In the early hours of December 29th, Beijing time, the 17th round of the 2022-23 Premier League season ended with the final match, defending champion Manchester City was away Elland Road Stadium played against Leeds United . After some contests, Manchester City beat Leeds United 3:1 away.
was upset at home by Brentford before the World Cup, and ended the winning streak. In addition, the dark horse Newcastle’s winning streak earlier temporarily snatched Manchester City’s second position. , who has recuperated for more than a month, ha Rand is also trying to lead the team to regain the winning momentum as soon as possible. After the opening, Manchester City launched a powerful offensive against the guest. In less than 1 minute, Ake made a precise long pass from the center and backcourt. Harland got a good chance by getting in at high speed. Shot, the timely goalkeeper Meslier bravely saved the ball. Manchester City did not seize the opportunity after attacking nearly half of the time. At the end of the first half, Manchester City began to create a series of murderous opportunities. In the 44th minute, De Bruyne midfielder responded with a very beautiful heel through ball. The 18-year-old Lewis right Lu high-speed followed up and took the ball into the penalty area to make a cross pass. Glarish and made a super-close-range push before the penalty spot and hit the plane. In the 30th minute, Haaland got another good chance as in the opening game, but his left-footed push was still bravely blocked by Mesrier.
Manchester City came back 2 minutes later, De Bruyne dribbled the ball from the backcourt and sprinted to the left front of the penalty area for most of the halftime and crossed the middle. Mesrier bravely saved it, and Rodri followed up with a smart follow-up shot. Manchester City opened the scoring 1-0. Manchester City continued to maintain a high pressure after the easy side battle. Only 5 minutes into the game, their counterattack easily penetrated the Leeds United defense line again. Glarish dribbled the ball into the penalty area and got an excellent single-handed opportunity, but his very selfless cross made cakes. Looking for status for Haaland, Haaland accepted the big gift with a smile, ate cakes and shot an empty goal, and Manchester City led 2:0.
In the 63rd minute, Manchester City moved from the right side of the frontcourt to the middle. Harland responded with Glarish, who followed up the inverted triangle and passed back. Harland scored twice and Manchester City led 3:0. In the 72nd minute, Leeds United took a left corner kick, Greenwood sent the ball to the front point, Struick turned back and Mochizuki shook his head and scored successfully, Leeds United pulled back a goal 1:3. In the 76th minute, Manchester City counterattacked in the midfield. Haaland threw away two defensive players at high speed in the middle, and got a better single-handed chance than the two in the first half. The Manchester City players who failed to seal the victory further made Guardiola dissatisfied after a few minutes. He threw and kicked the bottle on the sidelines. The bottle: "Who did I provoke? Didn't you win?" In terms of standings, after Manchester City "timely" stopped the decline, they surpassed Newcastle by 2 points in one less game and returned to second place. They fell behind by 5 points in the same number of matches as Arsenal and . Leeds United, which lost the game, failed to move further away from the relegation zone. They are currently only 3 points ahead of the bottom Southampton.
In terms of the scorer list, Haaland, who missed many chances, still scored 2 goals. He also took the lead in becoming the first player to score 20 goals in the 5 major leagues this season. The gap widened. Kane: "I scored 1 and he scored 2. How can I catch up?" Leeds United's top scorer Rodrygo failed to score today, and he is still tied for fifth with Almiron with 9 goals.
