As a player who started in varzea football on the streets of Sao Paulo, positions on the pitch matter little to Gabriel Jesus. Centre-forward? Right-wing? As he…

Manchester City are moving closer to landing Erling Haaland this summer and will have a clear path to signing the Borussia Dortmund forward when Real Madrid complete…

Oleksandr Zinchenko Good battle with Salah on his flank but almost let him with a backpass. Would have liked to have got further forward to get crosses…

Flare-ups are nothing new and sometimes there is little you can do about them. I had tough occasions during my career, but the important thing is how…

Jack Grealish had his hair pulled twice by Stefan Savic during expletive strewn exchanges with the Atletico Madrid defender as it emerged there had been concerns for…

City manager Pep Guardiola refused to talk about referee Daniel Siebert or the incidents after the match. He was targeted by fans with missiles as he went…

Fernandinho has revealed he will leave Manchester City at the end of the season, news that caught his manager, Pep Guardiola, unawares on the eve of the…

Fine lines indeed. Had Aguero scored, and had City gone on to break their Champions League duck early, maybe we would not now be talking about a…

Matches between direct title rivals were once a 90-minute struggle for attacking players to find space, with only an occasional glimpse of the opponent’s goal to break…

“It’s not your typical English football, is it?” Stones told Telegraph Sport in 2018. “It was to draw the press and create more space for the other…

City vs Liverpool, as yet, does not compare. “It’s different because there’s no needle between the two teams. The game has changed in terms of what you…

Rodri Performed the all-important anchor midfield role well although had his hands full in the second half, especially, when the visitors’ front three were more involved. 6/10…

By the end, even Virgil van Dijk, normally the most composed of defenders, had resolved that the best way to deal with Kevin De Bruyne was to…

Jurgen Klopp conjured up the image of two old men meeting, maybe in the Black Forest in Germany, maybe in Barcelona, and reminiscing about the old days,…

Pep Guardiola has revealed he is ready to stay at Manchester City for the rest of his career and prolong the most intense rivalry he has felt…

Guardiola’s men have a Treble in their sights and the clubs will fight it out all over again in the FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley six days…

Unlike Spain and Scotland, duopolies, like the current one between Manchester City and Liverpool rated the greatest of them all by Jamie Carragher and Jürgen Klopp, are…

Manchester City are under investigation over alleged payments to Roberto Mancini and underage players – as well as over sponsorship deals signed by the club – Der…

Stefan Savic offers some furious words to Grealish, Grealish replies in the modern footballing style, with hands masking his mouth. Savic seems placated, giving him a reasonably…

There he was in the referee Istvan Kovacs’ face telling the Romanian that Kevin De Bruyne warranted a yellow card after dumping Felix on his backside. He…

Guardiola refused to be drawn on whether he felt Correa should have been sent off for the incident but left his players under no illusions that they…

But an ebullient Guardiola took great enjoyment from mocking the narrative around his perceived compulsion to tinker in the Champions League when fans and critics have often…

The second half was of marginally lower voltage, but it still crackled with electricity and Southampton gave as good as they got. Then they threw it away….

The Government on Saturday led a chorus of condemnation over Manchester City’s owner joining United Arab Emirates leaders in welcoming Syria president and Vladimir Putin ally Bashar…