Neither
Bruno Zuculini or Kelechi Iheanacho are fully-fledged Manchester City
players just yet, but both were on the scoresheet as the Premier League
champions got their US tour off to a winning start at Sporting Park.
Zuculini
will officially join City once the Premier League ratify the
Argentine’s £1.5million move from Racing Club, and highly-rated Nigerian
striker Iheanacho can only loosely be referred to as a triallist after
earning a place on the flight to America during last week’s training
camp in Scotland.
The
teenager came through the Right to Dream programme in Ghana, which has
close links with City, and starred in last summer’s Under-17 World Cup.
Many
have Criticized Iheanacho for choosing to go to city after a wonderful
under 17 competition, instead, wishing he had signed for a lower rated
club in Europe where he would get regular playing time
Dedryck
Boyata and Aleksandar Kolarov were the other scorers as City eased to
victory over the current Major League Soccer champions. Most of
Pellegrini’s star players were still missing but there was another
outing for new signings Willy Caballero and Fernando as well as some who
might not be at the club much longer, such as Micah Richards, Scott
Sinclair, Matija Nastasic and Javi Garcia.
Match Facts
SPORTING KANSAS CITY: Gruenebaum; Juliao, Collin, Besler, Sinovic; Olum, Lopez, Feilhaber; Sapong, Dwyer, Saad.
Scorer: Sapong 30
MAN CITY:
Caballero; Richards (Clichy 45), Boyata, Rekik (Nastasic 75), Kolarov;
Navas, Fernando (Garcia 65), Zuculini (Huws 75), Sinclair; Iheanacho
(Denayer 90+1), Jovetic (Guidetti 65).
Subs not used: Wright, Lawlar, Leigh, Rodwell.
Scorers: Zuculini 3, Boyata 45, Kolarov pen 73, Iheanacho 89
Attendance: 18,484.
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