Friday July 13, 2012 July Finished
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Manchester City suffer Al-Hilal defeat in Innsbruck
Manchester City endured a shaky start to their pre-season as they suffered a 1-0 defeat to Saudi Arabian side Al-Hilal in Innsbruck. More
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Time:90'- Al Hilal
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90' FULL TIME. And that's it. Very little added time from the referee, and Al-Hilal have beaten Manchester City 1-0.- 90' Chance for City as Mancini bursts forward, but his ball wide to Weiss is too strong and trickles out of play.
- 88' Time running out for City if they want to avoid defeat in their opening pre-season game.
- 87' But Weiss's delivery is not the greatest and the ball is plucked from the sky by the Al-Hilal number one.
- 86' City win another free-kick wide on the right and most of the big men are forward from the back as City look to salvage something from this one.
- 84' Al-Hilal try to catch City on the break with a swift counter-attack but the final ball is pounced on by an alert Johansen.
- 82' Weiss's corner is cleared but he gets a second chance and drills a low ball in but Bunn's effort from close-range is blocked.
- 80' City seeing plenty of the ball but struggling to do much with it. They're looking short of ideas in attack.
77' City sub: Mancini on, Jelavic off.
75' City's best chance since falling behind. Weiss swings a dangerous free-kick in from the right but Kolo Toure can't stoop low enough to keep his header on target at the far post.- 73' Savic at fault again as he fails to head the ball clear. It's pounced onby Aljohani in the City box but Johansen watches Aljohani's shot sail harmlessly over the top. Should be 2-0.
- 71' But having said that Savic gives the ball away and Al-Hilal break down field, but Johansen is able to turn the ball around for a corner.
- 70' Al-Hilal have visibily dropped deeper and seem to be playing for a 1-0 win already.
- 69' Well that's livened things up. A loose ball falls to Alabid, who finds a yard from Boyata, and strikes low into the bottom corner from 18 yards. Smart finish, and City are behind.
68' GOAL! Al-Hilal score!- 66' Yoo, a half-time substitute, was struggling with injury and has been replaced.
- 65' Al-Hilal sub: Aljohani on, Yoo off.
64' Helen is yellow carded for a reckless challenge.- 63' Evans is wearing number 70!
- 62' City sub: Evans on, Scapuzzi off.
- 60' Weiss picks out Omar with a beautiful sweeping ball from left to right, but Omar can't quite keep it in. Nice idea by Weiss though.
- 58' But Al-Hilal are more than comfortable in possession when they get it, and are knocking it around nicely.
- 56' Weiss beginning to exert some influence on the game from midfield.
- 54' Best move of the second half so far as Elabdellaoui reaches Helen's deep cross from the left, but fails to make a good contact with his head and nods it into the side-netting.
- 52' Luca Scapuzzi is the only City player to have remained on the field from the first half.
- 51' So the full City team for the second half is: Johansen, Boyata, Savic, Kolo Toure, Scapuzzi, Weiss, Razak, Omar, Jelavic, Bunn, Helen.
- 49' Al-Hilal seeing more of the ball as the second half begins in rather tepid fashion.
- 47' Indeed, Roberto Mancini has rung the changes at half time. I'll bring you all of those changes in a moment...
46' SECOND HALF. Manchester City get this second half underway in Innsbruck.- 19.05 Pantilimon, Zabaleta, Kolarov, Kompany, Rekik, Biton, Yaya, Lopes, Johnson, Tevez and Scapuzzi have featured for City in the first half but we understand there will be several changes made by Roberto Mancini at the break, or soon after.
- 19.00 Due to technical difficulties we've been unable to bring you the first half of Al-Hilal vs Manchester City, but the good news is that it's still 0-0. We'll be bringing you the second half commentary live right here.
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Summary
- 75' City's best chance since falling behind. Weiss swings a dangerous free-kick in from the right but Kolo Toure can't stoop low enough to keep his header on target at the far post.
- 73' Savic at fault again as he fails to head the ball clear. It's pounced onby Aljohani in the City box but Johansen watches Aljohani's shot sail harmlessly over the top. Should be 2-0.
- 69' Well that's livened things up. A loose ball falls to Alabid, who finds a yard from Boyata, and strikes low into the bottom corner from 18 yards. Smart finish, and City are behind.
- 68' GOAL! Al-Hilal score!
- 54' Best move of the second half so far as Elabdellaoui reaches Helen's deep cross from the left, but fails to make a good contact with his head and nods it into the side-netting.
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absoloutly rubbish man s****y
Man City 2 - 8 Olympic Marseille? Oh wait, that was last years friendly, oh wait again, it was Man Utd. Tick tock tick tock. ha, ha, ha, ha.
for some ignorants who donno who alhilal is or laughing out the matter: 1) Al-Hilal is the Asian Team of the century (upto 1999), and largly remain one of the best in Asia thus far. 2) Al-Hilal has beaten all of (Valencia - Inter as well as Man U) before adding ManC to the list if it was a pre-season friendly for Man C, so it was for Al-Hilal a defeat is a defeat you sad sods and credit should always be given to who ever deserve it.
The Mighty Al Hilal power on taking scalps.Man City no match for the team assembled by a manager no one has heard of,or players with unpronouncable names.Oh come on!!!,what do you mean you have never heard of them?.
was it a fix?
was it a fix?
Friendlies dont mean anything. Just look at the team in the second half, NONE will start next season
Funny cuz both teams are run by arabs
Mancini has spent millions putting together a championship side. He must be thinking. WHY ALLWAYS ME.
ha. i must of jinxed it.
man city i think you can beat southampton in first game in premier league
The predictions are just funny, 7-0 to Chitty?! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! That's what you get for being overconfident.
"90'Chance for City as Mancini bursts forward, but his ball wide to Weiss is too strong and trickles out of play." lol seriously is Mancini now playing for city? I guess the match must be too tough for city players that mancini had to kick some hard ball :)
check out the score preDIKtions below....LMAO
Alabid - remember the name. He will be the next Chity signing.
where was van persie?
what a laugh even the manager had to play for city! What happened to the 6-0's and 6-1's from city fans im busting a gut. I think city will do a Backburn, win the EPL once and then just become an average team, possibly relegated within 10 years. Agree thumbs up Disagree thumbs down
Not going to say much as it was only a friendly but... Hahahahahahaha
HaHaHaHaHaHa,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,
Hahahahaha Man city fans calling them the best team in the world. And what do they get this. Going to be a season for you NOT.
