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00:00We're not short of stellar strikers tonight, are we?
00:12Neither club really blazing an early trail domestically.
00:15Monaco are just three points behind PSG and Lyon Ligueur.
00:19So in comes Mohamed Salisu as part of that back three.
00:24Jordan Teysen normally a right-back lines up in midfield,
00:27having reached 50 goals in the competition last month.
00:30And City captain this season by Bernardo Silva,
00:33who does face his old club tonight.
00:38So away we go.
00:41Match day two.
00:44Chance to match the City to make it six points out of six.
00:49Very newsworthy.
00:53Barrio.
00:55A right.
00:57And Haaland's made a very good run.
01:00If he gets a toe to it, he'll score.
01:02And that's exactly what he does.
01:07The run goes on.
01:09Manchester City lead here in the Principality.
01:12And it's the principal Manchester City scorer,
01:15a principal Champions League scorer.
01:20Quick dart forward.
01:22Lovely timing on the pass.
01:24Just get a touch.
01:25A one-touch finish.
01:28And...
01:29They sometimes say he doesn't get enough touches in a match,
01:34but he gets touches like this when it really matters.
01:36And what a beginning, even by his extraordinary standards,
01:43he is having to this season.
01:45That's his tenth Manchester City goal.
01:47They've scored, I think, 19 between them.
01:49So, Pep, very grateful for the man that City gave a ten-year contract to.
01:56And the other number nine.
02:03Just give Monaco a little bit belief that rather than sitting back and almost waiting
02:16to get beaten, have a go.
02:20Manchester City has not been rock-solid defensively this season.
02:24And have a go indeed!
02:27Jordan Tese.
02:30With a beauty.
02:401-1 it is.
02:41But it's an absolute blockbuster.
02:49One touch.
02:51Then the hit.
02:54Penty of power, but...
02:56A fair amount of swerve.
02:57That's what actually beat Donnarumma in the end.
03:01Left grasping thin air.
03:06And City might have bags of danger going forward, but...
03:10Feeling that when he didn't play, he would never win.
03:17And here's Bernardo Silva.
03:18And that actually, for him, gets into his fellow midfielder.
03:26And this again, Foden.
03:31Monaco making a bit of a meal of getting it away this time.
03:33Reinders weaving on!
03:36Ooh, and a whisker away.
03:42And they've been passing around that area, so an individual surge.
03:46A little bit of a surprise for Monaco.
03:49A good look, as though there was a deflection on the shot.
03:52But, it's a level on the scoreline.
03:59Foden trying to shimmy his way through.
04:02Underside of the bar.
04:04Right down, close to the line.
04:05And this was the one.
04:12This will tell you how far in front of the line it was.
04:16Just that little overload.
04:18Get someone in to score a goal.
04:22O'Reilly really connected with that.
04:28So, Kern was strong by his near post.
04:33Just sort of came there.
04:35An opportunist one to hit.
04:36Rolling across, it's not always easy to hit the target like that.
04:39But that was a very decent effort.
04:42Matched by a very decent save.
04:45Still going.
04:46Got past Fatty rather easily.
04:47It's up to his foot, Phil Foden.
04:53Lovely move by Bernardo Silva.
04:55Cross in.
04:57And Haaland will follow it up.
04:59Hit the side netting of the shot from Rinders.
05:04Pass count rises.
05:07The potential for a second.
05:10Manchester City goal rises.
05:12Goalkeeper did well.
05:13It wasn't the hardest struck shot, but it still needed saving.
05:15Tijani Rinders.
05:25Oku again.
05:26Foden.
05:28Back to O'Reilly.
05:30Haaland leaping.
05:32And he's placed it to perfection.
05:35And they do have the lead.
05:37Back again.
05:39Before the break.
05:42There wasn't that much pace on the ball in.
05:44From O'Reilly.
05:46It's rather hung up.
05:47But he just pushed it with his forehead towards that far post from his point of view.
05:54And in it went.
05:55He will tell you that he's had to work on his heading through the years that have made him the player that it is today.
06:05It's not something that came absolutely naturally.
06:08Of course, he has an advantage with his natural size.
06:11One run that he loves to do towards the near post.
06:15I think that's part of Monaco's plans.
06:17We're about to find out.
06:20He's played deep.
06:21Vladiol is there again.
06:24And Donnarumma will boss that.
06:26And holds on until the half-time whistle.
06:31Whether City will hold on.
06:34Contrast.
06:35Monaco finished 17th in the league phase last season.
06:39They also went out at the same stage to Benfica.
06:41They've been out of Europe's elite competition.
06:48Short corner from Monaco.
06:52Matliouche.
06:55And Balogun.
06:57He made a late movement.
07:04All travelled a fair distance.
07:10That's the kind of chance he normally snaps up.
07:15To the way they play.
07:16The way they pass.
07:17The way they keep you really focused as an opponent.
07:22They sap the energies.
07:24Physical and mental as well.
07:27It's a good stop by Donnarumma.
07:36It's one of those where you have a lot of substitutions from Manchester City.
07:43It's the enforced one in the first half for Monaco.
07:47And one tactical in the second half.
07:50But here is Savino.
07:54Rinders.
07:55Oh.
07:57Inches away from settling the night, really.
07:59Oh, and the goalkeeper has changed this season.
08:02Veteran.
08:03Lukas Kvaretsky.
08:05The ball by Bernardo Silva.
08:13The ball by Bernardo Silva.
08:14Rinders.
08:17Sadisou can get it away, but comes back and it's Haaland.
08:23Well, that's as close as we've come to the hat-trick.
08:25He's claiming that there was something stray here that caught him in the face.
08:39It was a boot.
08:40It was a raised boot from behind him there by Nico Gonzalez.
08:45He's changed his axe.
08:46He went to Everton on loan and told me that he had a Merseyside axe.
08:50He's going to look at the screen.
08:51Well, hope springs here for Monaco.
08:55And he wouldn't have seen Dier coming.
08:57I would imagine he's just trying to get the ball.
09:01The referee has not instantly responded to this.
09:08Another angle might be better.
09:12The two angles.
09:19That's what they're looking at.
09:22He's made up his mind.
09:24We're about to find out.
09:27Penalty for Monaco.
09:29This is a vital kick.
09:31This couldn't well mean a point in the Champions League for Monaco.
09:36Dier takes.
09:37Dier scores.
09:39And it's 2-2.
09:44Well, he took the responsibility.
09:49Here he goes.
09:51And even the great Donnarumma is fooled.
09:55That couldn't have been on the list that he was looking at.
09:57Well, the kerfuffle was going on as to whether it would be a penalty.
10:04So they've stuck at it, Monaco.
10:07Here in the Principality.
10:10Barriol.
10:13Still going.
10:14Still going.
10:14Barriol is absolutely furious.
10:18He laid it across the front of the goal there.
10:20Barriol would have had the hat-trick.
10:21More importantly, he said he would have had the win.
10:23I think Barriol might be offside.
10:29And that's it.
10:31Monaco have done
10:32what was certainly extra difficult for them.
10:36Sean of...
10:37Oh, and a...
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