Manchester City blast notion of a wobble as Southampton brushed aside via IrishTimesSport
Southampton blinked into the sunlight. Moments earlier, they had been inches from taking the lead, the width of the far post standing in the way of. Now they had it all to do. Armstrong’s chance followed a sharp run on to an excellent Oriol Romeu through-ball and he pulled his shot past Steffen and towards the far corner. The calculations were only marginally awry.
Southampton deserved the equaliser in first-half stoppage time for their positivity, as much as anything else. Withand Adam Armstrong setting the tempo from the front, they pressed high and Livramento was a threat when he drove forward from right back. Adam Armstrong had snatched at a presentable shooting chance on 24 minutes and it was his namesake,, who sparked the move for 1-1, although the goal was coloured by extreme good fortune.
blasted the ball out of the stadium in frustration. His team had been so close to going 2-0 up in the 27th minute when João Cancelo beat Livramento to cross for Gündogan only for his first-time effort to come back off the post. Rodri also whistled a shot wide from distance.was momentarily scrambled by the intensity of it all.
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