Sané's shot prevented the return of the city.
A miraculous intervention that gave wings to Lyon. Just ten minutes from Depay and Cornet between Laporte and Stones, the French have taken over the advantage.
The euphoria lasted little in the Lyonés stadium for two minutes later, Agüero managed to lead the center of the corner and send the ball to the bottom of the network in a foul mark of Marcelo and Marçal.
The result qualifies Manchester City for the round of 16, while Lyon must wait until the last day, which will play against Shakhtar to try to seal the pbad.
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