Grealish is on target in Barca, City draw in Orlando
Manchester City and Barcelona played in a thrilling draw of 2-2 at Orlando on Tuesday, after it was postponed by longer than one hour.
The game’s kick-off in the Camping World Stadium was put on hold for 80 minutes due to a weather advisory. City’s opening game in the United States tour, a 4-3 loss against Celtic The game was delayed as well due to the weather conditions.
After the game had began, Erling Haaland believed he scored within the first 15 minutes of play However, an effort made by Oscar Bobb‘s cross that appeared to suggest it crossed the line wasn’t awarded.
It was Barcelona who scored the first goal with the Pau Victor. Victor got his goal under intense pressure by Kalvin Phillips after he was pushed through by a deft flick by Marc Casado.
City came back by the 19 year old Nico O’Reilly, however, Barcelona scored again at the half-time break when Victor cleverly let the ball fly for Pablo Torre to score.
Both teams made changes after the half — Pep Guardiola drew Haaland along with Ederson The latter was replaced by Ederson and City scored a second goal shortly after through the play of Jack Grealish following a sensational sprint by Mateo Kovacic that began on an edge in City’s penalty box.
In the penalty shootout following the match, Phillips was among the City players who failed to hit the spot when Barcelona took the lead 4-1.
City will next play in the match against Chelsea at home in Ohio on Saturday, while Barcelona take on La Liga rivals Real Madrid in New Jersey.