It has been said many times in Football that great teams still get the result even when they do not play all that well, luck isn’t on their side and despite being pressured a lot of the game. Well for Manchester City, today was one of those games. City had more of the ball and looked dangerous as you would expect but Holloway’s’ Blackpool chased and harried the City defense and more than once Joe Hart was called into action.
It all started off so different for City when within the first 30 seconds Carlos Tevez shot wide of the Blackpool goal. After that warning shot across the bow, Blackpool seemed to step up their game with Taylor-Fletcher forcing a save from Hart. City did in fact take the lead and it was through a deflected shot after half an hour from young Adam Johnson (who was wearing a tribute to his friend and Rushden keeper on his undershirt).
Less than a minute later City had been awarded a penalty after Yaya Toure was felled in the area. Up stepped Mr. Consistency, Carlos Tevez who placed the shot wide of the goal.
Later Tevez was to slip at a vital moment after rounding the Blackpool keeper and place another shot high and wide of Kingson’s goal.
David Platt summed up the game in his after match comments "It was hard work and became harder because we didn't take our chances. We needed that cushion as we knew they'd keep coming at us.”
City fans will be pleased though because that is now three games, nine points and all with clean sheets as the only team in Manchester keep pace with ‘them from Salford’ who also won today.
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