Manchester City v Club Brugge: Champions League – live

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73 min Haaland menaces Jashari and wins it high, galumphing into the box, opening his body … and telegraphing a finish that Mignolet saves. But the ball bounces out to Savinho, on the edge, who passes firmly goalwards … only for Mechele, who’s played extremely well, to slide into a match-saving block!

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72 min At Villa Park, a mixed few minutes for Ollie Watkins. First, he puts Villa back in front at 3-2; second, he slips while taking a penalty, sending the ball into his standing foot and nowhere near goal. Join Scott Murray for more.

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71 min Triple change for Brugge, which perhaps shows how Nicky Hayen is thinking. He removes his three strikers, Talbi, Tzolis and jutgla, to send on Vetlesen, Vermant and Skoras. He might just be thinking about the weekend match away to Antwerp.

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69 min Hold tight Brugge, who are still giving it plenty. Talbi finds space down the right, shifts it to create a shooting lane, and hammers towards the near post, forcing Ederson to make the save. The corner comes to nowt.

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67 min City were so soporific in the first half and they’re back playing slowly now, but I’m not sure about that. If they don’t score again, they might find themselves hauled back; if they keep trying to score, they could win by two or three.

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65 min Brugge will know they’re as good as through, so it’ll take a lot for them to find an equaliser here. But if they can stay in the game, City will get nervous, and the gaps at the back will remain.

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GOAL! Manchester City 2-1 Club Brugge (Ordonez own goal 62)

Down the left, Gvardiol finds Savinho and goes in behind for the return, his mate nipping inside to create time and angle before jabbing a cunning pass with the outside of hit foot. So Gvardiol leathers a low cross and young Ordonez, hitherto excellent, gets the fear sliding in and sending the ball past Mignolet though Mechele is covering behind him. As things stand, both sides are going into the last 32, and Guardiola’s half-time change and lecture has changed this game.

Club Brugge’s Joel Ordonez (left) prods the ball into his own net and give Manchester City the lead. Photograph: Dave Thompson/AP
Josko Gvardiol (centre), whose cross was turned into own net by Ordonez celebrates with Savinho. Photograph: Mike Egerton/PA
Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola and the City fans celebrate their club’s good fortune. Photograph: Dan Istitene/Getty Images
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59 min But here come Brugge again! Tzolis collects Vanaken’s backheel when Nunes misses with his slide, nashing through the middle and turning inside to pilfer a yard from Akanji, before sliding a shot back the way he came … just wide of the post. The visitors look like scoring every time they attack!

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58 min De Bruyne tries an outswinger, but Mechele is stronger than Gvardiol and heads clear; City collect the loose ball and go again, De Bruyne thrashing a low shot that Mignolet shoves away.

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58 min City win another corner, this time down the right…

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55 min But City are again caught on the counter, Tozlis again rampaging through the middle and holding on to the ball, back to goal inside the box, as Gvardiol holds him around the waist. He lays back to Vanaken from almost on the ground, but by this time Ederson is right on top of him to block … then the flag goes up, but there was no offside. Meantime, on the touchline, Guardiola pogos about asking for someone to be booked. This is pleasingly frantic now.

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GOAL! Manchester City 1-1 Club Brugge (Kovacic 53)

This is very competently done. Kovacic picks up the ball on halfway and surges through the centre, no one attempting to unload him so, from 20 yards, he threads a precise, considered effort, through Ordonez’s legs and past the unsighted Mignolet. It’s been coming.

Mateo Kovacic pinpoint finish gets Manchester City back on level terms. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters
Kovacic (right) celebrates. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA
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52 min And here he is, found by Bernardo after Mechele blocks desperately and taking a touch before lashing high.

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50 min There’s a bit more energy about City now and, with Savinho out wide, Foden’s able to roam centrally. And, though he’s best renowned for his skill at pace, he’s also got a terrific instinct for where the ball’s going to drop in the box, so that should be a good change.

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49 min If Brugge’s number 8 scores, we’ll need a CITY CAN’T FIND TZOLIS headline.

