Gianluigi Donnarumma: Could do nothing about Bournemouth’s opener but made superb saves to deny Justin Kluivert’s low effort and Daniel Jebbison’s flicked header. 6<\/p>\n
Rico Lewis: Inverting into midfield from right-back, Lewis got forward and had an early effort saved but lacked quality overall before being taken off. 5<\/p>\n
Abdukodir Khusanov: Missed a challenge on Rayan in the lead-up to Bournemouth’s first goal and could not recover to stop the effort. 5<\/p>\n
Ruben Dias: The new captain was culpable when conceding the opener too, failing to get his head on a long ball over the top. 5<\/p>\n
Josko Gvardiol: Better at left-back or in the centre? Whatever the case, the Croatian was nowhere to be seen for Bournemouth’s goal before popping up to score a cool injury time winner. 7<\/p>\n
Marc Guehi: The England defender played in an unfamiliar holding midfield role but managed to score a late equaliser. With Ayyoub Bouaddi incoming, this experiment might only last one game. 6<\/p>\n
Elliot Anderson: Club record signing Anderson showed glimpses of what he will bring to his new side, covering plenty of ground and often snuffing out the danger. 6<\/p>\n
Antoine Semenyo: Looked bright in pre-season but unable to exert his influence on this game. 5<\/p>\n
Nico O’Reilly: Deployed in the number 10 role, the England international created few opportunities of note and was taken off on the hour mark. 5<\/p>\n
Phil Foden: Bright in the early stages, seeing plenty of the ball and playing a delightful flick for Lewis’ chance but faded away. 5<\/p>\n
Erling Haaland: Sporting a fresh new trim, the Norway striker somehow missed a sitter from a couple of yards out in the first half, while blazing over and scuffing another wide in the second. Has he lost his superpowers after chopping off his blonde locks? 5<\/p>\n
Subs:<\/p>\n
Matheus Nunes (on 56, Lewis): Nothing noteworthy. 5<\/p>\n
Rayan Cherki (on 62, O’Reilly): Came on and changed the game for City. Provided two assists and will now be hoping to start on Friday at Crystal Palace. 8<\/p>\n
Mateo Kovacic (on 62, Anderson): Should he have started in midfield instead of Guehi? 5<\/p>\n
Jack Grealish (on 82, Foden): 5<\/p>\n
Subs not used: Rulli, Marmoush, Gonzalez, Ait-Nouri, Reis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gianluigi Donnarumma: Could do nothing about Bournemouth’s opener but made superb saves to deny Justin Kluivert’s low effort…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-865665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}