{"id":913231,"date":"2026-10-02T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913231\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T08:12:09","slug":"manchester-city-face-appeal-deadline-nations-league-news-and-more-football-live-manchester-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/913231\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City face appeal deadline, Nations League news and more: football \u2013 live | Manchester City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key events<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Nations League: Jorge Jesus guided Portugal to an impressive 4-2 win in Denmark in the first game since Cristiano Ronaldo had walked away from the squad over concerns about his playing time. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/oct\/01\/cristiano-ronaldos-portugal-walkout-divides-a-nation-as-jorge-jesus-asserts-control\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ronaldo left camp<\/a> after an apparent rift with Jesus having been left on the bench for last Sunday\u2019s win in Norway. Jo\u00e3o F\u00e9lix was again on the scoresheet for Portugal as his late strike sealed the points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">J\u00fcrgen Klopp won his first match in charge of Germany at the third attempt as Florian Wirtz\u2019s second-half goal helped secure a 2-0 win over Serbia in Munich. After losing to Greece on Sunday, Klopp had to field <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/oct\/01\/jurgen-klopp-germany-team-not-white-enough-disgusted-claims\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">frankly ridiculous questions<\/a> about the diversity of Germany\u2019s national team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Greece almost pulled off another shock win last night but surrendered a two-goal lead to draw with the Netherlands in Thessaloniki. Virgil van Dijk and Tijjani Reijnders rescued things for Xavi, who admitted he was at fault after a poor first half. \u201cMaybe I made things unclear for the players by making too many changes,\u201d said the Netherlands boss.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject=Manchester City face appeal deadline, Nations League news and more: football \u2013 live&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/oct\/02\/manchester-city-appeal-deadline-nations-league-news-and-more-football-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6abf622b8f08c480d6f6474d#block-6abf622b8f08c480d6f6474d\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Nations League: Let\u2019s have a look back at last night\u2019s action, eh? Wales notched their first win of the campaign by coming from behind to beat Norway in Cardiff. With the score level at 1-1 at the break, Torbj\u00f8rn Heggem was sent off 17 seconds into the second half and Neco Williams scored the winner from the resulting free-kick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">A lot of eyes were on Manchester City\u2019s Erling Haaland, who was kept at arm\u2019s length by Wales and serenaded by chants of \u201cYou\u2019re just a shit Kieffer Moore\u201d from home supporters. Martin \u00d8degaard, who captained Norway to the World Cup quarters in the summer, described the result as the \u201cfirst punch in the face for a long time\u201d while Wales manager Craig Bellamy was happy to respond to the criticism he has received of late:<\/p>\n<p>double quotation markLook, I am a strong person, I think we all are, but it\u2019s the people around me I\u2019m conscious of. It\u2019s just society. What are we? Eight prime ministers in the space of 11 years? It\u2019s nuts &#8230; We\u2019re such a small country, why can\u2019t we have each other\u2019s backs? Why don\u2019t we look after each other more? The others can go at us. We\u2019re too quick [to criticise].<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">In Dublin, the Republic of Ireland\u2019s 2-2 draw with Austria was stopped twice in the first half after pro-Palestine protests against their matches with Israel. The Ireland squad were under pressure to boycott last Sunday\u2019s game against Israel in Hungary, which they won 3-0, and face them again in Dublin this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">With Ireland 1-0 up after Troy Parrott\u2019s fine solo goal, tennis balls with Palestine flags were thrown on to the pitch in the 20th minute before a man appearing to be carrying a Palestine flag invaded the pitch in the 35th minute. Austria came from 2-0 down in the second half to recover a draw.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject=Manchester City face appeal deadline, Nations League news and more: football \u2013 live&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/oct\/02\/manchester-city-appeal-deadline-nations-league-news-and-more-football-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6abf5f2d8f0881a4fbc3c670#block-6abf5f2d8f0881a4fbc3c670\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Updated at\u00a003.51 EDT<\/p>\n<p>Preamble<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Hello and welcome to Friday\u2019s football blog, where we\u2019ll keep you up to date with the latest news on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/manchestercity\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City<\/a> case plus reaction and previews of the men\u2019s Nations League action. Man City are expected to lodge an appeal before the deadline today against the guilty verdict on over 100 charges of breaching financial rules handed down to them by the Premier League on Tuesday. The UK government was yesterday forced to clarify comments the prime minster, Andy Burnham, made the previous day about his \u201cconcern\u201d for City losing their Abu Dhabi owners after the verdict \u2013 a Downing Street spokesperson emphasised that: \u201cIf wrongdoing is established those responsible should face the appropriate consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Elsewhere, Thomas Tuchel will be speaking from Croatia ahead of England\u2019s Nations League fixture tomorrow in Rijeka. The game is due to be taking place behind closed doors as punishment for Croatian fans\u2019 behaviour, although the stadium is expected to be largely full of local schoolchildren (plus 100-odd England fans) \u2013 that\u2019ll be an interesting atmosphere. Scotland are also in action tomorrow in North Macedonia with Sebastien Pocognoli looking for his first win in charge. Tonight sees France take on Italy in Paris and Northern Ireland face Ukraine in Slovakia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Last night, there was a 2-1 win for Wales against 10-man Norway in Cardiff and protests twice halted the Republic of Ireland\u2019s 2-2 draw with Austria in Dublin. J\u00fcrgen Klopp also got off the mark as Germany manager against Serbia and Cristiano Ronaldo watched on from home (or not) as Portugal won in Denmark without him. In the Women\u2019s Champions League, Manchester City earned a point against Real Madrid. They host Arsenal on Sunday in the WSL\u2019s standout weekend fixture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">You can get in touch with your comments throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:?subject=Manchester City face appeal deadline, Nations League news and more: football \u2013 live&amp;body=https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2026\/oct\/02\/manchester-city-appeal-deadline-nations-league-news-and-more-football-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-6abd1c248f0868701aa73108#block-6abd1c248f0868701aa73108\" type=\"button\" class=\"dcr-10ju04u\">Share<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key events Nations League: Jorge Jesus guided Portugal to an impressive 4-2 win in Denmark in the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":913232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-913231","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\/913231","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=913231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/913232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}