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Manchester City’s incentive to secure the Champions League football for next season he has suffered an extremely surprising failure as they kept to draw 0-0 rejected by Southampton.
City had the opportunity to move second to the Premier League with a victory over the lateral condemnation that he finished the bottom of the season.
However, they blew their lines despite the long -awaited return of Erling Haaland from ankle injury, Southampton, holding that they would hold their first pure sheet since November.
This means that City miss the opportunity to go six points away from the six-ranked Nottingham Forest in the Champions League race. The first five will qualify for the Champions League, but City will be skipped to a table if in Sunday’s mass game between Newcastle United and Chelsea in St James Park has a winner.
Southampton against Manchester City
Haaland was returned to the initial XI as one of the five changes that Pep Guardiola had made from last week’s victory over Wolves, but his side fought that most of his predictable dominance in possession.
Their best chance for the starting half came when Kevin de Bruyne overthrew a free kick from the edge of the area closely over the crossbar.
The possibilities were not easy to start the second half despite the introduction of Jeremy Loca on the left flank, although the defense of Southampton became more desperate because City turned the screw in search of a decisive goal.
Haaland failed to connect with Phil Foden’s delivery twice while Norwegian endured a frustrating afternoon and, when City managed to test Aarona Ramsdale, they found Southampton goalkeepers in fine form.
Ramsdale displayed great reflexes to reject Manuel Akanji from the Ball of De Bruyne, before Savinho and Nico O’reilly released their lines by running away after the Haland’s square pass.
Savinho and Ruben Dias were prevented by a double savings from Ramsdale, and Marmoush was the following frustration while his effort was cleaned in a six -yard box.
The Egyptian was the man closest to the piercing of the impressive resistance of Southampton when he inserted an effort against Ramsdale in the 91st minute, with luck once on Southampton’s side, while they stood firmly asking for a point, which means they outplayed the least points of the Premier League in the season.
Southampton now has 12 points, one more than Derby succeeded in the 2007-08 period, but this is a stack that could have much greater consequences at the other end of the table in two weeks.
