Manchester City vs Sevilla LIVE: Result and reaction as City win Super Cup via penalty shootout
Man City 1-1 Sevilla (5-4 pens): The Champions League winners defeated the Europa League champions
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Your support makes all the difference.Manchester City win another trophy. It should have been inevitable given the superiority Pep Guardiola’s team have over, pretty much, every other team last season. City are treble-winners and won the elusive Champions League for the first time. They came into the Uefa Super Cup as massive favourites but needed a penalty shootout to get the job done.
Sevilla struck first. They were the better team in the opening 45 minutes as City failed to get up to the tempo of the match. Youssef En-Nesyri leapt above Nathan Ake to meet Marcos Acuna’s cross and nod the Spaniards in front. That goal saw them go into half-time with the lead but it woke City up.
Guardiola’s men then pushed on in the second half and equalised through Cole Palmer. Like En-Nesyri he slotted home a fine header and drew City level. The match went to a penalty shootout and the Champions League winners were perfect. They scored all five before Nemanja Gudelj missed his spot kick and gifted them the trophy.
Relive the action as Manchester City defeated Sevilla in the Super Cup:
Kick off! Man City 0-0 Sevilla
It’s been over 30 degrees in Athens for most of the day and it remains sweltering hot as Manchester City get the match started. They work the ball to Josko Gvardiol who is making his first start since joining the Champions League winners.
Manchester City vs Sevilla
Here come the team!
Kyle Walker leads out Manchester City in the absence of Kevin De Bruyne tonight. He’s carrying the Champions League trophy with him. Will the experienced right-back be lifting another trophy for City by the end of the night?
Kick off in Athens is up next...
Manchester City vs Sevilla
Manchester City have won all four of their previous meetings with Sevilla - all in the Champions League - by an aggregate score of 12-3.
Pep Guardiola, meanwhile, has won the Super Cup each time he has managed a team in the final, doing so with Barcelona in 2009 and 2011, and Bayern Munich in 2013.
Manchester City vs Sevilla
Sevilla have lost four of their past seven meetings with English sides in all European competition (won two, drawn one), as many as they had in their first 18 such matches (eight wins, six draws, four defeats).
They did beat Manchester United 3-0 in their last such game, however.
Super Cup is crucial to Man City’s season but it’s not about the trophy
Manchester City have never enjoyed so many spoils of victory. Pep Guardiola has tended to be justifiably irritated by premature talk of trebles and quadruples in past seasons. His side at least ensured the idea of the septuple was taken off the table by losing the penalty shootout to decide the Community Shield.
But, for the fourth time in five matches, there is a trophy at stake when City take the field in Piraeus this evening. There is the chance to make history in a historic place: as the chief port of ancient Greece, spoils of victory used to pass through Piraeus regularly.
City have become the 23rd club to win the Champions League. They could become the 25th to lift the Uefa Super Cup. It is an eclectic list: for City the aim otherwise these days is not to emulate Mechelen or Aberdeen, let alone Zenit St Petersburg. There is a case for arguing it was the summit of the powers of Sir Alex Ferguson’s Aberdeen: they beat Bayern Munich on their way to the Cup Winners’ Cup final, then Real Madrid in the final, then European Cup winners Hamburg in the Super Cup.
Super Cup is crucial to Man City’s season but it’s not about the trophy
Pep Guardiola’s team face Sevilla hoping to landing some more silverware but the game can help serve a bigger aim for the club off the pitch
Manchester City vs Sevilla
Manchester City are unbeaten in their last 13 matches in all European competition with eight wins and five draws -it is their longest successful run.
They have also lost just one of their past 11 meetings with Spanish opponents (eight wins, two draws).
Manchester City vs Sevilla
Sevilla have been runners-up in the Super Cup more often than any other side. Having won their first match in 2006, they have lost each of their last five appearances - 2007, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2020.
Kevin De Bruyne facing up to four months out and may require surgery
Pep Guardiola says Manchester City star Kevin De Bruyne faces up to four months out and could require surgery on a hamstring injury.
The 32-year-old was forced off in the first half of June’s Champions League final triumph against Inter Milan and did not play a single minute of pre-season.
De Bruyne returned from that hamstring issue as a second-half substitute in the Community Shield shoot-out loss to Arsenal and captained the side against Burnley in Friday’s Premier League opener.
Kevin De Bruyne facing up to four months out and may require surgery
The Belgium playmaker only lasted 23 minutes of the season opener at Turf Moor.
Manchester City vs Sevilla
Man City will be without Kevin De Bruyne tonight after Pep Guardiola confirmed the midfielder is facing up to four months out because of a hamstring injury.
Portugal defender Ruben Dias is also out after a knock to the head in training while, England centre-back John Stones has a hip injury but could return to face Newcastle United in the Premier League on Sunday.
Manchester City vs Sevilla
Man City midfielder Rodri says his team have a hunger to win every trophy they play for as the Champions League winners prepare to face Sevilla in the Uefa Super Cup in Athens.
Treble winners City were beaten by Arsenal in the Community Shield but have another chance to lift their first trophy of the season tonight.
"We have to arrive with desire like we did our last finals," said Rodri, "In the last finals we showed the level of hunger."
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