“I always loved to prove people wrong”, Toure told the BBC.
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Brighton & Hove Albion could be unchanged from the team that beat Manchester United on Friday.
The only patients in Brighton’s medical room are long-term absentees, Izzy Brown, who has been sidelined since January, and Steve Sidwell, who has not featured this term due to a back injury.
Toure has won several Premier League titles, as well as several domestic cups during his eight-year stay in Manchester, and he’ll be given the captain’s armband for tonight’s final home game of the season against Brighton. “When I faced him, I knew he was very good on the ball and could pass it around me if he wanted to”. I remember when Kun [Aguero] was in great form and Gabriel Jesus was not playing and not happy as he was not being picked, I took him to one side and gave him a pat on the back.
Toure also hinted that he’d be very keen to remain in the Premier League once his City contract expires this summer, with – of all clubs – Burnley rumoured to be interested in acquiring his services on a freebie. “He will decide what is best for him”.
City started brightly, with Christopher Schindler clearing off his line from a scramble at a Leroy Sané corner, but otherwise Huddersfield defended manfully and substitute Scott Malone might even have snatched a dramatic injury-time victor for the visitors.
Toure helped make City a destination club. “I love Aguero. This guy is such a good striker”.
Right from the start he has played a huge part in helping them win trophies, scoring the victor in the FA Cup semi-final against Manchester United in 2011, and doing the same against Stoke in that year’s final.
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City also won the League Cup this season, but was eliminated from the Champions League in the quarterfinals.
With a victory over Southampton on the season’s final day Sunday, City would become the first team with 100 points in a Premier League season.
They equalled the top-flight record of 31 wins in a season, held by Tottenham Hotspur from their 1960-61 campaign.
Pep Guardiola’s side are two goals shy of breaking Chelsea’s Premier League record of 103 in a single season. That’s true, when I came to City, for them to be a big club, we had to put them in the shadow.
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