Forthcoming Fixtures

City, playing their first home reserve game since December 1^st recorded a victory against Bolton Wanderers at Hyde United's Ewen Fields. This result means City are on an eight game unbeaten run with five of those games being outright victories, three being in the league. Goals from reserve top scorer Alex Nimley-Tchuimeni and Abdisiliam Ibrahim ensured that City keep pace with the other two league pace setters Liverpool and Manchester United.

The game was very much similar to how the first team are playing at present with a sort of containment perspective and taking the chances to score on the few clear chances created. Certainly for most of the game there was very little goal mouth action to describe. City were forced into a late change as James Poole was taken ill and so substitute Chris Chantler replaced him. No disrespect to Chris but with the form that James had been showing this season, City had lost a real threat up front.

City did however not start the best by allowing Bolton's left winger, Michael O'Halloran, some space and he crossed in the second minute and found Aaron Mooy on the edge of the area and new signing(although he has been at the club for some time) David Gonzalez Giraldo saved well from Aaron's shot.

The next meaningful effort was what we can now describe as a sighter for Abdi Ibrahim as he had a great thirty yard strike in the thirty first minute that Adam Bogdan in the Bolton goal did well to turn behind for a corner.

Then Arshavin look a like, Rhys Bennett had a couple of eventful minutes just before the half time break; as first he nearly put the ball into his own net when Andrew Tutte crossed and Chantler put the ball back into the heart of the area; then a long clearance by Bolton was headed on by Ben Mee to Dedryck Boyata who sent a long ball that Rhys should have dealt with, instead he gave a weak header that Nimley pounced on and fired past Bogdan in first half stoppage time to give City the lead.

The second half saw Giraldo not have to make a save from Bolton who only had the one effort by former Altrincham College of Arts student and former colleague of one of the members of our website development team, when Sam Sheridan had a fine volley that went just over from a ball from the left wing in the fifty seventh minute.

City killed the game off for Bolton in the seventy first minute with a neat move that saw Nimley receive the ball out on the left before beating the couple of defenders in attendance and slipping a great little ball into Chantler who himself beat of the attentions of the defence before finding Abdi who pushed the ball forward before drilling his low powerful shot from about twenty five yards into the bottom left corner of the goal.

That victory temporarily lifts City into second place in the league one point above Liverpool who play Wigan at home this evening and will have another game in hand on ourselves and a point behind Manchester United in first place. City's next game is home to Sunderland next Wednesday which again is being played at Hyde United's ground.

Teams:

Manchester City:

Giraldo,Boyata, Cunningham, Kay, Onuoha, Mee, Mak(Redshaw 80), Ibrahim, Nimely, Tutte, Chantler

Subs:

T Johansen(GK), Wabara, Smith

Bolton Wanderers:

Bogdan, Riley, Blakeman, Stokes, Bennett, Basham (McDonald 32), Sheridan, Holden (Campbell 61), Harsanyi, Mooy, O'Halloran

Subs:

Lainton(GK), Battersby, McGeechan

Attendance: 305