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It’s not even December and already we have what feels like the first truly decisive moment of the Premier League season. Raheem Sterling has already surpassed expectations this campaign but this was truly an earth shuddering moment.
There was hardly a second left on the clock in added time. Southampton had come from behind to hold Manchester City at 1-1 and it seemed as though the home team’s lead at the top of the table was about to shrink from six to eight points.
With a game at second placed Manchester United to come a week on Sunday, there was a possibility of significant change in the wind. City had not played very well in winning at Huddersfield at the weekend and they had not played very well here.
But when Pep Guardiola’s team launched their final attack of five minutes of added time, the ball was funnelled patiently and purposefully to Sterling on the edge of the penalty area.
Sterling has been on a run recently, one of those streaks that makes a footballer feel as though he could turn water in to wine if only someone would ask him.
This time, though, the space just seemed too tight and there seemed to be too many bodies between the City forward and the goal for him to repeat recent late winners against Feyenoord and Huddersfield.
Once again, though, he did it. The right foot shot he curled from 18 yards had to be perfect. Southampton’s goalkeeper Fraser Forster is a huge man but this was indeed perfect - inch perfect - grazing the post as it beat the goalkeeper to his left.
As the ball nestled in the net, all hell broke loose at the Etihad Stadium.
This didn’t feel merely like a late November winner against Southampton, it felt much bigger than that. It felt vital and it felt extraordinary.
So as Sterling raced the length of the field in exultation he was pursued by team-mates and substitutes, even injured ones. Briefly Guardiola joined the melee. Rather like Roberto Mancini after Sergio Aguero’s title winner here in 2012, Guardiola didn’t really know what to do.
Later, after the full-time whistle, the Spaniard argued and jostled with Southampton’s Nathan Redmond as the two men left the field. That, in truth, looked a little ugly and unnecessary and we may not have heard the last of it.
But for now we will concentrate on the sheer glory of the football.
City had not been anywhere near their best once again but in a way that only magnifies the sense of what they ultimately managed to do. It’s one thing celebrating the big victories, the ones that are inevitable almost as soon as the game kicks off, quite another to celebrate those that are clutched from the jaws of disappointment.
Victories like this only add to the sense of confidence and invincibility that builds when a team is on a run like City’s. If you can win even when you are ordinary then what is there to fear?
Equally, nights like this can sap the belief from your opponents in the bigger picture. We have United to thank for giving us a title race at all. Without Jose Mourinho’s team this one would be over already.
But what will United make of this? Twice in four days, City looked set to slip up. Twice they have slammed the door in the face of United’s optimism and passages of games like this form part of the psychological narrative of a long season.
So at the end of it all, we are as we were. One day this will just look like another late goal by a very good team. In reality it was the conclusion of a game that seemed to have slipped from City’s grasp largely on the back of their own carelessness.
City had dominated the first half but Southampton missed two great chances. Wesley Hoedt headed against the bar and Maya Yoshida volleyed over, both from six yards.
Guardiola’s team also had opportunities and when Southampton defender Virgil van Dijk put through his own goal early in the second half it looked as though they would ease away. But Forster saved well from Gabriel Jesus and from Kevin de Bruyne while Aguero headed over. Another goal then and we would have been spared all the drama.
But City’s wastefulness allowed Southampton substitute Sofiane Boufal to embarrass Fabian Delph at the byline to set up Oriol Romeu beautifully and he equalises from 15 yards with quarter of an hour left.
A draw would not exactly have been a disaster for City but at United they would have smelled opportunity. Now that stench will only be one of inevitably. City have rolled on, somehow.
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Raheem Sterling scored a dramatic winner as Manchester City maintained their winning run with a last-gasp 2-1 defeat of Southampton.
The England forward – who netted a late clincher at Huddersfield on Sunday – curled home a superb injury-time strike for the Premier League leaders at the Etihad Stadium.
Saints had looked set to become the first team to deny City a victory since August when Oriol Romeu cancelled out Kevin De Bruyne’s deflected free kick 15 minutes from time.
But Sterling, who is developing a habit of scoring late, had other ideas with his 13th goal of the campaign securing City’s 12th successive league win and a club record 19th straight in all competitions.
Southampton had frustrated City by adopting a similar approach to Huddersfield – defending deep, absorbing pressure and looking to launch the occasional counter-attack.
Saints were also a threat at set-pieces and City were guilty of inviting pressure by conceding too many of them. Wesley Hoedt went close to opening the scoring when his header from a corner was deflected onto the bar and Maya Yoshida later volleyed over following another set-piece.
