MATCH REPORT: CITY 5, ROTHERHAM 0
An eventful week in City circles ended with the good news that the red card for Borja Sainz had rightfully been overturned and confirmed that, in the opinion of the FA, Jonny Howson feigned his reaction to get a player sent off. His previous warm welcome at Carrow Road is unlikely to be repeated.
To counter this, Dimi Giannoulis suffered an injury in training, so David Wagner had to do some pack-shuffling.
Sam McCallum came in at left-back, Jacob Sorensen replaced Grant Hanley in central defence and Gabriel Sara was deployed as the wide(ish) right-sided player.
The result was a first half that was about as one-sided as it gets.Â
Rotherham elected not to press City as they played out from the back. Their first line of three sat just into the City half, presumably in an attempt to block the first ball into the midfielders.
They failed. Rotherham had no answer for the movement and passing of Kenny McLean, Sara and, particularly, Marcelino Nunez who were able to manipulate the ball with impunity. Equally, Rotherham completely failed to get to grips with Jack Stacey. The City fullback had so much space it was only a matter of time before he created a chance.
By the 12th minute, Stacey had already provided two dangerous crosses when he powered on a long run down the right channel. With the angle tightening, he delivered an inch-perfect cross, met by the head of Sara, who had slipped between two defenders. His header gave the keeper little chance. 1-0 City.
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