There was no place for surprises at Wembley, the almighty Manchester City passed over Aston Villa (1-2) and took their seventh League Cup, the third in a row, with goals from Sergio Agüero and Rodri .

While Aston Villa spoke in the stands, singing to the City that he will never be able to say that he is the European champion (something that Villa achieved in 1982), the celestial ones ruled on the green. On a cold and sunny afternoon in London, the smallest of the domestic cups in England went to the windows of the City and a Pep Guardiola that already has eight titles with the English and 29 in total.

The City was a favorite and it showed, despite coming from a week warmed up with the confrontation against Real Madrid. The victory in the Santiago Bernabéu conditioned the eleven and Guardiola made eight changes with respect to what lived in the Spanish capital , leaving Kevin De Bruyne, Bernardo Silva and Riyad Mahrez out. This was no problem for the City's closet floor, especially incisor above.

At 20 minutes, the first one arrived. Rodri changed the orientation of the game by putting the ball into the area, Phil Foden appeared and left it dead head to Agüero. The Argentine finished off first, the leather played on Tyrone Mings and got into the goal. The City already had what he wanted and dedicated himself to accumulate players in the Villa field and to look for the second, a matter of time.

Controversial in the second goal

With controversy the second goal was born. The referee pointed to a corner that was not in favor of the City and Rodri, appearing alone, finished a header . It gave the feeling of being dead and at the end with that second goal around half an hour, but John Stones, head start against losses in defense, allowed Villa to resurrect. He slipped, led to a rapid offensive transition and Mbwana Samatta connected an unappealable header to Claudio Bravo's networks.

With that target you came to rest, anticipating an open second part and giving hope to Birmingham's warm fondness. But the second 45 minutes, instead of emotion, distilled boredom. The City was content to play placidly on the front of the Villa area, in addition to some isolated opportunity of Agüero, and the villains only tried with timid bursts.

Until minute 87, in which Engels was erected over the defense to get a header that cleared Bravo, in one of his few interventions in the game, with the help of the post. Enough for a City that already has seven League Cups in its medal winners and that in recent years has become the king of this competition, remaining just a twist of the eight that Liverpool has, the most in England .

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