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Manchester City vs Watford 2-1 Highlights & Goals | EFL Cup 2024 HD
Manchester City vs Watford 2-1
Manchester City vs Watford 2-1 Highlights
Manchester City vs Watford
Manchester City vs Watford 2-1 Highlights & Goals | EFL Cup 2024 HD
Manchester City vs Watford 2-1
Manchester City vs Watford 2-1 Highlights
Manchester City vs Watford
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00:00Every reason to feel confident here.
00:03A result, so you have to show caution.
00:06I think that back three, back five,
00:08they're going to have to set in.
00:10The forward line is Doku, Foden, Grealish, not too shabby.
00:14There are also opportunities for the likes of Niko,
00:16while Tom Ince will hope to add to the hat trick he scored in round one.
00:21Daniel Jefferson's Cup tied.
00:23Debut of hardly featuring in any games, even the EDS, etc.
00:28But they seem to like what they won the last 15 in a row.
00:32They've scored 58 goals in.
00:35I wonder how many Hornets fans in the away end tonight
00:39were there at Main Road that day to Grealish.
00:42Bombing down the left for City straight away, faced up by Ince.
00:46Oh, and he actually hit.
00:50Walker, he's just managed to thread that ball through.
00:55Wide by Nunes to Grealish, and he'll head for the dead ball line here.
01:00Just in competition.
01:02Oh, that's short.
01:03And McAtee was on to that in a flash.
01:06Back for Grealish.
01:07Now Doku took it well, took it beautifully.
01:12Jeremy Doku opens the scoring inside five minutes.
01:17And I'm afraid to say that Watford are the authors of their own downfall there.
01:22You wondered if they might have got away with it.
01:25City had other ideas.
01:30That's the danger.
01:32You're moving the ball around.
01:33City are excellent on the press.
01:35They know what's coming.
01:36They'll let a particular person have the ball.
01:39They have little traps and triggers when the press comes.
01:43Short pass. McAtee does very, very well, just pinching the ball.
01:47And then they come in the ball up to bar.
01:51Four Watford players up in this attack.
01:54Ken Semmer was lurking.
01:55The goal scorer.
01:58Shaped to go one way, went the other.
02:00And it's his ball in.
02:03Doku.
02:07Lovely ball in.
02:08Doku will give him goals with the run here.
02:12He points, knows where he wants it.
02:13McAtee just behind him, tries to.
02:15Up front to do that.
02:17And it's paid off for them here.
02:19As Barr advances.
02:22Jones-Stone's in that role there, stepping forward.
02:26We'll talk a little bit later about the transition for somebody to fill.
02:30In the absence of Roderick, he's got the ability to pass it.
02:33That's a good try.
02:35This could be a kick-start for him.
02:38I think what he's got, he's got that determination to get into forward air.
02:43Couldn't smuggle it back to McAtee, but Rico Lewis will try and keep it in.
02:48Back to McAtee.
02:50Doku wins it back.
02:53Foden trying to...
02:58Lewis has squeezed it through to Foden.
03:01We've been playing through the summer.
03:03He's missed a couple of games, but when he gets into these positions...
03:08Up!
03:09Taking on young Braithwaite.
03:14Well, that's a pass to a forward player. Was it a foul?
03:18He gets into position here, it's just whether the arm comes out.
03:22I think when you look at it, there was a smile by Barr, but it's that one.
03:26You don't really see it in that finish, right across Ortega,
03:29who's very good in those situations.
03:31Maybe that straightened arm convinced the referee.
03:34Beautifully through to McAtee, Grealish.
03:41Couldn't own Mr Grealish.
03:44Oh, he's done well against Debussele there.
03:47Jack Grealish, really exciting, that drag, wonderful play,
03:52tries to do it again, the second time.
03:54Come on in the community shield as a substitute,
03:57this is his second senior appearance.
04:00Doku, Foden.
04:04Oh, defender and goalkeeper collide.
04:09That was the delivery, wasn't it? Uncertainty.
04:13Goalkeeper come in.
04:15Obviously got that opportunity.
04:18Mateus Nunez, didn't quite reach Foden, it does reach Doku.
04:25He comes down the left-hand side,
04:27I fancied him straight away to go on half-volley at the first time.
04:33Oh, he was caught in possession there, loser.
04:36Here's Foden, that's a foul.
04:38City team, they'll punish you.
04:43He's got some fast feet,
04:45something you've worked on is a slight weakness.
04:50Foden into the wall.
04:54Taking the direct approach.
