Manchester City’s Statement Win Over Bournemouth: Does This Triumph Seal Their Champions League Fate?
But the controversies of that particular moment were briefly forgotten two minutes later, as City substitute Nico Gonzalez stepped towards the touchline and the home fans rose to applaud the departing Kevin De Bruyne, whose final appearance at the Etihad thus came to its end.
The Cherries will have surely seen their chance to get back into the contest, being a man up, but Cook soon dashed those hopes with a flying tackle that caught Gonzalez on the ankle and warranted another straight red card.
Minute 83 produced yet another emotional moment for the home crowd. In a bid to establish more control over the flow of the game, Guardiola withdrew Haaland from the game – the time for Rodri to make his return from a season-wrecking ACL injury had come.
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