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47 min City win a corner, easily cleared, then Savinho earns another which goes short to De Bruyne. He comes inside, teases a delectable ball into the middle, and YE’VE GOTTAE SCORE! Stones lets it hit his head, cushioning back whence it came … and wide of the post! That’s the best chance City have had, by far, and though they ought now to be level, the ease of creation and change of impetus suggests there’ll be more along shortly.

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46 min We go again, Savinho on for Gundogan as we speculated. City have 45 minutes and change to save their season.

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Half-time scores

Aston Vila 2-2 Celtic

Barcelona 0-0 Atalanta

Levekrusen 1-0 Sparta Prague

Bayern 1-0 Slovan Bratislava

Dortmund 2-0 Shakhtar

Brest 0-1 Real Madrid

Dinamo Zagreb 1-0 Milan

Girona 1-2 Arsenal

Inter 2-0 Monaco

Juve 0-1 Benfica

Lille 2-1 Feyenoord

PSV 3-2 Liverpool

Salzburg 0-3 Atlético

Sporting -1 Bologna

Sturm Graz -3 PSG

Young Boys 0-0 Cervena zvezda

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Gosh, PSV now lead Liverpool 3-2! Your half-time scores are coming up..

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City have, I’m afraid, been very poor tonight; they’ve had loads of the ball but created nothing, deficient in ideas, zest and physical power. Brugge, on the other hand, have been strong, organised and enterprising, well worth their lead for their disciplined defending and direct counter-attacking. A fair bit needs to change for this match to change.

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HALF-TIME: Manchester City 0-1 Club Brugge

City need to score twice – at least – or they’re going out. With PSG 3-0 up in Stuttgart, Brugge are as good as there.

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GOAL! Manchester City 0-1 Club Brugge (Onyedika 45)

Now then! Mechele breaks up a City attack, challenging Gundogan, and Vanaken breaks through the middle, finding Jutgla, who diddles Nunes as easily as we feared, slides a low pass to the far side of the box, and Onyedika punishes a finish low inside the near post! The warning signs were there and City are in deep!

Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson is beaten by a shot from Club Brugge’s Raphael Onyedika to put the visitors ahead. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA
Here’s a view of the finish from the other end of the park. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA
Onyedika celebrates his goal. Photograph: Dave Thompson/AP
Whilst Erling Haaland looks dejected. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters
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44 min Harvey Elliott has put Liverpool ahead in Eindhoven; likewise Ethan Nwaneri for Arsenal in Girona – and that goal is worth a look-in.

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42 min So what might City do to change things? I’d be wanting crosses and bodies in the box, so would take off a midfielder, probably Kovacic, and send on a winger, Savinho or Grealish, and push Foden closer to Haaland.

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41 min Brugge are growing in confidence and looked pretty sorted from the start. Jahsari carries forward and has options, but he opts to shoot, hitting low and hard, but too close to Ederson.

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39 min Adam Idah has just scored his second goal in two minutes and it’s now Villa 2-2 Celtic. Scott Murray will fill you in…

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38 min PSV have equalised against Liverpool; Celtic have pulled one back to trail Villa 2-1; and Jorginho has equalised for Arsenal at Girona, via penalty.

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36 min De Cuyper raids down the left when found by Jashari’s lovely flick, and his square-pass into the box finds Tzolis, who laces a shot … that Akanji does really well to block. City have had all the possession, but it’s Brugge who’ve had the clearer sights of goal.

Club Brugge’s Christos Tzolis (left) larrups a shot goalwards as Manchester City’s John Stones attempts to block. Photograph: Dave Thompson/AP
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34 min Again, Foden running in behind offers City a route into the box, and Gvardiol finds him well, but his square flick is too weak to reach Haaland. Even so, Brugge might’ve panicked and wellied clear, but instead they calmly pass out of danger.

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33 min A bit of possession for Brugge. It’s been a while, and City will know that these situations are, counter-intuitively, what they want, because anything that offers space in behind is better than trying to find a route through 679 defenders camped on the edge of the box or deeper.

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30 min Nunes, who’s playing as a pretty orthodox right-back, collects a beautiful pass from De Bruyne that megs De Cuyper, but Tzolis chases back to make the challenge. This is very impressive from Brugge; Mignolet hasn’t had a serious shot to save and as things stand, they’re going through and City are going out.

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29 min Liverpool now lead 1-0 at PSV; Arsenal now trail at 1-0 at Girona.

