Man City vs. Newcastle live score, updates, highlights & lineups from crunch clash as Sterling finds breakthrough

By | May 8, 2022
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ETIHAD STADIUM, MANCHESTER — Raheem Sterling and Aymeric Laporte gave Manchester City a 2-0 first-half lead against Newcastle as the defending Premier League champions looked to go three points clear of Liverpool with three matches to play

Jurgen Klopp’s side were held to a 1-1 draw by Tottenham on Saturday, giving City the chance to open up what could prove to be a decisive advantage in a claustrophobic, relentless race for glory between England’s two leading teams.

All eyes were on how Pep Guardiola’s players responded from their improbable collapse during Wednesday’s Champions League semi-final at Real Madrid. 

They endured some nervy moments, with Chris Wood having a goal disallowed for offside after Sterling nodded a 19th-minute opener. Laporte’s close-range strike after Martin Dubravka failed to hold Ilkay Gundogan’s effort from a Kevin De Bruyne corner allowed Guardiola to breathe easier.

Sporting News is following the match live and providing live score updates and commentary.

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Man City vs. Newcastle live score

  1H 2H Final
Man City 2 — —
Newcastle 0 — —

Goals: 

MCI — Raheem Sterling (Joao Cancelo) — 19th min.

MCI — Aymeric Laporte — 38th min.

Man City vs. Newcastle live updates, highlights from Sunday’s Premier 

54th minute: Now Grealish gives Krafth some trouble at left-back, but Grealish can’t get a shot off. The game is being played at a pace to please a City team 2-0 to the good and Newcastle need to shift that pretty sharpish.

53rd minute: De Bruyne gets down the left, he really is all over this game, but Newcastle are able to hack clear. 

48th minute: Saint-Maximin gets his first look at the new-look City backline, but Fernandinho is there to tidy up.

47th minute: Sterling brings about some mayhem in the Newcastle box, bodies all over the place. His cross is deflected just beyond the far post with Dubravka rooted.

46th minute: Substitution for City and Ruben Dias makes way. The surprise is that veteran midfielder Fernandinho is on at centre-back instead of Nathan Ake – presumably to ensure City keep a right/left foot passing combination at the back. 

Halftime: Newcastle get there after Grealish, Sterling and De Bruyne combine with no little swagger in the final move of the half. Fittingly, the ball ends up with Gundogan before the referee blows. The German playmaker has been exemplary, bringing calm to some early chaos. City are 45 minutes away from going three points clear at the summit. See you shortly!

45th minute: Now Cancelo flashes across goal into that space where Sergio Aguero used to spend a lot of his time. Jesus unable to muscle in on the action this time. Newcastle, having made life a uncomfortable for City for the most part, look like they need half-time.

43rd minute: Newcastle probed forwards after going 2-0 down but City’s second goal seems to have taken the wind out of them in a way that the first didn’t. 

38th minute: GOAL!!!!!! Laporte!!!!!

Most un-Guardiola goal ever? He doesn’t seem to mind. Gundogan wallops a shot from De Brunye’s corner that Dubravka can’t hold. Dias clobbers it at the Newcastle goalie before Laporte does better with the second loose ball.

37th minute: De Bruyne, in the left channel, scoops one over the defence to Sterling, who spins a cross in Jesus’ direction before City’s number nine is blocked off.

34th minute: City zip around some trademark passing triangles but there’s no one there to do the trademark tap-in finish from Zinchenko’s low cross.

33rd minute: What on earth is Gundogan doing marking Saint-Maximin on the counter?!?! Anyway, despite those desperate odds, he City midfielder gamely keeps up with the flying winger, who runs out of pitch and falls over.

32nd minute: Delicious De Bruyne ball – yeah, one of those ones – finds Jesus at the back post but Krafth does well to scramble behind.

30th minute: Guimaraes, who has been typically very good in possession for Newcastle, shows a more agricultural side to his game by carting through Grealish. A very long City attack ends with Gundogan thundering wide from range, at which point the Brazilian is disappointed to see referee Stuart Atwell remembering to book him.

28th minute: City are bang up for this, as you’d expect, but perhaps that’s contributing to them not being at their smooth best. Dias lumps a ball in Sterling’s general direction and Newcastle come away with it. Guardiola flaps his arms in a sort of Big Bird impression.

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25th minute: Cancelo and Sterling – so often together on the City left – are linking up very well down the right. Sterling plays in his teammate to draw a sharp save from Dubravka at his near post. The corner comes to nought.

23rd minute: GOOOAA…no! Wood is offside as he prods home form a corner but is offside. Nevertheless, that’s a let-off for City. Zinchenko did not need to give the corner away in the first place and they looked vulnerable again. Ederson then nearly made a complete hash of the resulting free-kick.

19th minute: GOAL!!!!!! Sterling!!!!!

Relief all around the Etihad Stadium! Gundogan orchestrates matters before flighting a fine ball over the Newcastle defence. Again Cancelo is afforded too much room but this time nods across goal for Sterling to head in.

