Key events
89 minutes: The dangerous Semenyo faces three City players and Doku emerges the winner, fleeing down the left wing.
88 minutes: Ünal and Sinisterra enter Bournemouth.
87 minutes: KDB receives an attack from Christie, and City takes a free kick from the right. De Bruyne puts the ball into the area… and Neto rejects it. Semenyo escapes and is fouled by Bernardo, who receives a yellow card.
85 minutes: Ouattara wins the ball from Foden before twisting and turning inside the area… but his shot goes wide of Ederson and into the net. He seems cheerful though.
84 minutes: City bring in Kevin De Bruyne to rub him in.
83 minutes: Ouattara makes a wonderful first touch on the left of a good ball from Cook, preparing for a cross into the box… but goes over it, much to Semenyo's frustration.
Here's Justin Kavanaghboth praising and No congratulating City: “Your job is probably safe for now, Taha, but perhaps the billionaire footballer of the near future should worry about AI taking over. After all, this City team has already shown us how predictably brilliant but strangely unconvincing humanoids would play football.”
81 minutes: Doku has plenty of space on the left, but Alex Scott does well to block the winger's shot. Corner for City.
79 minutes: Faivre replaces Senesi Bournemouth.
Stephen Gannon writes in, presumably trying to get an equalizer at Bournemouth. “People like to say first division It is the best league in the world, it is very competitive, etc. But we all know that once Man City Score the game is over. I feel like they are the only team and (Leverkusen) that you can recover from after they take the lead. Competitive, I think not!
77 minutes: Adam Smith presses high to win the ball from Doku and move forward, but the City winger runs back with him before bringing him down… although no foul is committed.
75 minutes: Haaland leaves for Álvarez.
74 minutes: City keep the ball in the middle before Haaland appears to pass on goal… but Kerkez does well with a sliding challenge to get in the way before Haaland's eventual shot is saved by Neto.
72 minutes: Foden's corner is deep but City's header does not bother Bournemouth. The Stones win another corner after finding themselves on the right wing.
71 minutes: Foden returns the ball to Kovacic, who shoots inside the D and wins a corner.
70 minutes: Bournemouth They go for it, with Solanke's shot blocked before Senesi receives a yellow card for pushing Haaland back in the City half.
68 minutes: Bournemouth make two changes: Kluivert is replaced by Scott; Tavernier of Ouattara.
67 minutes: Aké blocks Smith's cross attempt. corner for Bournemouth …and the header at the far post was brilliantly saved by Ederson! It was Solanke who headed in and the ball was stopped on the line, with the goalkeeper far behind.
66 minutes: The corner does not cause any additional damage to Bournemouth. Dias asks for a hand after a pass from Rodri, but the City centre-back committed a foul.
65 minutes: Doku gets his first try against Adam Smith on the City left after a delicious first touch to lay the ball away… and wins a corner afterwards Bournemouth The shirts conspire against him.
63 minutes: Doku – who terrorized Bournemouth earlier this season, he replaces Nunes at City.
61 minutes: Nice pass through the City half before Stones breaks free down the right, but his cross into the box causes little trouble.
59 minutes: Excellent holding play from Solanke in the box allowing him to pass to Tavernier to shoot from the edge of the box… but he can't adequately threaten on goal.
58 minutes: Smith plays a long ball diagonally to try and find Kerkez, with Akanji getting in the way.
57 minutes: City fans loudly sing Blue Moon as Bournemouth Finally they begin to threaten the visitors.
55 minutes: Semenyo jumps down the right wing, beats Aké and delivers a fantastic cross, but Tavernier's shot fails to connect and goes wide before Dias deflects. great opportunity for Bournemouth.
53 minutes: Akanji perfectly weighs a pass to Foden in the area, who crosses the ball over the goal… but there is no one at the end to put it in.
52 minutes: Haaland pushes Zabarnyi with incredible power before firing a shot into the box… which is blocked by the recovering Zabarnyi.
51 minutes: Kluivert throws a diving attempt from distance, Ederson ducks to keep it out and hold on.
50 minutes: Bournemouth looks a more assured touch on the ball, with Semenyo doing well to evade Rodri and play the ball out to the left before Kerkez, on the overlap, fails to get his cross.
49 minutes: Foden can't believe he didn't get a free kick after falling on the D.
46 minutes: There's a short break while Dias takes a tablet and a drink of water on the touchline.
We're back!
City starts the second half… here we go.
“I wasn't suggesting you don't write.” Andy (from below) clarifies. “Only your writing became. Although I feel your fear.”
“Now that the game is effectively over, After that goal, and it will be pass, pass, pass, yawn, I have an idea to run past you.” writes Andy Tuohy. “Would The Guardian ever consider AI-generated text-to-speech in its multi-commentator-style MBMs? Ken Wolstenholme? Alan Green? Even Barry Glendenning doing his own MBM. Pathé News for that Cholmondley Warner sensation. With crowd and referee sound effects for goals and penalty decisions. In fact, I would pay for that.”
As the professionals say, that's above my pay grade. But also, please don't, because I'd rather keep doing this as long as possible before the AI eliminates my usefulness.
HALF-TIME: Bournemouth 0-1 Manchester City
Absolutely dominant work from the champions, with Phil Foden's goal giving them the lead at half-time. John Stones has been everywhere on the field while, paradoxically, relaxing.
45+3 minutes: There are no dice on the set piece, but they return, with Christie launching a shot from outside the area that forces a good save from Ederson, who moves to his left to deny it.
45+2 minutes: Bournemouth fans roar as Kerkez wins a corner after Akanji blocks the left-back's shot.
45+1 minutes: Stones puts a ball into the box from the right, crying out for a header, but there is no City shirt at the end.
45 minutes: Three minutes are added.
44 minutes: Foden slides and moves, getting another shot inside the area, but straight at Neto. However, the City midfielder has been in tonight.
43 minutes: Well, maybe not a shooting position, as Nunes plays the ball to the right for Bernardo to cross. Nothing comes of it.
42 minutes: The corner misses the near post, but Rodri manages to take a free kick from a central shooting position.
41 minutes: Kluivert advances Bournemouth to get the crowd going, but City go back on the attack soon after, winning a corner for Bernardo to take…
39 minutes: Foden tries to score with the free kick, he tries a left footed shot… but it goes high and wide.
