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City overwhelms Luton Town with six goals: five personal goals from Haaland, including four assisted by De Bruyne. The fairytale of Maidstone ends, the sixth-tier club that arrived in the top sixteen in the nation: Coventry dominates and wins 5-0. Newcastle (on penalties) and Leicester (on extra time) ahead
Goal of the Land, x5. Assist De Bruyne, x4. City closes the Luton Town case with the usual performance monster of its phenomena. The first goal is from Haaland on an assist from De Bruyne, the second is from Haaland on an assist from De Bruyne, the third is from Haaland on an assist from De Bruyne and the fourth, for a change, is from Haaland on an assist from De Bruyne. Then the Norwegian completed his personal top five, stopping there. The statistics, needless to say, are almost inhuman: twenty-second game with three or more goals in his career; two fours and two fives in his CV, counting the one he just signed in the fifth round of the FA Cup, but without a record. His personal best remains nine. Yes, nine. Wearing the Norway U20 shirt in the 2019 World Cup against Honduras. In the final, Kovacic completes the feast with his first goal since citizens.
Mister assist
And if Haaland scores, De Bruyne continues to serve chocolates. He played two games of the season in August before getting injured and returning in 2024. Since then: 11 assists in 549 minutes. It means a decisive pass for a goal every fifty minutes. More than any other player in the City squad, including his colleagues (equally wizards of the ball) who, however, have already made around forty appearances.
End of the Maidstone fairy tale
The sixth division team (sixth!) reached the FA Cup round of 16. Not since 1977-78 had a club so far down His Majesty’s football pyramid (to be clear, it corresponds to the Italian Promotion) reached this far in the competition. Seven games won to get to challenge Coventry (which won 5-0), 700 thousand pounds earned match after match. In 1992 the club went bankrupt and restarted from the fourth division of the Kent County League, effectively the twelfth tier of English football: “We played our games in front of a man and his dog” sporting director Williams said to Guardian a few days ago. Despite the heavy (and logical) knockout, the 2023-24 season will remain indelible in their memory.
Ok Newcastle (on penalties) and Leicester (on extra time)
The other two scheduled matches lasted one hundred and twenty minutes or more: Newcastle ahead, beating Blackburn on penalties. Gordon’s penalty and Hyam’s error were decisive. Leicester are ok too, relegated last year to the Championship, which beats Bournemouth (Premier team) with Issahaku at 105′. To complete the fifth round, on Wednesday 28th, they are scheduled Chelsea-Leeds, Nottingham Forest-Man United, Wolverhampton-Brighton e Liverpool-Southampton.
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