The City striker scored four goals three days before Madrid’s visit. Guardiola’s team thrashed Watford 5-1 and thus retains the leadership of the Premier.
Gabi is ready for Los Blancos
While waiting for Real Madrid, Manchester City did their duty in the Premier League, where they hold first place, and are four points behind Liverpool, with one game in hand. The four goals from Gabriel Jesús, who was full, were too much for Watford, who lost 5-1 on their visit to the Etihad Stadium. A duel in which Pep Guardiola could not count on Kyle Walker or John Stones, but which served to see the best Kevin De Bruyne, once again. City dominated the duel from the start when Gabriel Jesús found a ball crossed by Zinchenko from the left at an empty goal and opened the scoring in the 4th minute. The Ukrainian winger, who is expected to start against Madrid due to low defense from City, cut off a good counterattack from the Hornets a few minutes later, which led to another attacking play by the hosts: De Bruyne launched a precious cross to Gabriel Jesús, which made it 2-0.
The brace from youngster
The Brazilian’s brace in the 23rd minute predicted a thrashing for City, as it ended up being, although before that Kamara was in charge of putting the “but” on Guardiola’s team. Ruben Dias was careless when taking the ball out, and served the visitors 2-1 on a layup, who had no room to grow in the game. When Roy Hodgson’s team wanted to recover, Rodrigo Hernández laid the ball down with his chest, let it bounce and volleyed to make it 3-1 after the first half hour. A great goal that was born in the recovery of Gabriel Jesus. His insistence was also rewarded in the second half, in which he got the fourth and fifth goal for his team, the third and the fourth from a private account. A poker that had the invaluable collaboration of De Bruyne, who gave City 5-1 to 9 after an excellent combination move that put the tie to the game.