Manchester City Survive Thriller, Beat Fulham 5-4: Reaction & Media

What a win for Manchester City! A truly tale of two halves as the team was at one point up 5-1, then let Fulham get the jump on them for most of the second half. The win means City cement itself near the top of the table and live to fight fully for the title.

Great performances by Haaland, Foden and Reijnders and this a winning night even if we came close to a disastrous one.

On to the reaction-

Pep Guardiola Reaction

“It’s the Premier League you can’t control it. It’s the Premier League. 

“I know you’re going to ask what happened – I don’t have an answer! It’s the Premier League, right? Football is emotions. Why do this? Why do that?

“All the goals were bad defending on the edge, we went so deep to defend these kind of crosses, we have to occupy the spaces better. But we made incredibly good things, against how difficult that team is.

“Scoring the goals we scored, with the quality we have, and the way we defended – but after, Erling [Haaland] had t””he chance to make it 6-3, and a minute later it’s 5-4!

“When that happens, it’s just a question of surviving. Don’t ask me how, the players don’t know either, you need luck – and at the end we take it!

“For sure he’s one of the best [Premier League strikers of all time.

“For the strikers, it’s a question of numbers and his numbers have no discussions.

“You are British right and you bring the best strikers to this country, so Erling is one of them.

“I am happy for him and happy for the team to deliver this day for him.

“And let’s continue.

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