Manchester City striker Kelechi Iheanacho misses a chance to score Cheap Adidas NMD Racer , firing wide past Borussia Dortmund goalkeeper Roman Buerki during their International Champions Cup match in Shenzhen, south China’s Guangdong Province, last night. City won 6-5 on penalties. — Reuters PEP Guardiola got his first taste as Manchester City’s manager last night after beating Borussia Dortmund on penalties in a friendly Cheap Adidas NMD Human Race , but expressed concern about the looming English Premier League season.
“Football today is tough,” said Guardiola, whose side beat its German opposition in Shenzen Cheap Adidas NMD Hu Trail , south China’s Guangdong Province. “Today you don’t have time to rest. I don’t know if we are going to kill our players but the schedule is the schedule. We start in two weeks. But I saw what I wanted to see — we are aggressive and we want the ball.”
City won — and finally got the workout Guardiola had craved — thanks to a 6-5 penalty shoot-out win over Dortmund, after the game ended one apiece.
Guardiola admitted City was still a work in progress with just two preseason games completed so far. “I don’t want to complain but I would like to have more time,” the Spaniard said. “But we have to adapt. Today we played one of the best teams in Europe — they are so strong. There are many things to improve.”
A tap-in from Sergio Aguero for City on 79 minutes was cancelled out after Christian Pulisic fired one home for Dortmund Cheap Adidas NMD CS2 , through a crowded box, with six minutes of added time gone.
City keeper Angus Gunn was the hero of penalties with three saves, including the one sealing its victory when he palmed away Mikel Merino’s attempt.
It was a lively enough affair in front of a crowd of around 32 Cheap Adidas NMD CS1 ,000 at the Shenzhen Universiade Stadium and saw both managers draw deep on their substitutes benches as time wore on.
Robbed of the chance for a derby against rival Manchester United by rain and a ropey pitch on Monday, Guardiola had been desperate to get some game time into his squad before their tour of China was over. Yesterday the weather gods were kinder, with temperatures dropping slightly.
He gave Oleksandr Zinchenko Cheap Adidas NMD CRAZY BYW , Tosin Adarabioyo and Kelechi Iheanacho starts, while Guardiola’s opposite number Thomas Tuchel continued to blood his new recruits also as he had in their 4-1 win over United in the International Champions Cup China’s opening match in Shanghai last Friday.
Teenagers Ousmane Dembele (19) and Emre Mor (18) both started, alongside Marc Bartra Cheap Adidas NMD City Sock 2 PK , Dortmund’s offseason capture from Barcelona. In all there were six new faces from the starting XI against United as Tuchel looked to put miles into legs.
But the goals came late and Tuchel could be excused if he thought life was unfair, given the chances his side had been presented with, and the opportunity — missed — to complete a double over both shades of Manchester.
In Pasadena Cheap Adidas NMD City Sock , California, Chelsea’s Cesc Fabregas was sent off for a reckless lunge at Liverpool new boy Ragnar Klavan, overshadowing a 1-0 friendly win on Wednesday.
The Premier League giants locked horns in the ICC United States in a match which was more remarkable for its clumsy fouls than free-flowing football.
Spanish midfielder Fabregas Cheap Adidas NMD Chukka , 29, could have no complaints as he got his marching orders in the 70th minute for sliding late into Klavan with his studs up.
By then Californian referee Baldomero Toledo had already been forced to show yellow cards to four Liverpool players — with another to come — and one to Chelsea defender Gary Cahill, who scored the only goal the 10th minute.
Chelsea’s new head coach Antonio Conte said after the final whistle that the match was more competitive than he had been expecting and apologized for Fabregas’s foul.
CAIROPARISWASHINGTON, May 20 (Xinhua) -- An EgyptAir jet airliner carrying 56 passengers and a crew of 10, en route from Paris to Cairo, might have been downed by a terrorist attack on Thursday, and search for the missing jet is still underway, Egyptian authorities said.
Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said it was too early to rule out any explanation for the crash, including a similar attack that a Russian airliner has been downed over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula last year.
The Airbus A320 vanished 10 miles (16 km) after it entered Egyptian airspace at 2:45 a.m. local time in Cairo (0045 GMT) on Thursday with 66 people aboard, including 30 Egyptians, 15 French and citizens form 10 other countries.
Egypt's Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathy said a terrorist attack was more likely than a technical failure.
In remarks quoted by media reports, Russian security official Alexander Bortnikov said, "In all likelihood it was a terror attack" that caused EgyptAir Flight 804 to crash into the Mediterranean early Thursday.
However, several U.S. officials reportedly said that a U.S. review of satellite imagery so far had not produced any signs of an explosion aboard the EgyptAir flight.
Those officials, who preferred to be anonymous, said their conclusion was the result of a preliminary examination of imagery and cautioned against media reports suggestin