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title: "Manchester City: Fans react to Raheem Sterling’s one-on-one miss against Atalanta"
canonical: "https://www.footballtransfertavern.com/manchester-city-fans-react-to-raheem-sterlings-one-on-one-miss-against-atalanta/"
type: "post"
language: "en-GB"
author: "Liam Togher"
section: "Manchester City Football Club"
published: "2019-10-23T17:25:14Z"
modified: "2019-10-23T17:25:14Z"
---

# Manchester City: Fans react to Raheem Sterling’s one-on-one miss against Atalanta

**Raheem Sterling helped himself to a hat-trick in Manchester City’s 5-1 win over Atalanta in the Champions League last night, with his [treble coming inside 11 second-half minutes](https://www.skysports.com/football/man-city-vs-atalanta/report/420375).**

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The 24-year-old also [provided the assist](https://www.whoscored.com/Matches/1426914/Live/Europe-UEFA-Champions-League-2019-2020-Manchester-City-Atalanta) for Sergio Aguero’s first-half equaliser and he now has [12 goals to his name in just 13 club appearances this season](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/raheem-sterling/leistungsdaten/spieler/134425), almost halfway to matching his 2018/19 tally of 25 goals already.

Even though he registered his [second hat-trick of the season](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/raheem-sterling/leistungsdaten/spieler/134425) in last night’s victory, he ought to have added a fourth goal to his tally, only to [shoot wide when through one-on-one](https://www.skysports.com/football/man-city-vs-atalanta/report/420375) with Atalanta goalkeeper Pierluigi Gollini in the 75th minute.

Manchester City’s official Twitter channel [@ManCity](https://twitter.com/ManCity/status/1186743069556772864) informed followers of the missed opportunity with the capitalised caption ‘He is human’.

> 75\. HE IS HUMAN! Sterling races through one on one and has a chance to make it six but fails to convert
>
> 5-1 [#ManCity](https://twitter.com/hashtag/ManCity?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
>
> — Manchester City (@ManCity) [October 22, 2019](https://twitter.com/ManCity/status/1186743069556772864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Sterling has scored 16 goals in total for club and country since the beginning of August when his [four for England in recent weeks](https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/raheem-sterling/nationalmannschaft/spieler/134425/verein_id/3299) are taken into account, with Rio Ferdinand claiming on [BT Sport](https://sport.bt.com/) \[[via Manchester Evening News](https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/sport/football/man-city-news-raheem-sterling-17129573)\] that he is outperforming the likes of Eden Hazard and Philippe Coutinho.

These Manchester City fans on Twitter still saw fit to chide Sterling for his one-on-one miss last night, some of them going for a tongue-in-cheek approach:

> Not ruthless enough! More more more. Put em to the sword.
>
> — Benny Mokhalinyane (@benny81blanco) [October 22, 2019](https://twitter.com/benny81blanco/status/1186743382246383616?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> That is sterling\
> We need consistency
>
> — Immanuel Ajinaab Akanpiem (@Ajinaab\_Imma) [October 22, 2019](https://twitter.com/Ajinaab_Imma/status/1186743554040840192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> What a miss,not good enough,sterling out
>
> — mahrezone (@pr1ncemahrez) [October 22, 2019](https://twitter.com/pr1ncemahrez/status/1186743192810655745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> That’s the sterling we all know
>
> — Morrisz (@Morriisz) [October 22, 2019](https://twitter.com/Morriisz/status/1186743195000082432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> sterling out
>
> — Hannah (@xxhannah\_11xx) [October 22, 2019](https://twitter.com/xxhannah_11xx/status/1186743245554012160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

> he needs to get better at 1 on 1’s, and generally situations where he has more than 2 seconds to think.. great player, but still room for improvement if we need him in a CF role.
>
> — AL14 x EM31 (@Lzporte) [October 22, 2019](https://twitter.com/Lzporte/status/1186743534780588033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

***What did you make of Sterling’s display against Atalanta? Is he the best player in England on current form? Let us know what you think by commenting below!***