{"id":133505,"date":"2025-08-10T04:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/133505\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T04:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:47:18","slug":"reijnders-brace-sees-man-city-ease-past-palermo-in-preseason-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/133505\/","title":{"rendered":"Reijnders brace sees Man City ease past Palermo in preseason tie"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Tijjani Reijnders <\/a>brace and an Erling Haaland<\/a> goal saw Manchester City<\/a> defeat Palermo<\/a> 3-0 in their final preseason match.<\/p>\n

Unlike most of their Premier League<\/a> counterparts this weekend, City travelled for their final preparations ahead of the new season.<\/p>\n

They proved too much for their Serie B<\/a> opponents, easing past them with a goal in each half.<\/p>\n

Haaland opened the scoring when getting on the end of a Rico Lewis<\/a> pass to slot into the bottom left corner after 25 minutes.<\/p>\n

City made 10 changes at half-time, with Haaland the only starter to come back out in the second half.<\/p>\n

Tijjani Reijnders scored his first two Manchester City goals.\u00a0Maurizio Lagana\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

One of those replacements was Reijnders, who came on to score his first goal since his move from <\/a>AC Milan<\/a> earlier this summer<\/a>, when smashing home after receiving a Savinho<\/a> pass.<\/p>\n

Haaland was eventually replaced after an hour by 17-year-old Divine Mukasa in his first senior Manchester City start.<\/p>\n

Mukasa made his presence felt, finding Reijnders running into space, and the Netherlands midfielder slotted home for his second of the night.<\/p>\n

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The win was City’s only preseason clash, after a shock exit at the last 16 stage of the Club World Cup<\/a> last month to Al Hilal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

They now prepare for their Premier League opener against Wolves<\/a> on Aug. 16, before their first home match against Tottenham<\/a> on Aug. 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Tijjani Reijnders brace and an Erling Haaland goal saw Manchester City defeat Palermo 3-0 in their final…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":133506,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-133505","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115002660781099884","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}