Three things we learned – Manchester City 4-1 Borussia Dortmund

Manchester Metropolis overcame Borussia Dortmund in an excellent attacking efficiency on the Etihad Stadium within the UEFA Champions League.

All of Metropolis’s attackers had been at their sharpest as Phil Foden struck twice, Erling Haaland scored but once more and Rayan Cherki bagged his first Champions League aim, with Waldermar Anton pulling one again for Dortmund earlier than Cherki’s effort.

Metropolis moved as much as fourth place within the Champions League group section behind simply Bayern Munich, Arsenal and Inter, forward of their blockbuster Premier League conflict with Liverpool this Sunday.

Listed below are three issues we discovered as Metropolis beat Nico Kovac’s facet:

Foden regaining his greatest type

With two trademark objectives towards Dortmund, it’s secure to say that Foden is again to his absolute best once more.

After a disappointing marketing campaign final yr, Foden has began this season a lot sharper. He takes care of the ball higher and is discovering himself in between the strains on the sting of the field extra typically – which is the world he thrives in probably the most.

His two objectives, each terrific left footed efforts into the underside nook, helped Metropolis on their option to a convincing victory, and earned him reward from England supervisor Thomas Tuchel after his recall to the Three Lions’ squad.

Metropolis are constructing a crew to compete this season and past, and Foden is and will likely be on the beating coronary heart of it.

Consistency over 90 minutes stays a difficulty

Metropolis had spells of full dominance, however by the tip, it received extraordinarily nervy.

Dortmund had been piling on the stress, pulled a aim again and got here shut on quite a few events to getting one other, with Gianluigi Donnarumma making just a few good saves together with two consecutive inch good slide tackles to win the ball exterior his field.

Finally, Pep Guardiola introduced Ruben Dias on and caught him in the course of a again 5, which did make things better. Although it shou;dn’t have gotten to that stage; Metropolis had been in cruise management and former iterations of the crew can be including to their lead, somewhat than defending it.

There was a giant drop off, and I can solely converse for myself in saying Feyenoord final season was recent in my thoughts.

Towards a greater crew equivalent to Liverpool the Blues might nicely have been punished, in order that they completely want to enhance this aspect of the sport.

Wingers displaying an enchancment

A constructive signal from the sport was the primary half performances of Jeremy Doku and Savinho.

Each had irritating begins to the sport however actually got here into their very own in the direction of the tip of the half.

Savinho was discovering loads of house down Metropolis’s proper hand facet, and performed a task within the second aim by driving to the byline and pulling the ball throughout aim, with Haaland’s strike coming just some seconds later.

And it was the Belgian winger who set him up, with a trademark shimmy and low left footed cross for Haaland to whack house.

Each have struggled with finish product throughout their time at Metropolis, however towards Dortmund they had been a lot better.

Savinho particularly has to grow to be extra constant and repair his angle (he was booked ridiculously for arguing with the assistant referee while the sport was nonetheless occurring behind him) however these are constructive indicators we’re seeing from Metropolis’s two younger wingers.