UEFA CL: Foden fires Man City into knockout stage; Olympiakos 0 - 1 Man City
Man City have booked a place in the knockout stage eighth year in a row.
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Man City are through to the last 16 of the Champions League after a narrow win in Greece against Olympiakos.
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Phil Foden’s only strike in the first half sealed the victory as the Premier League maintained their perfect record in Group C winning all their matches despite two games remaining.
John Stones, Ilkay Gundogan, Phil Foden, Benjamin Mendy and Raheem Sterling all return to the starting XI with Kevin De Bruyne and Kyle Walker left out of the matchday squad, while Ferran Torres, Riyad Mahrez and Aymeric Laporte started on the bench.
Fernandinho also joined them among the substitutes after recovering from illness.
City started the game superbly with Rodri almost opening things up with a thunderbolt after a sublime switch of play from Stones to pick out Mendy on the left flank.
He hooked an effort into the area and Olympiakos cleared, but it fell to Rodri who smashed a volley goalwards which went straight at the goalkeeper.
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City kept seeing much of the ball and gave the home side defence a run yet their ability to locate the spaces lacked finishing. They worked for their opening goal but Sa was at his best to deny them the chance. It was a wonderful through ball by Silva for Jesus and the striker's movement was superb as he stayed onside but got in front of his man.
He struck, but Sa was down low and stuck out a leg to see the effort away.
City kept pressuring Olympiacos until Phil Foden gave them the goal. Jesus held the ball up well before slotting down the left-hand side of the area for Sterling. It was then a sumptuous backheel from the captain to find Foden, who swept the ball home first time with real confidence.
The visitors kept the second half alive with Olympiakos not threatening the City defence much. Ederson enjoyed his surrounding with no shots whatsoever from Olympiakos.
Foden almost doubled the advantage in the 71-minute following a Cancelo effort. The Portuguese floated the ball towards the back post but Foden nodded well wide. He arguably should have headed the ball back across the face of goal but the chance went begging.
Man City failed to take their chances but it was a job already done as they qualified for the last 16 for the eighth year in a row.
