{"id":472449,"date":"2023-12-10T12:07:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T16:07:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=472449"},"modified":"2023-12-10T12:07:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T16:07:29","slug":"man-city-makes-a-2-1-comeback-to-leave-luton-empty-handed","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/man-city-makes-a-2-1-comeback-to-leave-luton-empty-handed\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City makes a 2-1 comeback to leave Luton empty-handed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City had to fight their way back from 0-1 down, but managed to beat Luton away 2-1 and keep themselves close to the top.<\/p>\n<p>In the stoppage time of the first half, Luton surprised Manchester City and opened the scoring. Ross Barkley showed great technique in midfield and launched a pass to the left side. Doughty received the ball and passed it to Andros Townsend.<\/p>\n<p>The former Everton and Crystal Palace player crossed with his left foot and found Elijah Adebayo, who headed the ball into the net &#8211; 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>City kicked off the second half on a high note and the heavy pressure paid off in the 62nd minute when they equalized.<\/p>\n<p>Rodri broke into the Luton penalty area. He was stopped, but the ball reached Bernardo Silva, who scored a great goal to make it 1-1.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hitting the target! \ud83c\udfaf<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc52 1-2 \u26aa\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ManCity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ManCity<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FKYQdntLp7\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FKYQdntLp7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manchester City (@ManCity) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCity\/status\/1733880506956075056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Only 3 minutes later Juli\u00e1n Alvarez took the ball away from opponent&#8217;s feet and found pass to Jack Grealish with good pass, who made no mistake from a free position and put his team ahead in the result.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bernardo and Grealish help Man City to a \ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddfc\ud835\ude04 \ud835\uddf2\ud835\ude00\ud835\uddf0\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddfd\ud835\uddf2 at Luton \u2611\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QpiDvGD6JI\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/QpiDvGD6JI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 433 (@433) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/433\/status\/1733879855341596939?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the standings, Manchester City is 4th with 33 points and Luton is in 18th position with 9 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City had to fight their way back from 0-1 down, but managed to beat Luton away 2-1 and keep themselves close to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":472453,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[20865,17183],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[20867,18121],"acf":{"announce":"The Citizens missed their big leader Erling Haaland, but managed to score two goals after the breal","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472455,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472449\/revisions\/472455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472449"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=472449"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=472449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}