{"id":15635,"date":"2023-09-27T22:51:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T22:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15635"},"modified":"2023-09-27T22:51:08","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T22:51:08","slug":"manchester-city-knocked-out-of-league-cup-by-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15635","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City Knocked Out Of League Cup By Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/punchng.com\/author\/agencyreport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Agency Report<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Manchester City crashed out of the League Cup with a 1-0 defeat at Newcastle on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Alexander Isak scored the only goal at St. James\u2019 Park on 50 minutes as last season\u2019s finalists progressed to the last 16.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">City won the treble of the Champions League, Premier League, and FA Cup last season, but any dream of surpassing that feat with an unprecedented quadruple was swiftly brought to an end.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">City coach Pep Guardiola made eight changes from the side that beat Nottingham Forest 2-0 on Saturday and lacked the cutting edge offered by Erling Haaland, who stayed on the bench for the full 90 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Eddie Howe also rang the changes from an 8-0 thrashing of Sheffield United at the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But it was not until the Newcastle boss introduced Anthony Gordon and Bruno Guimaraes at half-time that the hosts took control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Isak had the simple task of slotting home at the far post after a burst from Joelinton opened up the City defence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chelsea prevented the crisis at Stamford Bridge deepening as Nicolas Jackson\u2019s goal beat Brighton 1-0.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Senegalese\u2019s wastefulness in front of goal has been partly to blame for the Blues\u2019 return of one win in their opening six Premier League games under Mauricio Pochettino.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But Jackson coolly slotted home from the impressive Cole Palmer\u2019s pass on 50 minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">AFP<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City crashed out of the League Cup with a 1-0 defeat at Newcastle on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15636,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7687,1477,6910],"class_list":["post-15635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-league-cup","tag-manchester-city","tag-newcastle-united"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15637,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15635\/revisions\/15637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}