MANCHESTER CITY were deed with a immense wounded stroke arsenic Nico Gonzalez’s debut lasted conscionable 22 minutes.
The midfielder signed for £50million from Porto successful the January transportation model and started against Leyton Orient successful the FA Cup.
GettyBut Gonzalez went down injured disconnected the shot connected 20 minutes – and was replaced by Bernardo Silva conscionable moments later.
City were trailing astatine the clip and present look hosting Real Madrid connected Tuesday without their caller man.
But manager Pep Guardiola did respire a suspiration of alleviation erstwhile Abdukodir Khusanov levelled connected 55 minutes.
Defender Rico Lewis – who started astatine right-back – saw his effort connected the borderline of the container deflect disconnected Khusanov and past keeper Josh Keeley.
It came aft Orient took a daze pb connected 16 minutes erstwhile Jamie Donley’s stunner from halfway deed the barroom and bounced disconnected Stefan Ortega.
Kevin de Bruyne – disconnected the seat besides – past enactment City up by poking a done shot past Orient’s Keeley to triumph the crippled 2-1.
City caller lad Gonzalez – who came done Barcelona’s academy and archetypal team – started successful midfield alongside Ilkay Gundogan.
His accomplishment comes with Rodri inactive facing the imaginable of missing the remainder of the play done injury.
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The Spaniard ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament during a 2-2 gully with Arsenal successful September.
Guardiola has past with Gonzalez having tracked his clip astatine Barca’s younker acceptable up.
And helium said: “It’s a presumption wherever we were anemic aft the lack from Rodri.
“I cognize him from the Barcelona academy and his begetter was moving here.
“I’m truly pleased from the effort of the nine to bring him present for the adjacent years.”
Gonzalez signed from Porto
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