Tuesday, August 22, 2017

MAN CITY YAGOMA 'KUFA' MBELE YA EVERTON

Wayne Rooney scored his 200th Premier League goal but Raheem Sterling came off the bench to snatch a 1-1 draw for Manchester City against Everton.
In a frantic contest that saw both sides reduced to 10 men, Rooney's second goal since rejoining the Toffees looked to have earned victory after Kyle Walker was harshly sent off at the Etihad Stadium.
City responded in the second half and substitute Sterling volleyed a fine 82nd-minute equaliser before Everton's Morgan Schneiderlin also saw red.
City may feel the result was the least they deserved after controversy erupted before half-time when Walker was ruled to have floored Dominic Calvert-Lewin.
It was a breathless contest, one that underlined preseason optimism at Everton after their summer outlay -- and record signing Gylfi Sigurdsson was held back until the second half.
The fireworks even started before the game as the players arrived onto the pitch to a flurry of pyrotechnics.
On the night City launched their new Tunnel Club -- an exclusive new hospitality offering in which patrons get to see players in a new glass tunnel -- there was clearly an eagerness to open the home campaign in style.
On this occasion they may have gone slightly overboard, as the flares left the pitch shrouded in fog for at least the first 20 minutes.
There initially appeared plenty of clarity to City's thinking, however. With David Silva pulling the strings, Pep Guardiola's men looked confident in attack and carved out a number of openings.
 
 

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