"Pep Guardiola's side dominated from the off, squandering two chances inside the opening three minutes. Savinho first squared for Jeremy Doku, who failed to make clean contact, before Erling Haaland glanced a header just wide moments later. Still, it took only 17 minutes for City to take the lead, as Rico Lewis picked out Haaland with a superb cut-back pass on the edge of the six-yard-box, and the Norwegian made no mistake from close range."
"Villarreal's best opening of the half came through Pape Gueye, who saw a thumping effort fly narrowly wide before Bernardo Silva doubled City's advantage five minutes before the break, planting a clinical header past Luiz Junior off Savinho's set-up. Savinho continued his dazzling performance as he came close to adding a third, dancing through the box before forcing Junior into a low, diving save. City then received a huge let-off in the closing stages as the hosts squandered a number of chances."
Manchester City defeated Villarreal 2-0 at Estadio de la Ceramica in the Champions League. Rico Lewis supplied a superb cut-back for Erling Haaland to open the scoring after 17 minutes, and Bernardo Silva added a second with a clinical header five minutes before halftime. Villarreal created openings through Pape Gueye and Savinho, who forced saves and threatened throughout, but failed to convert several late chances including efforts from Nicolas Pepe and a stoppage-time shot off the post by Tani Oluwaseyi. Haaland has now scored in nine consecutive matches, and City move to fifth in the standings on seven points; Villarreal remain winless.
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