Manchester City will see the knockout stages of this 2025 club World Cup. Skyblues rolled up on Al-Ain (water) with 6-0 success and won their ticket from this second day of the group stage, even if there will be a nice shock against Juventus during the last day for first place in the group, the Turinois also displaying two victories. During the night from Sunday to Monday, it was a real offensive festival of the Erling Haaland band.
And it was also, for Rayan Cherki, the opportunity to highlight himself after a somewhat complicated first, and the first criticisms on the other side of the Channel. Standing against the Wydad, the former Olympique Lyonnais was on the bench last night, and he had to wait until the 73rd minute for Bernardo Silva to give him his place. And as soon as he walked the meadow, he made differences, even offering himself the sixth and last goal of the evening with a beautiful crossing from the outside of the surface. His first goal under his new colors. We felt it very comfortable and already like a fish in the water in this Mancunian offensive animation.
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Enough to enhance the English press, which was just waiting for that. “He showed signs indicating that he is more comfortable in the team, and he opened his counter”indicates for example the Manchester Evening Newswhich assigns him a pretty 7/10 for her entry. “Cherki shows an overview of what he can do in the future”indicates for his part The Sunwhich highlights the figure of French. THE Daily Mail Title also on Cherki's goal in his meeting of the meeting, and on social networks, praise for the offensive midfielder for the Blues were numerous.
It must be said that in 17 minutes on the lawn, in addition to one goal, Cherki touched the ball 27 times, distributed 18 assists (90% success), won 4 duels, succeeded 2 dribbles and even recovered 2 balloons. “We know the potential of Rayan Cherki. I see a lot of things in training and I say to myself, “What a player!”. But as a new player, as is the case for Tijjani Reijnders, for Marcus Bettinelli, for Rayan Aït-Nouri, they need a little time, to know us, to know what we want “said Pep Guardiola after the match, seduced and excited by Cherki's performance. It remains to be seen if this great performance will allow him to convince the Catalan coach to align him from the start for this first match against a big fish Thursday evening at 9 p.m. …
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