EXTENDED HIGHLIGHTS | Man City 2-1 Bournemouth | Premier League returns with dramatic win!

So, a new era truly begins. After more than ten years, we face a Premier League fixture without Pep Guardiola. His throne now occupied by Enzo Maresca, who today presides over his first Premier League game as City's new boss, and he's first here at the Etihad Stadium. A momentous day at the start of a fascinating season, which feels like the beginning of a new and exciting chapter. The ball is with Guardiola, on it goes to Haaland, Haaland's away. Scampering down the middle, hungry for success once again. Edge of the area, plays it into Foden, onto Lewis. Oh, brilliant football. Great transition, brilliant the way they play out from the back. And as the ball's played to Foden, brilliant back heel into the path of Lewis. Tries to just lift it over Petrovic. O'Reilly comes forward down the left-hand side. Keeps on running down that left-hand side. Gets into the edge of the penalty area, clips it in. Haaland! Oh, I'm not sure what he did there. I'm not sure if it came off his chest in the end. Well, it's a fabulous run from O'Reilly. You can see galloping down that left-hand side. He's looking for the options, there's not too many to see. Just there, he picks out Haaland. He can't get enough of a contact to bundle it over the line in the end. Wonderful ball. Yeah, just hits him in the lower stomach. Can't turn it in the back of the neck. City have some defending to do. And Donald Rummer has to make a save. Well, it was fortuitous, really. It was a couple of ricochets and it suddenly broke for Ryan. Had a very tight angle to shoot from. Gay down the inside left position. Brings in Semenyuk. Semenyuk trying to get to the byline. And he does do. Oh, and he was just tackled. Wow, what's been given? Well, kick. Interesting. It's a corner kick. If this was a World Cup game, it would have been given as a corner by VAR. They don't intervene if it's an attacking mistake, so to speak. Only two new rules for this season that you've got to keep across. Intriguingly, one of them is there's no towels allowed round the pitch. There's one. To stop people drying the ball. Anyway, it's down the right-hand side. City have got some defending to do. And it's a goal. Tavernier scored. Across into the penalty area. And Tavernier has tucked it in at the far post. And Bournemouth hit the front in the 26th minute. Ali, I've got to say, it was really slick from Bournemouth. Yeah, it was good football. Quality goal. Remember, Bournemouth haven't lost an away game in 2026. O'Reilly on to Semenyuk down the left-hand side. City trailing. Semenyuk trod on the ball. Remember, against his former club, Semenyuk. Then he wins the ball back, Semenyuk. Gets to the byline, Semenyuk. And then he's muscled out of it. And City say penalty. And the referee says no. They're deeming that that's not enough. With Smith's right arm pulling the right shoulder of Semenyuk as he drives past him. Can City find an equaliser before half-time? They certainly merit it. Diaz pops it into the box. Haaland's glancing header. Saved by Petrovic's corner. He's really pulling and pushing with Silva, but gets the glancing header that Petrovic does well to turn round. Anderson to Haaland, into the gap for Gueye. Good football from City. On it goes to Semenyuk in the left-wing position. Semenyuk, well, that's a good piece of defending by Smith. And he's won a corner. Semenyuk off Smith. 51st minute, Sidonil Bournemouth won. Anderson whips it in right-footed, and... Oh, what a chance! Gueye in the back of the net, the ball didn't follow him. Oh, it was a golden opportunity, and it's been squandered. I don't think you get a better chance than that from a set-piece, do you? The goalkeeper was nowhere. Petrovic. Played nicely out of trouble, Bournemouth. City win it back, though, with Gueye. Gueye plays it in. And now Guardiola, and now Scherke. And now Semenyuk, Semenyuk! Good save by Petrovic. Up into the air it goes, and cleared. Now City coming forward with Matias Nunes. On it goes, good ball, Foden. Foden now into the penalty area. Foden back on the inside. And now it's with Matias Nunes, and now it's with Scherke. And on it goes to Haaland, and it's over the crossbar. Well, opportunities to shoot passed up, and in the end it's scooped over. And now with Mark Gueye. And now it's with Foden in the right-wing position. On towards Gueye, into the penalty area. Gueye clips it! Haaland mishits it! And Petrovic saves it. Never got enough power on it, did Haaland. And it was another good run from Mark Gueye. And Jack Grealish is about to come on, but not before a yellow card is brandished. And it was to Foden, for a foul. Did he have to defend this set-piece? Swung into the box. And glanced on, and Donnarumma saves! Denies Jefferson. They've had one attack in the second half, and they've nearly scored from it. Grealish up against Smith. Comes back on the inside, Jack Grealish. Looking up all the time. Taps it into Kuzinov. Kuzinov into the gap for Matias Nunes. Nunes in the penalty area, corner for City. Cherki, whips it in left footed. Gueye with a header! Mark Gueye atones. He should have put City level earlier. Now he does. And maybe, just maybe, City can turn this around and win it. Good delivery, and Mark Gueye does what he should have done. You're absolutely right. But this time, thunders the header into the back of the net. There's time, there's plenty of time to win this game. City fans baying for a winner. Up goes the fourth officials' board. Three! What on earth? Three? That's ridiculous. How many substitutions have there been on their own? Never mind the time wasting. Cherki on the edge of the area. Cherki through. Chance. Scores! Offside, offside, offside. Bardial put it in. Offside. Won't count. Just what we were looking for. Wonderful Cherki footwork. We'll see it from this angle. Work to him on the edge of the box. Twist, turns, little drag back here. And then he toes it through. He's onside. Oh, it's a mistake. I think it's a goal. I think this will stand. The VAR has got an angle we've just seen. It might just go City's way. I think he's in line. I really do. Yes, here we go. Goal! Here we go. City have won it through Josco Bardial. City have turned it around and they've won. Well, what a contribution from Cherki. The substitute has made it. It's brilliant work. Footwork here. Precise pass. Hill playing Bardial on. Gets it out of his feet and rolls it into the bottom corner. We're into the last few seconds and now I'm delighted that there was only three added minutes at the Etihad Stadium. They've got it right. The officials have got something right. They've got something right. Still we go on. Brielish has got it. Back to Cherki. Cherki tries to come back on the inside. There it is. A never. City begin the Maresco era with a win. The final score, City 2 Bournemouth 1.