Jesus and Sterling Make 100 Percent Winning for City
Jesus and Sterling Make 100 Percent Winning for City
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MANCHESTER - Manchester City produced another largely impressive display as they beat in-form Serie A leaders Napoli to maintain their 100 percent winning start to this season's Champions League with 2-1 against Napoli.
Billed as an encounter between the two most scintillating attacking sides in Europe, City fully lived up to the hype before the break, giving their Italian rivals a brutal lesson in high-pressing, incisive football.
Goals from Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus - both neat close-range finishes - looked to have set the home side on course for a handsome victory, during a first 45 minutes in which Kevin de Bruyne also struck the crossbar with a 25-yard shot.
However, Napoli battled back into the game and, despite having a Dries Mertens penalty saved by Ederson, they converted a second through Amadou Diawara's neat finish to set up a nervy final 17 minutes for the home side.
But City held out for a win that leaves them top of Group F, three points clear of Shakhtar Donetsk, who won 2-1 at Feyenoord.
Billed as an encounter between the two most scintillating attacking sides in Europe, City fully lived up to the hype before the break, giving their Italian rivals a brutal lesson in high-pressing, incisive football.
Goals from Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus - both neat close-range finishes - looked to have set the home side on course for a handsome victory, during a first 45 minutes in which Kevin de Bruyne also struck the crossbar with a 25-yard shot.
However, Napoli battled back into the game and, despite having a Dries Mertens penalty saved by Ederson, they converted a second through Amadou Diawara's neat finish to set up a nervy final 17 minutes for the home side.
But City held out for a win that leaves them top of Group F, three points clear of Shakhtar Donetsk, who won 2-1 at Feyenoord.
(rnz)
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