{"id":506669,"date":"2026-03-01T04:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506669\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T04:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:34:13","slug":"leeds-0-1-man-city-28-feb-2026-game-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/506669\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds 0-1 Man City (28 Feb, 2026) Game Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Antoine Semenyo<\/a>‘s first-half goal sealed Manchester City<\/a> a hard-fought 1-0 win at Leeds United<\/a> and lifted his side to within two points of Premier League<\/a> leaders Arsenal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Semenyo maintained his impressive goalscoring form since joining City from Bournemouth in January, clinically converting a rare chance for the visitors in stoppage time before the interval.<\/p>\n

City’s fourth straight league win kept the pressure on Arsenal before their home game against derby rivals Chelsea<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“We just need to control what we can control,” Semenyo said, “win our games and see what happens.”<\/p>\n

Leeds, meanwhile, were left to rue a string of missed first-half chances.<\/p>\n

Daniel Farke’s relegation battlers lost for just the third time in 15 league matches, suffering a rare defeat under the Elland Road floodlights, to stay six points above the bottom three.<\/p>\n

Leading Premier League goalscorer Erling Haaland<\/a> was not included in City’s squad after sustaining a minor injury in training, missing out against his boyhood club.<\/p>\n

Haaland’s replacement Rayan Cherki<\/a> was City’s only change following last week’s home win against Newcastle, while Leeds were unchanged after their 1-1 draw at Aston Villa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Antoine Semenyo celebrates after scoring the winner against Leeds.<\/p>\n

Oli SCARFF \/ AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Leeds’ survival fight has gained momentum since Phil Foden’s stoppage-time winner in the reverse fixture at the Etihad Stadium in November, with only two defeats in their following 14 league matches.<\/p>\n

And they should have taken an early lead when Dominic Calvert-Lewin<\/a> steered Brenden Aaronson’s excellent cross wide from in front of goal in the third minute.<\/p>\n

Play was temporarily halted by referee Peter Bankes in the 11th minute to allow City’s Muslim players to break their Ramadan fast before Calvert-Lewin prodded narrowly off-target again, this time from a tight angle.<\/p>\n

City goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma<\/a> held James Justin’s shot and Aaronson was next to fire just wide, from Jayden Bogle’s cross, as Leeds’ intense press won them plenty of possession high up the field.<\/p>\n

The visitors began to hold onto possession and mount pressure of their own 15 minutes before half-time.<\/p>\n

But only after Aaronson had been denied by Donnarumma in a one-on-one following a swift Leeds counter-attack did City create their first noteworthy chance, with Nico O’Reilly’s header well saved by Karl Darlow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

City took the lead in first-half stoppage time. Rayan A\u00eft-Nouri<\/a> raced clear down the left on to Cherki’s superb through-ball and crossed for Semenyo to convert his sixth City goal in 11 appearances in all competitions from four yards.<\/p>\n

Leeds made another fast start to the second period as Matheus Nunes’ last-ditch block thwarted Calvert-Lewin in the box, but City maintained their composure and were soon back in their rhythm.<\/p>\n

Darlow’s flying save kept out Marc Guehi’s header and it was mainly one-way traffic, with Leeds working tirelessly to prevent City carving out clear chances.<\/p>\n

Leeds lifted the home fans with a late flurry and substitute Jaka Bijol<\/a> headed inches wide, but City held on to notch their 18th league win of the season.<\/p>\n

PA and The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antoine Semenyo‘s first-half goal sealed Manchester City a hard-fought 1-0 win at Leeds United and lifted his side…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-506669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506669","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=506669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}