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27 min De Bruyne is on the left of central-midfield at the moment; I’m not sure why, as it means City lose his delivery form the right. But it’s Haaland on the ball now, looking for a shooting lane and finding none, so he spreads to Foden, whose hard, low cross is collected by Mignolet.

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25 min City are improving, finding more space and winning balls in messy challenges. And after one such, Haaland pokes De Bruyne away at inside-left; he lamps a rising shot high and wide of the near post.

Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne fires off a shot at the Club Brugge goal, but doesn’t find the target. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA
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24 min De Bruyne picks up a loose ball, won initially by Gvardiol, down the left. He cuts back for Bernardo, who sweeps goalwards, but a deflection takes the shot wide. The ref originally signals corner before amending the call to a goalkick, the ball having come off Haaland.

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22 min Brugge will be very happy with their first quarter. They’ve allowed City nowt.

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20 min City are getting nearer. Gundogan drills a cross-kick to the far side of the box and Haaland’s up! But instead of going for goal, he heads back across to no one – though, in fairness, the angle was against him scoring.

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18 min “Speaking of United’s black kit,” says Paul McGrory, “my favourite opinion on it was Ferguson claiming that the black brought some kind of darkness over Cantona, as lots of his red cards came wearing that outfit. Nothing to do with south London racists or close marking by preposterously ponytailed defenders. And to think, it was only Ferguson’s second-most risible kit-related deflection.”

And, dare we venture, capricious temperament.

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16 min Nunes drives forward, finds Bernardo and continues his run, picking up the return and drilling a cross that Mignolet shovels away. City then sustain the attack, Bernardo flicking on De Bruyne’s dink for Gundogan to slot home … but then the flag goes up and replay shows he was well offside.

Manchester City’s Ilkay Gundogan is denied a place on the scoresheet by the offside flag. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PA
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15 min But now Brugge win it in midfield and finds Tzolis … who slides in behind … to no one.

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14 min Better from City, a ball over the top seeking Foden; Ordonez stretches to head away. Seconds later, though, Foden drives at him, makes a shooting angle on the outside, and leathers wide of the neat post.

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12 min De Bruyne tries a cross but Ordonez blocks behind, the corner coming to nothing. Thing is, Brugge are making no effort to get up and out, so as soon as the ball is cleared, City pick it up and recommence probing.

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11 min “Alan is right, Alexis is wrong,” reckons Mark Hooper. “Do You Believe in Shame?, The Chauffeur, Skin Trade are the top 3. It’s the law.”

Are they the best of the 80s synth-poppers? My sense is aye.

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9 min City knock it about but Brugge have their spacing right, forcing their hosts to go wide. I wonder if they might try a bit of wing-play with overlap, because picking a route through the centre won’t be easy.

Manchester City’s Erling Haaland fails to connect to the ball as Club Brugge’s Brandon Mechele looks on. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images/Reuters
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9 min Great news for Brugge: PSG lead at Stuttgart. If that remains the case, they’re into the last 32.

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7 min City win a corner and Brugge pull everyone back – no doubt partly to defend, but i’m sure also because, Arsenal 03-04-style, you can’t mark men charging at you from their own box. And they clear this ball easily but can’t break, so City build once more.

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6 min Again, one touch and Brugge are in behind, this time wider, with Talbi, whose cross is deflected into Ederson’s arms. Elsewhere, Rogers has scored again, so Villa lead Celtic 2-0.

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4 min Morgan Rogers has put Villa ahead against Celtic; join Scott Murray for all the latest.

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3 min Now then! A flick on and, with City high, Tzolis is away down the left! Really, he should cut in and go for goal himself but he’s got Tzolis inside so cuts back … only to find Gvardiol is well located to block the eventuating shot.

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1 min De Bruyne and Haaland sprint in to press, but Brugge are calm in possession and get the ball away from immediate danger. But City soon regain it so the visitors sit in – they’re almost a back five now, with three in front.

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1 min Brugge get us going!

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Boos from the crowd as the Champions league anthem plays. When will Uefa stop victimising Liddle Ciddy and their billionaire owners?

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Here come our teams…

Players from both sides huddle ahead of kick-off. Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images
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