Bournemouth 2-1 Man City: Champions shocked as Premier League title race takes dramatic turn

Not since losing to Aston Villa connected December 6 past twelvemonth had City mislaid successful the league, but from the archetypal moments connected the southbound seashore Andoni Iraola's broadside looked a lucifer for them, their vigor and manufacture rewarded by goals from Antoine Semenyo and Evanilson.

It looked astatine times similar Bournemouth would tally distant from City. Marcus Tavernier struck a station astatine 2-0 to permission Pep Guardiola's broadside clinging connected by their fingertips, earlier Josko Gvardiol acceptable up a tense decorativeness erstwhile helium headed successful Ilkay Gundogan's cross.

Guardiola had told his players they would request to play done the pain during his team's wounded troubles and truthful determination were starts for Gvardiol, Kyle Walker and Manuel Akanji, each of whom had been doubts. Kevin De Bruyne was acceptable capable lone for the seat wherever helium was flanked by 3 teenagers without a Premier League quality betwixt them.

Absent from the squad wholly were John Stones and Ruben Dias, and however City could person utilized their cardinal antiaircraft brace during a archetypal 20 minutes successful which Bournemouth attacked fearlessly.

A extremity seemingly beckoned aft a infinitesimal erstwhile archetypal Semenyo past Justin Kluivert were kept retired by Ederson, City's goalkeeper recovering from a escaped parry to nutrient a superb 2nd stop.

It was a informing the champions failed to heed and connected 9 minutes they fell behind. Milos Kerkez made it, dashing circular the extracurricular of Phil Foden connected the near and cutting it backmost centrally wherever Semenyo, having trodden connected the shot successful his haste to shoot, recovered to crook Gvardiol and space a decorativeness wide of Ederson and in.

Kerkez produced an outstanding block-tackle connected Bernardo Silva to sphere the pb past Erling Haaland dragged City's champion accidental of the archetypal fractional wide.

City had hardly troubled Mark Travers successful the Bournemouth extremity and immoderate fittingness concerns Guardiola had fretted implicit earlier kick-off were shown to beryllium substantial.

The 2nd fractional astir began spectacularly, Ederson doing good to crook distant Evanilson's onslaught with his limb earlier City came adjacent to levelling done Foden who guided wide from Matheus Nunes's pull-back.

Lewis Cook was possibly fortunate to flight without punishment for a situation that carried him close done Haaland, who was near requiring treatment, to City's irritation.

Semenyo and Kluivert were a changeless menace to the visitors' makeshift backline. Nathan Ake successful peculiar recovered the velocity and nonstop moving of the Bournemouth brace astir intolerable to contain, and their link-up play astir brought a 2nd goal, Semenyo's onslaught deflected narrowly implicit from a accelerated break.

Again City had been warned and again Bournemouth repeated the instrumentality to breach them. The outstanding Kerkez was the architect, rocketing wide of Walker down the near and crossing to wherever Ake and Gvardiol had abandoned Evanilson successful the middle, giving the Brazilian country to prime his country and decorativeness crossed Ederson.

Tavernier fired against the wrong of the station arsenic Bournemouth threatened to expanse City's unbeaten grounds distant earlier their eyes.

Travers got down good to support retired and cling to Haaland's volley arsenic the imaginable of decision inched towards reality.

Gvardiol's header offered precocious anticipation the tally mightiness spell on, and it mightiness person had Travers not beaten Haaland's effort disconnected the enactment successful stoppage time.

Foden past fired inches wide with the last footwear arsenic Bournemouth held on.