Semenyo scrambles Man City: 5-3 vs Sunderland with Brobbey on fire

Manchester City kept their nerve in a chaotic 5-3 win over Sunderland at the Etihad, moving three points clear of Arsenal as the Premier League heads into a three-week international break. In a high-turnover, incident-packed game, Antoine Semenyo scored two goals for Enzo Maresca’s side, while Brian Brobbey delivered the standout show for Sunderland with a hat-trick.

Leaders, but messy

As The Guardian reports, the victory was thrilling, yet it also left questions. City didn’t consistently manage the game’s control and were repeatedly punished during spells of risky defending and loose execution in moments when they should have slowed things down.

The scoring opened with Sunderland finding a way through a break from a corner, ending with a foul on Iliman Ndiaye. Soon after, City replied: Enzo Fernández produced the key free-kick finish from the right, The Guardian notes, marking his first goal since the World Cup semi-final with Argentina against England.

Semenyo seals it

With the match swinging back and forth, the second half didn’t calm down either. Sunderland stayed aggressive, and City again had to respond rather than dictate. Late on, Jérémy Doku supplied the sequence that led to the decisive 5-3, with VAR overturning an offside call after review.

After the final whistle, Semenyo summed up the team effort: “Collectively we did what we could, fought together and got the three points,” according to The Guardian. The win also means the runners-up from last season are on five wins from five, and for now City are back in the driving seat.