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37 mins: Cherki has a bad first touch. I repeat, we have witnessed a mildly disappointing first touch from Rayan Cherki.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n 35 mins: Cherki goes on a 70-yard run into the area before trying to tee up Haaland, but the striker went to the far post rather than the near and Burnley<\/a> clear. Then Bernardo Silva taps back to Ait-Nouri, who has little time but for all that it\u2019s a fine chance, which he profoundly wastes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 32 mins: He\u2019s OK, and play resumes with a City corner, which Tchaouna clears.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 31 mins: Dubravka is down, and Burnley\u2019s physios run on and look earnestly at his right knee.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.31 EDT<\/p>\n 29 mins: Then Burnley<\/a> break, Tchaouna finds a pass through to Flemming, but his first touch is not great and his second is wild, a left-foot shot, taken as Khusanov slides in, that sent the ball extraordinarily high.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 28 mins: Save! After two superb quickfire exchanges of passes on the edge of the area, Cherki involved in both, the ball is laid off to O\u2019Reilly, whose shot from the edge of the area is pushed away.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 27 mins: And back to slow passing from City. This is just remorseless domination.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 25 mins: The corner is sent beyond the far post, where O\u2019Reilly heads goalwards. Dubravka is there and it has no chance of going in, but it\u2019s another shot on target.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 24 mins: They do end all that possession with a shot, though. Bernardo Silva with it, and it deflects wide.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 23 mins: City have controlled the last few minutes. They\u2019re in no hurry whatsoever, the game being played at walking pace.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.24 EDT<\/p>\n 20 mins: Another blocked City shot, and this time it\u2019s Bernardo Silva doing the shooting and Haaland doing the accidental blocking. Plus, he\u2019s offside..<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 19 mins: Another Cherki effort, the Frenchman picked out on the right of the area by Bernardo Silva and cutting inside, but his shot hits a defender.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 16 mins: Burnley<\/a> should score! It\u2019s a lovely pass from Walker to Flemming, who checks rather than continuing into the box, delays his shot, delays it a bit more, notices Donnarumma falling over, and then shanks his shot feebly wide.<\/p>\n Zian Flemming has a great chance for Burnley to equalise. Photograph: Martin Rickett\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.26 EDT<\/p>\n 15 mins: A nice, fluent move from City, featuring a particularly neat Haaland flick, ends with things nearly but not quite opening up for Cherki.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 13 mins: A few minutes without anyone nearly scoring, after an absurd opening 10 minutes. \u201cI have something of a soft spot for Burnley<\/a>,\u201d admits Hasan. \u201cIs it because they\u2019re a team with genuine footballing pedigree? Is it because they deserve better than the seemingly eternal no-man\u2019s land of being too weak for top tier but too good for second tier football? Is it because they have a disgustingly handsome manager? Well partly yes to all, but mainly it would have been nice if all three promoted sides had been able to swim instead of sink this time, especially after last season\u2019s new fish all went back on the same shuttle bus in May. So I\u2019m hoping against hope for a proper plot twist tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 11 mins: \u201cI keep reading that City will go top if when they win tonight,\u201d notes Justin Kavanagh. \u201cBut there\u2019s just one goal between them and Arsenal in the Goal Difference column. So what if it\u2019s 0-1 to City tonight?\u201d They are, as I type, level on points and on goal difference, but City have scored three more goals. So, they\u2019re top.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8 mins: And now City nearly double their lead! Really, this is ridiculous. Haaland is in the area and in space again, but his shot hits a defender\u2019s leg and goes over.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 8 mins: Burnley<\/a> nearly equalise within seconds of conceding, Hartman\u2019s lovely touch nearly setting him up, but Khusanov throws himself in the way of the ball.