Between those chances, City – with Sergio Aguero and Gabriel Jesus up front but Leroy Sane out through illness – had a few of their own. Saints had Forster to thank for keeping them out.
Forster palmed away a good effort from Fernandinho, who had earlier driven wide, and made a double save to deny Aguero and Jesus.
Fernandinho also drove wide, Nicolas Otamendi headed over and Ilkay Gunodgan drove into the side-netting after Forster kept out another Jesus shot.
Southampton deliberately slowed the game, taking time over every dead ball situation. Shane Long also proved a niggly presence. Twice the Saints forward clashed with Vincent Kompany, the first time taking an arm in the face from the home captain and the second being hauled down as he looked to attack. Kompany was booked for the latter.
City finally broke through two minutes into the second half as De Bruyne whipped in a free kick. Confusion reigned for a while over how the ball actually ended up in the net with Otamendi initially claiming he had diverted it in after stooping for a low header.
The Argentinian, however, did not make contact and the final touch at the near post came off Van Dijk. Given that De Bruyne’s free kick was goalbound, this was regarded as a deflection and the Belgian credited with his fifth goal of the season.
City immediately looked for a second as Aguero played in Jesus but Forster denied the Brazilian with a fine save and then produced an even better stop to keep out a De Bruyne piledriver.
Those saves began to take on crucial importance as Saints grabbed a shock equaliser 15 minutes from time. Romeu smashed in a shot off the underside of the bar after Sofiane Boufal pulled the ball back from the byline.
It looked like being enough to deny City all three points until Sterling curled home to spark jubilant celebrations.
There were unusual scenes after the final whistle with City manager Pep Guardiola shouting at Southampton’s Nathan Redmond.
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For the third straight match,Raheem Sterling snatched victory at the death for Manchester City. It will surprise nobody they will be champions – no team in the Premier League has accumulated 40 points so quickly – but the finish demonstrated why.
There were five minutes of stoppage time for Southampton to have clung on to a point which their organisation and Fraser Forster’s goalkeeping had deserved. One winner had already been ruled out for a foul by Fernandinho when the ball came out to Sterling on the edge of the area with the whistle almost to the referee’s lips. Sterling had won the Champions League fixture with Feyenoord late on and he had snatched victory at Huddersfield on Sunday. Now, he curled a beautiful, unsaveable shot into the top corner of Forster’s net. This Sunday will see the first anniversary of the last time City lost a game of football in front of their own supporters.
Their manager’s customary cool disappeared with Sterling’s winner. Pep Guardiola punched the air and marched on the pitch to hug his players and, for reasons best known to himself, confront Nathan Redmond.
Despite the result, Southampton had played one of the best games of their season. Before the interval they had two clear opportunities to snatch the lead and had squandered both. That you imagined might be that but it was the leaders who paid for not taking their chances when Soufiane Boufal pulled the ball back for Oriol Romeu, who shot past Ederson.
At the Nou CampPellegrino had shared a dressing room with Guardiola for a season, which had seen Barcelona win La Liga by 11 points – the kind of gap you imagine Manchester City might have opened up come May.
He knew his opponent and made five changes for this match, saying his his team would have to run a lot more than they did in their last game, the 4-1 demolition of Everton. These appeared to be the kind of defeatist tactics adopted by managers of middling clubs coming to Old Trafford when Manchester United were in their pomp – they were bound to lose so it might be as well to rest players for the more winnable game to come.
That would be to do Southampton a considerable disservice. They had fought out a 1-1 draw here last season and as Wesley Hoedt’s header from Ryan Bertrand’s flicked-on corner clanged against the crossbar, they were inches from taking the lead.
The Dutchman was standing less than six yards out, marked by Kyle Walker, and you wondered if Southampton would have a better chance. Just after the half-hour mark, they got one. It was another corner and this time Maya Yoshida, standing roughly where Hoedt had been, stabbed his shot over.
Southampton were organised, disciplined and kept City in check as well as any of their supporters who had made the daunting late November drive from Hampshire to Manchester might have hoped. It still meant the Premier League leaders might have scored two or three before the interval.
While the electronic screens above him flashed out a series of daunting statistics about Manchester City’s season, Fraser Forster celebrated his 100th league appearance for Southampton by saving with his gloves from Fernandinho and his legs from Gabriel Jesus. Ilkay Gundogan’s shot sliced into the side-netting while Nicolas Otamendi headed into the crowd. His saves from De Bruyne and Jesus after the interval were even better.
