The UEFA Player of the Year award is set to honor the outstanding achievements in European football from the previous season.
Browsing: De Bruyne
The reigning Champions League winners are gearing up for their first-ever Super Cup match in Greece against a Sevilla side who won a record-extending seventh Europa League title last season.
A game which Pep Guardiola’s side had bossed in the first half exploded into life after the break with the stand-out moment being Salah’s weaving effort, of which Lionel Messi would have been proud.
The game in Seville was decided by a Thorgan Hazard scorcher from distance, although goalkeeper Rui Patricio – on the verge of a move to Roma – could perhaps have done better after taking a step the wrong way.
Pep Guardiola’s side have won their last 17 matches across all competitions, including 12 in the league to move 10 points clear at the top of the table and 22 points above this afternoon’s hosts, who sit 10th.
Pep Guardiola’s men had scored more than twice in a league game just once since their opening match of the season, but were 3-0 up by half-time thanks to goals from Ilkay Gundogan, Phil Foden and Kevin De Bruyne.
The winger fired the hosts into a sixth-minute lead from a flowing move which would encapsulate City’s performance against woeful Burnley, who would go on to their fourth successive 5-0 defeat at the Etihad.
The match’s two goals, a Mohamed Salah penalty kick for Liverpool and a fine turn and finish from Gabriel Jesus for Manchester City, came in a pulsating opening 45 minutes.
De Bruyne, known as “the Belgian Pele” in his homeland, did not join up with the rest of the squad when they assembled in Belgium on Tuesday to prepare for matches against Denmark in Copenhagen on Saturday and then Iceland in Brussels next Tuesday.
This was in Euro 2020 qualifying match on Monday.
It turned out to be the story of the game: Belgium created chances only to see Howard stop everything thrown at him