04:57Wouldn't quite fall.
04:59Stones.
05:02Nicely done, Lewis.
05:04Mateus Nunez.
05:07Well, that's brilliant.
05:09Watford thought they'd done enough.
05:12But Mateus Nunez found the gap.
05:16And how he needed that.
05:20His first goal for Manchester City.
05:23On his 34th appearance for the club, it's 2-0.
05:30There's his pace, how he got quick out,
05:32Rico Lewis starting that off, that little give-and-go around the corner.
05:36Probably thought he was going to...
05:38McAtee, Doku.
05:43Jeremy Doku just thinks so fast, his feet go one way, then the other.
05:49Grealish.
05:52Heads for the byline again, really well.
05:55It's better from Grealish, he knows the space is there,
05:58he showed the line because he feels...
06:01Mateus Nunez.
06:05Oh, what a great ball in.
06:07So difficult to sit there and not do something about it.
06:10Doku.
06:13Luzer spreading it to La Russi.
06:17As we move into stoppage time at the end of the half!
06:20From Yasser La Russi here, begging to be headed home.
06:25Walker.
06:28Straight into the action Savino, finding Lewis, cleared.
06:33No way through for Luzer.
06:36And then he's rugby-tackled, Grealish.
06:40Wiped by Lewis to Savino.
06:45Watford in the summer after leaving LA Galaxy.
06:50Grealish.
06:53Lewis, delightful flick.
06:56Foden sees his advantage with Grealish in possession.
07:00Rolls square, gets it back again, McAtee.
07:04McAtee, Grealish.
07:07McAtee, oh, what a ball!
07:11Well, he almost touched it in, the ball was that good.
07:14Uncertainty back post.
07:17Goes over, we play on, it's Foden.
07:20Well blocked.
07:22Look here, thought it was a good advantage after that little pass,
07:25it was clever, wasn't it, by McAtee.
07:30Nicely done by Grealish, beautifully done.
07:33Foden.
07:34Great positions, Phil Foden, Jack Grealish,
07:37on the edge of the area, but Foden shifts it quickly.
07:41Foden, Grealish.
07:49Helped on to Grealish.
07:53Mateus Nunez,
07:55Jack Bataja, faced by McAtee,
07:58gets the cross in towards Ogbonna,
08:00to the game.
08:04Good ball initially,
08:06and then the volley,
08:08it's got to be clean, it's got to be across the face,
08:11but it doesn't catch it.
08:14O'Reilly,
08:16nicely taken there by Mateus Nunez,
08:19good stop.
08:20Grealish.
08:23A chance for Lewis,
08:25and again, Savino,
08:27oh, fantastic clearance off the line.
08:30Nunez, but he was in the right place.
08:34Nunez, brilliant, great save down the right-hand side,
08:37but just City keep them locked in,
08:39wonderful pass from Grealish,
08:41Rico Lewis find himself in those areas yet again,
08:44but as it's swept over,
08:46right past the goalkeeper, Savino, great effort.
08:50VAR for Watford.
08:52Ebersele is up there with him.
08:59The rest of the support is not really arriving,
09:02in the end, Barjotan.
09:06Grealish.
09:09Porteous.
09:10Grealish.
09:12Mateus Nunez!
09:14Good stop from Bonds.
09:18Foden lets the ball run across his body and drives forward,
09:21beaten away by Bonds.
09:25Foden, wonderful.
09:28As he glances forward, just has that look.
09:32Good strike.
09:33Past the first challenge.
09:36All the way into the penalty area, Savino.
09:38Oh, he's unlucky.
09:40Foden again.
09:44O'Reilly.
09:47Some great play from City.
09:49This is a brilliant strike.
09:51Savino.
09:55Coming back on his left side, this time actually hit his teammate.
09:58Savino again.
10:00Heads for the byline this time.
10:02Oh, Grealish.
10:04Brilliant stop.
10:08Well, that was excellent.
10:09With another storming break.
10:11Couldn't quite poke it through to Ince,
10:13but he's got it back again here.
10:15Now it's Ince with the corner.
10:17Oh!
10:18And Tom Ince has given the Hornets hope here
10:22and sent the away end into wraps.
10:24In the middle of the pitch, I think he's made a difference
10:26because whenever he's got it,
10:27he's given everything right through the middle.
10:29We've got a little side pass in,
10:31so we know we've seen Tom Ince do this so many times.
10:34Just leans back, opens that left foot,
10:37and it's a great finish.
10:42Totally different feel to this tie now.