Aston Villa vs Man City

Man City travel to Villa Park looking to continue their unbeaten start to the season.

Haaland does superbly to control the ball inside the box and flick it into the path of De Bruyne. The Belgian has to snatch at his poked finish and it flies just past the far post. The Blues were starting to completely dominate but they passed up a few chances to double their lead. He would have been offside but the goalkeeper wasn't to know. Riyad Mahrez drags a right-footed shot wide when he really should be hitting the target. Steven Gerrard has criticised referee Simon Hooper for blowing his whistle early rather than allowing play to go on and then consulting the VAR. "The beauty about this goal is the delivery. He continued but at the end he could not continue. We will see, I didn't speak with the doctors." We were not precise in our final third touches and our simple things, especially in the first half. [Pep Guardiola](https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/all-about/pep-guardiola)'s side will be looking to continue their impressive start to the season, having won four and drawn one of their opening five games. City's opponents, Villa, have not enjoyed an ideal start to the campaign.

Leon Bailey's late goal gave Aston Villa a surprise point as Manchester City's finish was a bit off in a 1-1 draw at Villa Park on Saturday.

City had all of the game’s big chances but Villa only let one go over its line and Bailey buried his 3/4 chance (It was more than a 1/2 chance but certainly not a promise). Everyone understands we were in a tough situation but he just wanted us to bring the best version of ourselves on the pitch and we did that today.” The hosts have looked vulnerable against most teams but Tyrone Mings played well against Arsenal and Ollie Watkins is proving a relentless attacker. Sometimes you’ve got to take a little bit of technical, the nice bits of your team away, to put in some real blood and thunder. But we were just not precise enough in the crosses, we missed a few situations and that’s why we could not score. We were not precise in our final third touches and our simple things, especially in the first half. “A lot of credit to [Steven] Gerrard because going into a big important game he didn’t let anyone feel pressure and that was important for the team. City had 73 percent of the ball and took 13 of the game’s 16 shots but Villa stayed tight. “Listen I’ve had to tweak a few things and look at myself behind the scenes. There were a lot fewer of the latter on Saturday, as Emiliano Martinez and Tyrone Mings kept the defending unit as compact as possible and ready to counter attack. City had all four of the game’s “big chances” but only scored once. Villa shows well: The goal came out of nothing, and so, in a sense, did the performance.

Steven Gerrard has bemoaned a mistake from the referee that cost Aston Villa a potential win over Manchester City on Saturday.

‘Why blow the whistle? In addtion, Newcastle had a goal disallowed after Joe Willock was adjudged to have fouled Crystal Palace keeper Vicente Guaita, with the VAR officials missing the fact that Palace defender Tyrick Mitchell had pushed Willock into Guaita. It comes after a day of numerous VAR controversies in the Premier League, where West Ham had a late equaliser chalked off against Chelsea after Edouard Mendy was deemed to have been fouled in the build-up. Because of the introduction of VAR, linesman are meant to delay flagging for offside in the eventuality that the play leads to a goal and they have made the incorrect call, but that procedure was not carried out in this instance. And because the referee blew his whistle before Coutinho got his shot away, VAR could not check the goal and overturn the on-pitch officials. [Aston Villa](https://metro.co.uk/tag/aston-villa-fc/?ico=auto_link_sport_P1_LNK1) a potential win over [Manchester City](https://metro.co.uk/tag/manchester-city-fc/?ico=auto_link_sport_P1_LNK2) on Saturday.

Aston Villa face Manchester City in the 2022-23 Premier League - here's everything you need to know.

Luiz's goal against Arsenal might tempt Gerrard to offer the Brazilian a start over John McGinn. It can be streamed online on fuboTV. Steven Gerrard's side come into the game on the back of a 2-1 defeat at Arsenal as Douglas Luiz's goal direct from a corner provided little more than a consolation.

Get a report of the Aston Villa vs. Manchester City 2022-23 English Premier League football match.

We had chances to score a second when the game was in our hands but we didn't." "They put an incredible amount of effort into the game, followed instructions. "We conceded just one goal from one shot on target in 90 minutes. [Philippe Coutinho](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/130372/Philippe-Coutinho) and the [Brazil](/soccer/team?id=205) midfielder had the ball in the net in the 80th minute, only to see the flag raised for offside. [Ollie Watkins](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/198825/Ollie-Watkins) was sent through on goal in the 38th minute and fired a shot wide of [Ederson](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/176948/Ederson)'s left-hand post after a tackle from [John Stones](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/157974/John-Stones). [Erling Haaland](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/253989/Erling-Haaland) kept up his scoring streak but [Manchester City](/soccer/team?id=382) were held to a frustrating 1-1 draw by [Aston Villa](/soccer/team?id=362) on Saturday thanks to a goal from [Leon Bailey](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/224809/Leon-Bailey).

An unusually sloppy performance, despite dominating possession and creating some half-decent chances. De Bruyne and Haaland brilliance that saw City take the ...

It was Haaland put City ahead, but Villa clawed back an equaliser through Leon Bailey. De Bruyne and Haaland brilliance that saw City take the lead, and an iffy substitution that came just a minute before the Villa equaliser. Manchester City