Manchester City vs AEK Athens FC 5-1

Manchester City beat AEK Athens FC 5-1 at the Etihad Stadium, with Phil Foden’s hat-trick and a second-half burst putting the game beyond reach. The result was settled after the break once City turned a 2-0 lead into a rout.

Elliot Anderson opened the scoring in the 12th minute, and Foden made it 2-0 on 34 minutes from Rico Lewis’s pass. AEK Athens FC made two changes at half-time, sending on Aboubakary Koita and Ambrósini António Cabaça Salvador, and it was the latter who set up Stavros Pilios’s goal in the 52nd minute to reduce the gap to 2-1.

City answered five minutes later when Rayan Cherki scored from Foden’s assist to restore the two-goal cushion. Foden then scored his second of the match on 65 minutes, again from Lewis, before Ryan McAidoo, who had come on in the 62nd minute, set up Foden’s third on 76 minutes to make it 5-1. City made two changes on 72 minutes and another on 83, while AEK also made two more substitutions on 83 minutes.

City had 64% of the possession and 681 passes to AEK’s 387, along with 17 shots to 11 and 7 on target to 3. They also finished with 8 corners to 3 and an expected goals figure of 2.92 to 0.77, while both sides had 2 saves and AEK were caught offside once.

Josko Gvardiol was booked in the 59th minute. There were no red cards.