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Author: Michael James
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Week 164 – May 6th – Manchester City v Leeds United
Manchester City 2 Leeds United 1 – HT 2-0
Gündogan (19′, 27′) Rodrigo (85′)
Assists –
Mahrez (19′, 27′)
Not the team you want to face for your 1st game in charged and trying to avoid relegation.
Manchester City moved four points clear at the top of the Premier League by surviving a late scare to beat a Leeds side playing under new manager Sam Allardyce for the first time.
Two fine first-half goals by Ilkay Gundogan had done the damage for City, who appeared utterly dominant as they headed towards their 10th straight league win.
Gundogan’s first neat finish, which came after Riyad Mahrez found him in space on the edge of the area, was into the bottom left-hand corner of Joel Robles’ goal.
His second, again with Mahrez the provider, was identical apart from that he found the opposite corner of the net.
City were in full control but could not find a third goal to finish Leeds off after the break. Even Erling Haaland, for once, failed to score – his best effort came back off the post.
Their best chance to wrap the game up came with six minutes to go, when Pascal Struijk fouled Phil Foden inside the area and referee Andrew Madley pointed to the spot.
Regular penalty-taker Haaland passed up the chance to take it and add to his 51-goal tally for the season, but saw Gundogan miss out on a hat-trick when he sent his effort against the post.
That gave Leeds hope and, only 58 seconds later, they were somehow back in the game. Manuel Akanji failed to deal with a long ball and substitute Rodrigo beat Ederson with a low finish.
Their noisy supporters roared them forward in search of an unlikely equaliser but City were not in the mood to let the three points slip.
Considering who we were playing, to only lose 2-1, was a result, but at the end of the day, still no points and a goal on to the goal difference.
I can’t see anything other than relegation now, I don’t see Sam producing a miracle.
League position 17th after 35 games – After 35 games last season, Leeds were 16th.
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Week 164 – May 6th – Coronation
Today we were at Claire’s dad to watch the Coronation of King Charles III, for those under 70 years old, this would be the first one we have seen.
I didn’t realise until made on commentary that it also rained on the Queen Coronation back in 1952.
You can always count on the British weather, but as always we carry on and pulled of an amazing event.
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Week 164 – May 5th – Covid 19 over
Well not quite.
The WHO today officially announced the pandemic over regarding Covid 19, though still saying it’s with us for ever.
Who would have thought back in January 2020, what an impact was about to happen on the world?
I still think it came out of a Chinese lab, but we will never know.
Stay safe out there.
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Week 164 – May 5th – DBS check results
Wow that was quick, it said would take 10 days to process the application.
Less than 3 hours later, I receive an email and everything was OK and I’m good to go.
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Week 164 – May 5th – DBS check
This morning I did a new DBS check, something that should have been simple, turned into a bit of a shambles as the photo app wouldn’t read the passport.
In the end I had to do it manually, but thankfully that went through all OK.
Now just to wait, approx 10 days.
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Week 164 – May 3rd – New plants looking good
Just a picture of the new plants that we had potted recently, looking good. Plus the red robin still going strong.
As you can see the bench is still covered because we have had hardly any decent weather.
New plants looking good and the red robin at the back too. -
Week 164 – May 3rd – Sam Allardyce
What is going on at Leeds United, how can Sam Allardyce do anything with four games left in the season?
He’s replaced Javi Gracia after just 10 weeks in charge, the second shortest manager rein in the premiership history.
I can’t see us staying up now, especially with the goal difference and struggling to score.
I hope I’m proved wrong.
