(Brentford-Manchester City 0-1) With their tenth straight league win, Manchester City may be in the process of deciding the Premier League. Phil Foden (21) was back and scored the winning goal.
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The Manchester City team can thus celebrate the New Year with an eight-point gap to table-toppers Chelsea, who failed to win against Brighton.
This is the fourth time under Pep Guardiola that Manchester City play ten or more games in a row with only victories, reports the statistics service OptaJoe, which states that no other managers in Premier League history have more than two separate periods with ten or more victories in a row.
– It looks good. But when it’s Christmas, you just have to keep your foot on the gas and stay focused, says Foden to TV 2 and Amazon Prime.
When asked if this is the best City team he has played for, the 21-year-old answers shyly:
– Yes, that’s probably it.
Pep Guardiola is happy but cautious:
– We have now won ten games in a row, but there are still 54 points to play for. No one will be champion at the end of December, says the Manchester City boss in an interview shown on TV 2.
Guardiola’s men have had an insane calendar year 2021: 67 games – 53 wins, two draws and 12 losses.
The downside was that there was a loss in the Champions League final against Chelsea (0-1).
In the Premier League, on the other hand, it was gold by a margin of 12 points to city rival Manchester United. The basis for the league title was laid through super games in January and February.
–In the league, the sky blue has 36 wins, two draws and six losses in 2021.
Manchester City have been in an impressive period lately. They had scored 17 goals in their last three league games before coming to Brentford on Wednesday night. The hosts defended with beaks and claws and limited the loss to 0-1.
The last point loss for Manchester City came with the 0-2 loss against Crystal Palace on October 30.
Phil “hi weld” Foden had this time gained confidence from the start by manager Guardiola, and he equalized by putting in 1-0 after just over a quarter of an hour in the first half. Kevin De Bruyne actually noted his first league assist of the season with his great performance – and Foden’s finish was no worse.
– It is a pleasure to see De Bruyne’s pass, says Erik Thorstvedt on the TV 2 broadcast.
– He is so good technically, says Simen Stamsø-Møller about the end of the Foot.
–The foot barely avoided being blown offside, the replay showed.
– I have had some cancellations this year, so I was not sure. I thought I went a little too early, but thank god it was a goal, says Foden to Amazon Prime.
Of the 34 players who have scored at least five Premier League goals this season, Foden is the one with the highest percentage of away goals. Four of his five hits have come away, ie 80 percent.
City’s 1-0 score came right after hosts Brentford had a mega opportunity to take the lead.
Brentford had only won two of their last ten league games beforehand, and they failed to improve that statistic against league leaders Manchester City. The hosts went out in a won 3-5-2 formation, but after City had the ball about 80 percent of the time, they were pushed back.
Towards the end of the first half, there were two episodes where Fernandinho was first ugly against Ivan Toney, then Toney took revenge on Fernandinho. But the referee chose to leave the cards in his pocket.
– It is a purported revenge action, Thorstvedt says on the TV 2 broadcast.
Brentford did not give up and worked heroically in the hope of getting points – but Manchester City resisted.
Aymeric Laporte headed in what he thought was 2-0 at the end, but the goal was correctly canceled out for offside.
– We did not create much, but it is so difficult here, says Pep Guardiola in an interview shown on TV 2.
– Gutta ga alt. We did a really good match. It is difficult for the top teams to get here to Brentford.
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