MANCHESTER CITY - VALENCIA CF (OFFICIAL POST)

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VALENCIA Amunt.

City signed off pre-season in fine style in front of their own fans.

The Blues put their recent inconsistencies behind them to record a 2-0 win thanks to a first half Gareth Barry goal and another late in the game from Jo.

It was a taxing enough night to be the ideal warm up ahead of the trip to Spurs next Saturday lunchtime, a game that kicks-off the whole Barclays Premier League season.

Perhaps there were some clues as to what will happen next Saturday lunchtime in the City starting line up but then again...

In any case Joe Hart started in goal, Boateng, De Jong, Silva and Tevez all returned after their enforced post-World Cup lay off, the later as captain and the side had a youthful and powerful look about it.

That was confirmed in the early stages against a Spanish side that had played 24 hours earlier in a 0-0 draw at Villa.

In the first ten minutes Tevez? chip through sent in the marauding Micah Richards whose right foot volley was tipped around post. Moments later Yaya?s 25-yarder was touched beyond the same upright by the busy and accomplished Moya.


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Thirty-five minutes in and a goal to the good, Mancini had seen enough of the clearly not match fit Tevez and Silver and the two ? with little or no pre-season under their belts ? made way for England duo Shaun Wright-Phillips and Adam Johnson.

There were three more changes at the break and even more through the second half and because of that the game lacked some rhythm but City were never in danger of losing their lead with Shay Given - apart from one smart late stop - as underemployed as Hart was in the first half.

Instead what the 27,000 crowd saw were some fine passing movements from the home side, the odd bit of wing wizardry from Adam Johnson and a wonderful curling left footed effort from Jo that thudded against the base of the post.

Then came the second goal and it was Brazil's Jo who scored it from a tight angle after a fine one-two between Adam Johnson and Patrick Vieira opened up Valencia.

CITY: Hart (Given 46), Richards, Boateng (Kolo Toure 46), Kompany (Ibrahim 78), Kolarov (Cunningham 73); De Jong (Vieira 46m), Barry (Weiss 68), Yaya Toure (Lescott 62), Silver (Wright-Phillips 36m), Tevez (Johnson 36m) and Adebayor (Jo 73).

VALENCIA (Start): Moya, Miguel, Del Horno, Navarro, Dealbert, M. Topal, Joaquin, T. Costa, Soldado, Ever and Pablo H

Valencia failed his second test in England Manchester City to a superior who wanted to demonstrate its strong commitment for the new season and benefited from the lack of forcefulness in Unai Emery's team.

The Valencian test began today in the City of Manchester Stadium without a clear direction which allowed more arrivals to-door to the new World Cup team-ex David Silva-Valencia, for which he served this friendly presentation.

A goal by Gareth Barry in the 33rd minute confirmed what had been waiting since the start of game by the lack of creativity on the part of Valencia.

Although Emery kept the same game system, in the second half the team came out eager Mestalla at least achieve a draw, for which it sought to develop good passes and collaborations among his men.

An excellent example was the partnership formed by Joaquin and soldiers, who resumed five minutes of the match produced the greatest threat to the City, with a pass affixed by the Andalusian his strike partner.

The resurgence of Valencia was also evident in the game-pieces, with two corner kicks in your favor very often that finally did little to shorten lead.

After yesterday's goalless draw against Aston Villa, Valencia this morning made a smooth workout in a field next to the stadium of Manchester City, with which his former participant David Silva began to warm up "for four days."

The player confessed canary Efe that today's match had something special, despite being a preseason friendly, since Valencia is "the club in which I have always been and that has given me everything."

"But it's a game of preparation and I have to get the rhythm," said internationally, whose aspiration for the new season is "to win titles" with a club "is betting on strong."

Also stormed ownership along with the "blues" Argentine striker Carlos Tevez, who has recently confirmed its desire to continue at Manchester City despite the criticism last season on the training methods of Italian coach.

However, the second goal of his team reached by the Brazilian Joao Alves in the 84th minute because of a defensive mismatch Valencia that sparked the euphoria of the home crowd and prompted even a fan jumped onto the field.

The ball approached the goal by the band of Michael and David Navarro, precisely the most solid throughout the game and to which British opponents were not so easy to rob.

Roberto Mancini wanted to rotate his players and that made ten changes, while the Spanish crew highlighted the international debut of Juan Mata, Valencia was missing only to be shown this spring.

Valencia will return this evening to the capital of Turia on a plane direct from Manchester and have two days off until his return to training on Tuesday before facing his final pre-season test in a triangular with Palermo and Napoli .

Manchester City has bent (2-0) at Valencia in a friendly match played in the English city and has served for the Spanish international David Silva for the first time he would face his former teammates in a meeting that decided the goals Gareth Barry and Jo Alves.

The group led by Unai Emery, who continues with his set-up in British land-goalless draw against Aston Villa on Friday, "has failed with the home side, still displaying his extensive staff to a week that Premier League start. Gareth Barry, head, and Jo in the closing stages of the match, handed the whole''che''their third defeat of the season.

And is that on the lawn of the City of Manchester have faced two teams that are the antithesis economically. On the one hand, a Valencia was forced to sell two of its stars, David Villa and Silva himself, to deal with their debts and secondly, the club has spent more signings this summer, about 100 million euros.

One of the players signed by the City's Yaya Toure. The midfielder, from Barcelona, had the first chance of the match in the 12th minute but Moya cleared to his distant corner shot. However, at 28 games, was a center of Boateng header to the network by Gareth Barry, who took advantage of poor output Valencia keeper.

After the goal, Silva, the hero of the day, had time to prove their quality before being substituted on 35 minutes was able to score but his shot from outside the area was slightly off. After the break, both teams put up less and one was Jo who, five to go, put the sentence to finish off a cross from the Vieira.