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#3 Angelino endures challenging time on first Premier League start
Today marked Angelino's first Premier League start for Manchester City. The 22-year-old Spaniard - signed for £10m from PSV in July - initially joined the Cityzens' youth set-up back in 2013 from Deportivo. Despite impressing in the youth set-up and on various loan spells, City opted to cash in with PSV Eindhoven among numerous European sides interested - considering they couldn't guarantee him first-team minutes at the time.
16 months down the line and November 2, Angelino was excitedly preparing for his first league start. It's been a long time coming indeed. Ward-Prowse's goal after 13 minutes - despite not being at fault - quickly made it a nightmare start.
So a positional change with different responsibilities, seeing as City were now behind, was necessary. It granted Angelino the license to fly forward and create another wide option for Southampton to contend with, as overlapping opportunities and the quality of his deliveries also tested over the 90 minutes.
Despite lofting a promising chance towards Aguero's path early on, his crossing was largely inaccurate or easily dealt with. That's unsurprising given City don't possess the height or aerial expertise to justify flooding the opposition area with crosses galore.
However, he persisted and needed to during a game where you'd wonder if they would ever score at times such was their dominance without reward. He won five duels, completed one tackle and clearance while recording a game-high 118 touches with 81.7% pass success rate. This wasn't the game to hide and Angelino played a pivotal role late on, too.
His cross created all kinds of indecision in the box between McCarthy, his defenders and ultimately Walker's improvised finish saw them snatch all three points - holding their nerve in dramatic fashion. All things considered, this baptism of fire should stand him in good stead with tougher fixtures coming thick-and-fast.
