Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: December 14, 2023, 08:03 IST
UEFA Champions League: Manchester City and Red Star Belgrade (AP)
Manchester City stretched their unbeaten run in Europe to twenty video games with a 3-2 UEFA Champions League victory over Red Star Belgrade.
Manchester City academy graduate Micah Hamilton scored on his senior debut because the facet stretched their unbeaten run in Europe to twenty video games with a 3-2 Champions League victory over Red Star Belgrade in their group-stage finale on Wednesday.
Oscar Bobb additionally netted his first objective for the senior facet and Kalvin Phillips scored from a penalty for City, who completed with an ideal 18 factors from six group video games for the primary time.
They joined Liverpool as the one different English workforce in historical past to win all six Champions League group video games.
Hwang In-beom and Aleksandar Katai netted late second-half objectives on the Rajko Mitic Stadium for Belgrade, who completed backside of Group G with one level.
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The 20-year-old Hamilton, who joined City on the age of 9, netted in the nineteenth minute when he minimize round a Belgrade defender then fired from a decent angle into the far nook.
Bobb, who can be 20, doubled the lead in the 62nd minute when he dribbled on the Red Star defence earlier than tucking a shot into the underside nook.
In a recreation that meant little to City and nothing to the Group G standings, supervisor Pep Guardiola made 9 adjustments to the facet who performed in the 2-1 Premier League win at Luton Town on Sunday. City’s league-leading scorer Erling Haaland didn’t play at Luton attributable to a foot damage and didn’t journey to Belgrade.
But on a terrific evening for City’s academy programme, younger strikers Hamilton and Bobb crammed in admirably in Haaland’s absence.
Outclassed in the primary half, Belgrade made issues fascinating in the second to the delight of the raucous crowd who barely stopped singing all evening.
City keeper Stefan Ortego was compelled to make two terrific saves shortly after the break earlier than Hwang pulled one again in the 76th minute and Katai scored in damage time.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed – AFP)