15th minute: Plenty of people think City’s occasional weakness in front of goal will be solved by the arrival of a big-name striker, but that’s another glorious chance to fall to another member of the back four. Zinchenko crosses to unmarked fellow full-back Cancelo, who blazes wide. Guardiola trudges back to his dugout in a bit of a funk.

14th minute: Grealish overruns a dribble and then misses a backheel. Widespread grumbling. No good for anyone’s nerves.

11th minute Cancelo goes down under close attention from Saint-Maximin and is a touch fortunate to receive the free-kick. Newcastle are certainly taking every opportunity to see how fragile City’s defensive confidence might be post-Madrid.

10th minute: Now City should lead! Aymeric Laporte might have been one of the defenders culpable just then, but he finds himself unmarked from a left-wing corner, only to blaze over.

8th minute: OH! Huge chance for Newcastle! Saint-Maximin gets down the City right and his cross is cleared away from the waiting Joelinton. The visitors find joy down the same flank again but Wood appears to have no idea how much space and time he has, heading tamely at Ederson from close range.

6th minute: He was weirdly off-colour in midweek but De Bruyne is in Roy of the Rovers mode here. He tears through the middle with four Newcaste jerseys in pursuit. Again he finds Grealish, whose pass to the overlapping Zinchenko is under-hit and Dubravka claims the low cross. 

5th minute: De Bruyne curls his effort harmlessly wide of the near post.

4th minute: De Bruyne gets chance to stretch his legs through midfield and plays in Grealish. The England man can’t get  a shot away but possession is recycled and he wins a free-kick on the left corner of the box.

2nd minute: Nervous moments there for the hosts as Laporte mistakenly boots the ball at Gundogan, who then loses his footing to be disposessed on halfway. It’s the sort of counter-attacking situation you’ve seen Pep Guardiola sides punished from before but the danger is snuffed out.

1st minute: Sterling and Grealish line up on the right and left respectively for City, with Jesus through the middle. The Brazil forward immediately gives Dan Burn the hurry up. The champions looking to get out of the blocks quickly.

3 mins from kickoff: The teams are out. The bars – which seemed to be doing a roaring trade in nerve-settling refreshment about 10 minutes ago – have emptied and we’re good to go in front of a full house in east Manchester.

15 mins from kickoff: Having come agonisingly close to a couple of “repaid a chunk of his hefty price tag…” goals in midweek, it’s another big afternoon coming up fo this man.

20 mins from kickoff: Talking of title-race nerves, it could be a weird atmosphere here today. Sporting News made the journey over to the Etihad Stadium from Leeds, where a shared train line meant carriages packed with very merry Newcastle fans. It’s party time up in the north east, with relegation fears long gone and a bright future in prospect under Eddie Howe.

Even allowing for the boost of last night’s result, the mood inside the ground for the majority in sky blue feels pensive. This game is a team with everything to lose against a team with nothing to lose and that could very well inform how things unfold.

35 mins from kickoff: City are out and going through their warmups wearing shirts commemorating Sergio Aguero’s unforgettable title-clinching goal on this ground 10 years ago. It’s the anniversary this week but, after their Madrid travails, I reckon the City faithful would opt for something a bit less dramatic today.

55 mins from kickoff: Chris Wood leads the line for Newcastle, which means Joelinton probably dropping back into midfield for Eddie Howe’s side. Sean Longstaff starts in the engine room, with no Jonjo Shelvey in the matchday squad, while Jamaal Lascelles is back as captain in place of the injury Fabian Schar.

1hr from kickoff: Here’s the City XI. Sterling and Grealish do indeed come into refresh the forward line, but it’s Foden and Madrid goalscorer Mahrez who drop to the bench along with Bernardo Silva. That means Gundogan slotting into midfield, with Zinchenko replacing the injured Walker and Cancelo shuffling across to left-back.

1hr 20 mins from kickoff: Of course, the big question is what state Guardiola’s players will be in when they take to the field. As much as Liverpool’s slip-up has handed them huge onus in the fight for the Premier League, the dramatic and heartbreaking manner of Wednesday’s Champions League semi-final exit at the hands of Real Madrid might have taken a toll.

1hr 30 mins from kickoff: Hello and welcome to Sporting News’ live coverage of Manchester City’s Premier League home match against Newcastle. We’ve been saying this every Saturday and Sunday for what seems like forever now, but this really could be a pivotal day in the title race. Liverpool’s 1-1 draw with Tottenham at Anfield on Saturday means a win for Pep Guardiola’s men will put them three points clear with three games to play. Team news is half an hour away.

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How to watch Man City vs. Newcastle

  UK USA Canada Australia
Date May 8 May 8 May 8 May 9
Time 4.30 p.m. 11.30 a.m. ET 11.30 a.m. ET 1.30 a.m. AEST
TV channel Sky Sports Main Event USA Network DAZN Optus Sport
Streaming Sky Sports UNIVERSO NOW DAZN Optus Sport

In the US, televised Premier League games are also available on fuboTV, which also offers a free trial to new subscribers.

In Canada, every Premier League game streams live on DAZN. 

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