Antoine Semenyo has certainly hit the ground running since arriving in Manchester.<\/p>\n
Pep Guardiola\u2019s side paid \u00a362m for the 26-year-old forward, who scored and assisted on his debut against Exeter City in the Emirates FA Cup on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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Now, just three days later, the Ghanaian has impressed again. A J\u00e9r\u00e9my Doku cross, nudged on at the near post by Bernardo Silva, gave the ex-Bournemouth star a simple finish in the 53rd minute of their Carabao Cup semi-final first leg against Newcastle United<\/a> \u2013 and he came close to doubling his tally ten minutes later, though a lengthy VAR suggested that Erling Haaland had impeded Nick Pope\u2019s vision in the buildup.<\/p>\n Rayan Cherki did eventually find that elusive second goal deep inside stoppage time at St James\u2019 Park, although City were left ruing what could prove to be a costly disallowed goal if the Magpies get off to a good start in next month\u2019s second leg at the Etihad.<\/p>\n \u201cThe second goal should have counted by the way,\u201d Semenyo told TV cameras as he trodded off the pitch on Tuesday night, and his sentiment was echoed by teammate Bernardo Silva, who suggested that the decision \u201clooks ridiculous\u201d.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n But despite his grievances with the officials, Semenyo revealed that he is \u201cenjoying every moment\u201d of his time at Manchester City, hailing his teammates who \u201chave helped me with my confidence and they\u2019ve made me feel welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe whole environment here is perfect,\u201d the forward explained.<\/p>\n Things could yet get even better for Semenyo and his new teammates, as they turn their attention to Saturday\u2019s trip across Manchester to face the Red Devils at Old Trafford. Pep Guardiola\u2019s men will smell blood, relishing an opportunity to close the six-point gap to Arsenal by running riot against Manchester United in the first game of Michael Carrick\u2019s interim spell as head coach<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antoine Semenyo has certainly hit the ground running since arriving in Manchester. Pep Guardiola\u2019s side paid \u00a362m for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[103396,498,126456,49,48,295,75832,171730,75836,47660,2680,8668,94747,21083,95453,561,82],"class_list":["post-407837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-antoine-semenyo","tag-arsenal","tag-bernardo-silva","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-erling-haaland","tag-exeter-city","tag-jeremy-doku","tag-man-city","tag-manchester-united","tag-newcastle-united","tag-nick-pope","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-rayan-cherki","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}