Viktor Gyokeres’s hat trick led Sporting CP to a Champions League demolition of Manchester City, 4-1, in Ruben Amorim’s last home game.
Amorim-King’s City out to rape-and-pillage is here on account of his mastering of the long-proposed more-realistic rival, Manchester United against Pep Guardiola’s charges.
In a wholly unanticipated start of play, City bodied Foden, opened by driving his ball across to Franco Israel at the near post after the finish to Hidemasa Morita near the edge of the Sporting box.
However, Gyokeres caught the City defense napping and with a daring lob past the on-rushing Ederson-which marked his 21st by now-goal.
Coming back from half-time, City denuded-by almost-unleashing their soaked midfield-a superb run and shot by Maximiliano Araujo almost immediately after the kick-off with Gyokeres extending their lead after drilling home a penalty when Josko Gvardiol fouled Francisco Trincao down a dark lane.
Erling Haaland tried to rescue City, missing a penalty for Soosmane Diomande’s handball in the 74th minute by hitting the base of the bar; Gyokeres struck for his hat trick by netting, the third penalty of the night, after Matheus Nunes-a former favorite-Sporting man fouled.
Amorim arrives at Old Trafford on November 11 with Sporting in a fantastic position in the Champions League group stage; the Lisbon side boast an impressive total of 10 points after 4 games.
City’s first competition defeat this season, their third competitive defeat in a row, puts them on 7 points.
Data Debrief: Three for Gyokeres, three against City
Gyokeres is only the second Sporting player since Antonio Oliveira scored against Dinamo Zagreb in 1982 to produce a hat trick in the European Cup/Champions League. He is the first player to net a treble against City in the competition since Christopher Nkunku for RB Leipzig in 2021.
Thus far, down in the EFL Cup against Tottenham and away at Bournemouth last Saturday, City is, therefore, on an unprecedented three-match losing streak, their first since between May and August of 2021. They lost three matches in a row within the same season last time in April of 2018.
It is also only the third instance in which a Guardiola team has conceded four goals in a Champions League match, the last coming with a 4-0 defeat against Real Madrid while in charge of Bayern Munich in April 2014, and again against Barcelona with City in October 2016.
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