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 7 mins: It was a classy route one goal, really: a longish ball out of defence is brought down well by Doku, who turns, sees Haaland setting off between the centre-backs, and has a fairly simple job to set him free.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Burnley 0-1 Manchester City (Haaland, 5 mins)<\/p>\n Now City do score! Haaland, released by Doku, runs clear of the defence, draws the keeper, and chips over his legs and into the net!<\/p>\n Too easy for Erling Haaland as Man City go in front. Photograph: Carl Recine\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.11 EDT<\/p>\n 4 mins: Now City hit the post! Bernardo Silva gets to the byline, turns and passes to Semenyo, who passes on to Cherki, who has a phenomenal chance to put City ahead, but Dubravka somehow fingertips his shot onto the woodwork!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 3 mins: Save! The first shot on target of the game comes from Burnley<\/a>, for whom Anthony cuts inside Nunes and sends a curler towards the far post, which Donnarumma pushes away.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 3 mins: Bernardo Silva runs towards the penalty area, and given that nobody seems inclined to challenge him he keeps going into the area, and he ends up with an excellent shooting chance. But all those defenders who didn\u2019t challenge him had to be somewhere, and that turned out to be in the way of his shot.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 1 min: Scott Parker has put on a grey top over his grey sweater. I think this calls his coaching credentials into question: can you be inspired by a man who seems obsessed with the colour grey?<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 1 min: Peeeep! City get the ball rolling.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Out come the teams! Can Burnley<\/a> do Arsenal the biggest possible favour tonight, or are City going top and the Clarets down? It\u2019s almost time to find out!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Just Rayan Cherki doing an outrageously ostentatious warm-up no-look pass*.<\/p>\n Manchester City’s Rayan Cherki during the warm up before the match at Burnley. Photograph: Scott Heppell\/Reuters<\/p>\n * Or at least that\u2019s what it looks like, it\u2019s just a photograph.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Scott Parker has an extremely brief chat. Important sartorial update: he\u2019s gone with a grey cableknit sweater tonight, rather than a cardigan.<\/p>\n double quotation markThere ain\u2019t no time to look in the future or look in the past. There\u2019s a huge challenge tonight in front of the cameras and we\u2019re representing a badge and they\u2019re representing themselves. That\u2019s the main challenge really.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Pep Guardiola has a chat with Sky Sports. He says he expects from Burnley \u201ccrosses, crosses, always crosses\u201d. Interesting, given that Burnley are 20th in the Premier League this season on average number of crosses per game, and 61 of their crosses have been classified as key passes so far this season, more only than Sunderland and way behind Manchester City\u2019s 79. Anyway, here\u2019s a snippet of Guardiola:<\/p>\n double quotation markYou have to adapt. Huge respect for Burnley, of course. In the Premier League every game you have to do the proper, proper thing. Six games left, we have the opportunity to try to win the three points.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Pep Guardiola had promised changes tonight, but in the end there\u2019s only one and that has been forced on him by Rodri\u2019s injury. So Rayan A\u00eft-Nouri comes in, which means Nico O\u2019Reilly moves into midfield.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>The teams!<\/p>\n Tonight\u2019s lineups are in, and are here:<\/p>\n Burnley: Dubravka; Walker, Ekdal, Humphreys, Esteve, Hartman; Tchaouna, Ward-Prowse, Laurent, Anthony; Flemming. Subs: Broja, Edwards, Foster, Florentino, Lucas Pires, Tresor, Ugochukwu, Weiss, Worrall. Share<\/a><\/p>\n Pre-match reading: Here\u2019s Oliver Hopkins of Opta Analyst on the wonderful Bernardo Silva, who is leaving City at the end of the season and will be missed.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Preamble<\/p>\n
Manchester City: Donnarumma; Matheus Nunes, Khusanov, Guehi, Ait-Nouri; Bernardo Silva, O\u2019Reilly; Semenyo, Cherki, Doku; Haaland. Subs: Ake, Foden, Nico Gonzalez, Kovacic, Omar Marmoush, Savinho, Reijnders, Stones, Trafford.
Referee: Andy Madley.
VAR: Stuart Attwell.<\/p>\n