Marmoush Bags A Hatrick As Manchester City Trash Newcastle
Omar Marmoush is off the mark!!
As the new Manchester City singning scored a sensational first-half hat-trick to sink Newcastle United as the Egyptian announced himself.
Substitute James McAtee added a late fourth as City made light work of their visitors, although the day was not perfect for Pep Guardiola as Erling Haaland limped off near the end with what appeared to be a right knee injury, just four days before City’s Champions League play-off second leg in Madrid.
The result propelled City to fourth in the table and saw Newcastle slip back to seventh.
Marmoush while speaking after the gemae, said: “Amazing day, the feeling is crazy. And the three points, we came in from the first minute and got the job done. It was all fast paced, I was really happy to help the team.
“I also have to thank my team-mates, the coach and staff, everyone helped me from the first day making me feel part of this family.
“It was an amazing atmosphere, I would like to thank the fans for the really nice applause.”
On the “other end, Newcatsle manager, Eddie Howe, said: “It was a tough day at the office – they played well, we didn’t. The goals were poor moments, we will have to analyse them and work out what we could do better.
“From the off we were lacking in duels, the physical side. Man City are so good in the build-up, to disrupt that you have to be exceptional physically and we weren’t.
“We can’t look for excuses, there are a load of reasons we could look at, but the players should have been fresh and ready to perform, they didn’t.
“We’ve got some tough games, the fixture list will test us. We have to dust ourselves off for next week.”