One of the scary stats displayed as the teams walked off was that this season Manchester City had scored more second-half goals (27) than 18 clubs had in both halves. It took 91 seconds for that to become 28. Van Dijk and Otamendi stuck out muscular legs to meet a free-kick from De Bruyne, who was at the centre of most of Manchester City’s best work and the Dutchman’s connected before the Argentine’s, although De Bruyne was given the goal. Most of those who had paid vast sums for the fine-dining football experience called The Tunnel Club had yet to take their plushly upholstered seats for the restart. They all saw Sterling’s winner.
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Manchester City 2-1 Southampton: FIVE THINGS WE LEARNED
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Raheem Sterling scored a dramatic winner as Manchester City maintained their winning run with a last-gasp 2-1 defeat of Southampton.
The England forward - who netted a late clincher at Huddersfield on Sunday - curled home a superb injury-time strike for the Premier League leaders at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday night.
Saints had looked set to become the first team to deny City a victory since August when Oriol Romeu cancelled out Kevin De Bruyne’s deflected free-kick 15 minutes from time.
Here are five things we learned from the Premier League encounter.
David Silva might be a Manchester City ‘legend’ and still capable of playing every three days just a few months short of turning 32, but a day after eulogising about the gifted Spaniard, Pep Guardiola left him on the bench until the 74th minute.
City missed him too as they struggled for inspiration to break down a dogged and disciplined Southampton side in the first half.
The records keep on tumbling at the Etihad in this most promising of seasons for Manchester City.
Wednesday night’s win set a new league record of 12 straight victories for Pep Guardiola’s side, beating the previous best set under Manuel Pellegrini over two seasons between April and September in 2015.
Some might say this makes it 19 straight wins in all competitions, but that depends whether you include beating Wolves on penalties in the Carabao Cup.
Pep Guardiola’s friendship with Mauricio Pellegrino may stretch back to their one season together at Barcelona in 1998-99, but they were at odds on the half-hour mark when Vincent Kompany caught Shane Long in the fact with a trailing arm in front of the dugouts.
Pellegrino rushed to the touchline to appeal for a foul and it brought an angry reaction from his City counterpart. It was a difficult night for Kompany who was later booked for another foul on Long.
Pellegrino’s strategy was clear and worked very well. The Saints boss stuck with the same back five that played against Everton on Sunday, but made five changes elsewhere to pack the rest of his team with fresh legs. It allowed the visitors to chase down City and match the Premier League leaders for pace in a way that no other team has this season.
Fraser Forster became the second Southampton goalkeeper after Paul Jones to make a century of Premier League appearances for the club, and he certainly earned his money here.
Forster made a fine double save from Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus in the first half, and another from Jesus and Kevin De Bruyne in the second. He had no chance when Virgil van Dijk sliced the ball into his own goal just after half-time.
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Following the full-time whistle in Manchester City’s 2-1 win over Southampton, Pep Guardiola appeared to have a big rant against Nathan Redmond, shouting in the winger’s face.
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Saints, operating with a five-man defence and two strikers, looked solid throughout whilst carrying a counter-attacking threat with pace on the break.
The visitors even carved out the two best chances of the first half, only to fall behind to Kevin De Bruyne’s deflected free kick two minutes after the restart.
Fraser Forster made important saves from Gabriel Jesus and De Bruyne as City hunted a second, but Oriol Romeu pounced after a fine piece of play from substitute Sofiane Boufal to equalise with 15 minutes to go.
It looked like being enough to earn a point at the home of the runaway Premier League leaders, only for Sterling to curl in a heart-breaking winner in the sixth minute of added time.
Mauricio Pellegrino made five changes to his side, despite Sunday’s comprehensive 4-1 victory over Everton at St Mary’s.
The Saints boss switched to a 5-3-2 formation, with Maya Yoshida, Mario Lemina, Nathan Redmond, Shane Long and Romeu all handed opportunities from the start.
Steven Davis, James Ward-Prowse, Dušan Tadić, Sofiane Boufal and Charlie Austin were the unlucky quintet to miss out.
The game plan was clear. Saints were content to sit deep, with the midfielders cutting off spaces between the lines, but brave enough to leave Redmond and Long forward to pose a counter-attacking threat.
It was a tactic that threatened to pay dividends in the 15th minute, as Long escaped and crossed low towards his strike partner, only for Vincent Kompany to concede a corner.
