{"id":2575,"date":"2026-09-18T14:01:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2026-09-18T14:01:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T06:01:55","slug":"manchester-city-5-0-norwich-dancing-to-sambas-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/18\/manchester-city-5-0-norwich-dancing-to-sambas-beat\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City 5-0 Norwich: Dancing to Samba&#8217;s beat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-23.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-23.png 1000w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-23-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-23-767x431.png 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Manchester City lived up to their billing as overwhelming favourites, thrashing Norwich City 5-0 to book their place in the EFL Cup last 16, where they will face Brighton &amp; Hove Albion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The reigning champions, as anticipated, cruised past a Norwich City side currently languishing in 14th place in the Championship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The standout narrative of the evening was the emergence of 17-year-old German talent Floyd Samba, who spearheaded the victory with an eye-catching brace. The teenager broke the deadlock with a diving header before grabbing his second courtesy of a crisp, clinical right-footed finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rayan Cherki extended the cushion on the counter-attack, whilst Allan Elias made his Manchester City debut following his switch from Palmeiras, capping the milestone with his maiden goal. Fellow prodigy Ryan McAidoo then latched onto a clever dummy from Samba to seal the 5-0 rout of the &#8216;Canaries&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The &#8216;Sky Blues&#8217; will now take on Brighton &amp; Hove Albion, conquerors of Manchester United, in the last 16 of the EFL Cup.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City lived up to their billing as overwhelmi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions\/2577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dxtynews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}