Holland's brace gave Manchester City a win over Porto

The performances of the English Manchester City in the preliminary draw of the UEFA Champions League ended extremely early - at the 1/8 final stage, which eventually became one of the harbingers of Josep Guardiola's departure from the position of the head coach of the "townsmen". And now, already in the new campaign, it is up to Enzo Maresca to return the club to the highest levels both on the domestic and international arena. And at the start of at least the Premier League, he manages to do it quite well. And now it's the turn of City with a new head coach to start performances in the main European Cup. Moreover, immediately after the difficult trip to Dragau as a guest against Porto, which is always hungry for great victories. "Dragons" tried to conquer the UEFA Europa League last season, but stopped at the quarter-final round and duels against another English team — Nottingham Forest. However, success in the championship under           Francesco Farioli allowed them to try their hand at the highest club level again. Fighting against the class of players of the opponent was the main task of Porto for this game. And at first the "dragons" frankly could not cope with him. City controlled the ball a lot in positional attacks and, against the background of this confident game, was in no rush to force events, so it did not create much intensity. We had to wait until the middle of the half, until Holland forced Diogo Kosta to pull the ball from under the crossbar with his first header of the game. And in general, one got the impression that the Norwegian was only allowed to complete the attacks in this way - from the second floor. Fortunately for Maresca's side, the forward didn't need many attempts and early in the second half he finished off Enzo's free-kick from the left. Although in fact, in a pair with Sherky, he should have scored a goal even before the break, but Diogu Kosta made several goal saves in one attack. After conceding a goal, Porto realized that it would no longer be possible to just sit on the defensive, and therefore decided to attack in return. And Farioli's team looked pretty good when it came to quick attacks on other people's goals. Even Alberta Costa, Varela and Gomez had quite good moments, but no one could put the finishing touches. Even when Donnarumma openly kicked the game outside his own penalty area in the heavy rain that continued from the very start whistle in Portugal. Somehow, City survived this difficult phase of the game for them until about the 85th minute, and then simply went for the second goal. Not on the first attempt, but Ait-Nuri's pass from the same left wing still found Holland, and it was almost the first time Erling did not have to put his head under a partner's pass in this game - a successful one-touch play at the end was enough. However, Mareska's team allowed the opponents to create a lot of moments near their own goal. In the next round, Portugal's Porto will visit Sevilla's Betis, while England's Manchester City will host France's Paris Saint-Germain. Porto — Manchester City 0:2 Goals: Holland, 47, 90+1 Porto: D. Costa — A. Costa, N. Perez, Quivor, M. Fernandez (Moura, 73) — Rosario, Varela (In-bom Hwang, 68), Veiga (Fofana, 83) — Gomez (Sains, 68), A. Silva (Jimenez, 73), Pepe. Manchester City: Donnarumma — Nunes, Diaz, Gei, Guardiol (Husanov, 48) — E. Fernandez, Buaddi (Kovačić, 75) — Semenyo (Ndiaye, 63), Sherky (Anderson, 62), Foden (Ait-Nouri, 75) — Holland. Warning: Rosario - Guardiol, Donnarumma, Holland