Key events
90 mins: Incredible miss from O’Reilly! Bernardo Silva’s shot deflects to him, in front of goal, five yards out and with nothing much to do except smash it in. He kind of gently, apologetically flubs it to Dubravka.
90 mins: Really this has felt like a game in which City were always going to do precisely whatever they needed to.
89 mins: Another shot from Haaland. Bernardo Silva’s shot deflects off Esteve to the City striker, but his effort is underpowered and Dubravka gathers.
87 mins: More substitutions, Tresor and Edwards coming on for Anthony and Laurent.
86 mins: Yet another City corner, and this one is kind of cleared, City recycle the ball, faff around on the edge of the box for a bit and finally play it back to Nico Gonzalez, who shoots just wide.
84 mins: Having started the night in midfield before moving to left-back after Ait-Nouri’s substitution, O’Reilly now seems to have redeployed to the attack.
82 mins: Two more Burnley substitutions see Flemming and Humphreys go off, and Broja and Florentino come on.
80 mins: Chance! Well, of sorts! Cherki pulls back to Haaland, but the ball comes to him at knee height, a bit behind him and very quickly, and he can’t improvise a shot on target.
79 mins: City win their 804th corner, but they take it short, mess around for a while and don’t achieve very much.
76 mins: Nearly a thing for Burnley! They break and it’s two on two briefly, but the ball is played to the feet of Flemming and that, in this game at least, is where attacks go to die.
76 mins: The City fans make their own entertainment, with a chorus of Blue Moon. Their team continue to control the game in a strangely dull way.
73 mins: The second half has been a bit slow, really, with neither side showing much urgency. But Burnley must score if they are to keep alive their slender hopes of avoiding relegation, and presumably desperation will have to set in at some point.
71 mins: Burnley take off Tchaouna and bring on Lyle Foster to bolster their attack.
71 mins: That corner leads to another corner, which leads to a Cherki shot, dragged wide from 25 yards.
70 mins: Save! Doku’s cross somehow evades Haaland but it runs through to Savinho, whose low shot is turned round the post.
68 mins: Cherki flicks the ball up and tries to pop a little loopy cross into the area, but it hits a defender and only loops as far as Dubravka.
65 mins: The night’s first substitutions, and they see City take off Ait-Nouri and Semenyo, and bring on Nico Gonzalexz and Savinho.
64 mins: Ward-Prowse plants a foot on top of one of Bernardo Silva’s inside the penalty area. Entirely accidental, clearly, but the Portuguese goes down. Nothing doing.
63 mins: It’s a challenge, this, for the liveblogger. Ordinarily when a team starts an attack you’ll wait for it to finish before posting an update, but sometimes with City this can take five minutes or so.
60 mins: Then at the other end Ward-Prowse’s free-kick is partially cleared, allowing Hartman to demonstrate what happens when he has a wild swing of his left boot. Goal kick.
58 mins: A wild swing of Doku’s right boot from 20 yards or so sends the ball whizzing over the bar. Guardiola looks disgusted.
55 mins: Haaland hits the post! Esteve’s tackle takes the ball away from Semenyo but sends it rolling to the giant Norwegian, who prods it across goal and out of play off the outside of the far post.
53 mins: It’s been a bit scrappy thus far, this half. City yet to rediscover the extreme composure they showed in the first, and/or Burnley disrupting them more successfully.
50 mins: For a moment it looks like Flemming’s flick is going to release Anthony, but Khusanov and Matheus Nunes combine to snuff out the chance at the expense of a corner.
49 mins: Cherki runs with the ball towards the Burnley area from halfway before passing a little too far ahead of Semenyo, who stretches to control and then stretches again to shoot over the bar.
47 mins: Burnley give the ball away in their defensive third, but City only convert it into an optimistic Semenyo shot, which hits a defender before it can not particularly worry Dubravka.
46 mins: City do in the end turn up, allowing Burnley to restart the game.
Burnley’s players are back out, and waiting for City to turn up for the second half.
In tonight’s other Premier League game it’s currently Bournemouth 0-0 Leeds United. Niall McVeigh is providing regular updates from that one, and games across the Football League, here:
Just the 66% of possession for City, and 13 shots (six on target) to Burnley’s five (one). By almost any metric it’s been extremely one-sided. But for all that Flemming has twice been played clean through, or near enough. There’s not a lot of hope here for Arsenal, but there isn’t none either.
Half time: Burnley 0-1 Manchester City
45+3 mins: That is half time, and City take a slender lead into it.
45+1 mins: There’ll be two minutes of stoppage time, and they start with a free-kick on the right and then, when it’s sent into the area but refuses to drop to either Humphreys or Ekdal, a corner.
45 mins: Quite an odd half of football, this: 10 wild minutes at the start, and then 35 that have largely involved City players passing the ball slowly between themselves.
42 mins: A lovely through ball to Doku, who crosses towards Haaland, but Esteve gets there first and clears. Haaland roars with frustration. He’s not in the defender-gets-there-first business.
39 mins: A fifth corner for City. They’re absolutely bossing this game, but Burnley have also had two or three decent chances, so there’s life in it yet. For now.
37 mins: Cherki has a bad first touch. I repeat, we have witnessed a mildly disappointing first touch from Rayan Cherki.
35 mins: Cherki goes on a 70-yard run into the area before trying to tee up Haaland, but the striker went to the far post rather than the near and Burnley clear. Then Bernardo Silva taps back to Ait-Nouri, who has little time but for all that it’s a fine chance, which he profoundly wastes.
32 mins: He’s OK, and play resumes with a City corner, which Tchaouna clears.
