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3¹ A pin-point pass found HAALAND and his left foot effort went narrowly wide. 6¹ GOAL!! A poor drive from VINÍCIUS JÚNIOR seemed to hold little difficulty for the Port Vale 'keeper but the ball somehow squirmed over the line. (1-0 Manchester City) 12¹ GOAL!! A thirty yard free-kick was cleverly thundered into the roof of the net by HAALAND. (2-0 Manchester City) 15¹ GOAL!! DE BRUYNE made space for VINÍCIUS JÚNIOR who, after an interchange of passes twenty-five yards out, struck the ball past the 'keeper. (3-0 Manchester City) 23¹ A header by OPENDA at the near post was comfortably collected by the 'keeper. 30¹ A good effort from BELLINGHAM scraped the woodwork. 37¹ UDOGIE booked. 1² VINÍCIUS JÚNIOR poked a simple chance past the lefthand post. 1² HAALAND made space on the left and knocked the ball to DAVIES who rasped the ball over. 7² A poor strike from OPENDA rolled agonisingly wide. 10² FODEN floated the ball to BELLINGHAM who headed it wide. 11² GOAL!! A delightful piece of skill from SAKA gave RÚBEN DIAS space on the right and DE BRUYNE flicked in his pin-point pass. (4-0 Manchester City) 14² A shot from VINÍCIUS JÚNIOR was smothered by the Port Vale 'keeper. 16² The ref cautions HINCAPIÉ for a poor foul. 18² VINÍCIUS JÚNIOR's shot was well saved by the Port Vale 'keeper. 20² BELLINGHAM scuffed a simple chance. 21² VINÍCIUS JÚNIOR shot over. 24² A cross from BARCOLA left OPENDA in lots of space but he scuffed his shot. 29² BENÍTEZ did well to hold onto a wicked strike from DAVIES. 30² VINÍCIUS JÚNIOR hit a right foot shot inches wide from thirty yards out. 32² A right foot effort from BELLINGHAM was forced wide by BENÍTEZ. 40² A good ball from FODEN on the left found BELLINGHAM who mishit his effort just wide.

Manchester City   League position: 3 Home league form: WLXW Overall league form: WLLWXWWX Formation: 3-1-3-3

Line-ups EDERSON Santana 7  1 7½ Walter BENÍTEZ Jude BELLINGHAM 7½ 2 7½ Julian RYERSON GONÇALO Bernardo INÁCIO 6½ 3 6½ Destiny UDOGIE (c)VINÍCIUS José JÚNIOR 7  4 7  Piero HINCAPIÉ(c) Kevin DE BRUYNE 6½ 5 7½ Ben WHITE RODRI 6½ 6 7  Davide FRATTESI RÚBEN Santos DIAS 6½ 7 8½ Mohammed KUDUS (f)Alphonso DAVIES 6  8 6½ Bradley BARCOLA Phil FODEN 6½ 9 7  Loïs OPENDA (p)Erling HAALAND 7  10 6  Thomas MÜLLER Bukayo SAKA 6  11 6½ Leandro TROSSARD(p,f) Lee Avramovic Manager Dean Murphy Jorrel HATO    12    Justin OMOREGIE Maarten VANDEVOORDT    13    Marcel MOSWITZER James McATEE    14    Tommaso MARTINELLI Tyler DIBLING    15    Karim ADEYEMI Archie GRAY    16    Tom ROTHE

Port Vale   League position: 5 Away league form: LXWX Overall league form: LWXWWWLX Formation: 4-1-3-2

Manchester City go through to the next round

Statistics

Manchester City 4 Port Vale 0 (Half-time: 3-0, Attendance: 55,062, Stadium: Etihad Stadium, Referee: Andy Penn 6, TV: highlights) Vinícius Júnior 6¹, Haaland 12¹, Vinícius Júnior 15¹, de Bruyne 11² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession             Udogie 37¹, Hincapié 16² 8 6 9 7 15 13 9 1 12 3 21 4 5 1 50% 50% ¶ Man of the match: Mohammed Kudus ¶