We tried to score and fortunately we got another goal.
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– Are City playing well enough to win the title? The Ivorian provided energy and drive throughout and it was his determination that brought about the victor. “We probably did create more chances than City, that’s the difference between the teams at top of the league and at the bottom”. He rewarded his manager’s faith with a goal against his former club.
Ivorien worldwide, Yaya Toure, has charged that his deflected effort in stoppage-time against Swansea was credited to kelechi Iheanacho. Swans forward Wayne Routledge received a well placed through ball from Gylfi Sigurdsson near the center of the field, made a run that split the City defense and blasted a shot from within the penalty box to the left hand side, only for Joe Hart to produce a fantastic save to keep things at 0-0.
“That was our fifth game in 15 days, it was important to win this game – now we’ll see what happens at the top of the table”.
“Again, two set plays, like against Wolfsburg (who beat United 3-2 on Tuesday), and that’s not normal for us”, Van Gaal told Sky Sports.
“I think we certainly deserved to get something out of the game, and certainly when we equalised I thought we were going to hang in there”, Curtis said. We have lost managers in the past but this felt much more personal.
Not for the first time it had seemed a case of City struggling to find top gear after European exertions with Raheem Sterling, the hero of the midweek win over Borussia Monchengladbach, one of the disappointments. “If we maintain this we will get out of trouble”.
Crystal Palace continued their best start to a Premier League season with Yohan Cabaye’s goal earning them a 1-0 win over Southampton and elevating them to sixth in the table, just six points off the lead.
Norwich City fought back to draw 1-1 with Everton after Romelu Lukaku scored on Saturday for the sixth successive Premier League match to give the visitors an early lead.
A beaming Manuel Pellegrini described this last-gasp victory as “ugly”, then stated this season’s topsy-turvy Premier League might be secured by fewer than 80 points for the first time this millennium.
Caretaker boss Alan Curtis and the rest of the bench leapt to their feet as Gomis finally broke through but the joy didn’t last long as Toure found space out on the right and his curling shot took a deflection and looped over Lukasz Fabianksi.
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“I was anxious before the game because I knew that three of our players were not 100 per cent recovered, especially Kevin [De Bruyne] that couldn’t play, David [Silva] that could play just 60 minutes and after you have an important achievement as we did in the week, also to restart the motivation in this game is not easy”.