From Ryan Bertrand’s delivery, Yoshida flicked on and Wesley Hoedt somehow contrived to head against the crossbar from no more than five yards.
It was a golden chance, but Saints could easily have found themselves behind within a matter of seconds, as City broke at frightening speed.
Sterling forced Forster to parry his shot, before Jesus reacted quickest on the rebound to send Forster stooping at his near post.
The Saints keeper was called upon to make another fairly routine stop, this time from Fernandinho, before De Bruyne’s fierce cross was headed over by Nicolas Otamendi from close range.
Having been contained in the early part of the game, City were beginning to purr. Forster denied Jesus with his legs and breathed a sigh of relief when Ilkay Gundogan sent the follow-up into the side-netting.
Saints may have been conceding the bulk of possession, but still posed a threat on the counter-attack.
Redmond combined with Lemina, who won a corner when Ederson shovelled his shot wide of the near post.
Set-pieces were presenting a problem for the hosts, who were worried again when Virgil van Dijk nodded down Redmond’s corner and Yoshida instinctively volleyed over from another very kind opening.
But all Saints’ good work would come undone just 77 seconds into the second half, as De Bruyne whipped in a free kick at pace from the left towards Otamendi that beat Forster via the shin of van Dijk at the near post.
Pellegrino spoke before kick-off about the need to stay in the game as long as possible, and Forster played his part by making his two best saves to date in quick succession.
First Sergio Aguero fed Jesus, who was impressively denied one on one by Forster’s outstretched left hand, before De Bruyne’s 25-yarder was plucked out of the top corner by the big shot-stopper.
Pellegrino introduced Boufal for Pierre-Emile Højbjerg in a bid to turn the tide, but sustained possession was proving even harder to come by since the opening goal.
There was always a chance Saints would get one opportunity to strike back, which duly arrived 15 minutes from time.
Bertrand’s deep cross from the left was brilliantly taken in his stride by Boufal, who skipped away from Kompany and pulled the ball back for Romeu, who kept his head to equalise with an emphatic finish off the underside of the crossbar from ten yards.
Pellegrino lost Cédric to injury with three minutes left, prompting a tactical reshuffle as Sam McQueen entered the fray, but Saints looked like holding on until Sterling curled home from 20 yards to spark jubilant scenes at the Etihad.
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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says his players and staff celebrated their last gasp win over Southampton together in the dressing room but admitted their opponents were difficult to play against.
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Raheem Sterling scored a dramatic late winner to help Manchester City beat Southampton 2-1 at the Etihad on Wednesday night and set a new club record of 12 Premier League wins in a row.
City opened the scoring thanks to Kevin De Bruyne’s driven free-kick which somehow made its way into the back of the net 77 seconds after half-time.
However, Southampton midfielder Oriol Romeu’s composed finish levelled matters 15 minutes from time, only for the home side to snatch all three points with the last kick of the game when Sterling curled home an exquisite winner.
As a result, Pep Guardiola’s side remain eight points clear of Manchester United at the top of the table, while the Saints are still in 11th place.
City started the contest at their usual frenetic pace, although it was actually the visitors who created the first real opening of the half just before the quarter-hour mark.
Nathan Redmond’s right-wing corner was flicked on at the near post by captain Maya Yoshida, only for his central-defensive partner Wesley Hoedt to head against the bar from a few yards out.
City then immediately broke upfield and worked the ball to Sterling on the left and after the winger had cut inside and tested Fraser Forster with a low effort, the goalkeeper did well to get up and keep out Gabriel Jesus’ shot from the rebound.
However, it was the Saints who went in disappointed at the break after spurning another presentable opening 10 minutes before half-time, and again it was a corner that caused City’s back line problems.
Virgil van Dijk rose highest to head the ball on, but Yoshida volleyed wastefully over the bar when it seemed easier to score.
And the visitors were made to pay for that miss within seconds of the second period when De Bruyne’s free kick from near the left-hand touchline was deflected past Forster by Van Dijk.
Southampton would not lie down, though, and after riding their luck on several occasions, drew level after some lovely skill in the area by substitute Sofiane Boufal, whose pull back was swept home from close range by the unmarked Romeu.
But as the game entered its sixth minute of injury time, Sterling and De Bruyne played a one-two on the edge of the area, before the England forward beat Forster with a brilliant effort into the top right-hand corner of the goal to spark jubilant scenes, his second late winner in the space of three days.
City’s haul of 40 points from their first 14 Premier League games this season is the joint-best tally ever at this stage of a top-flight campaign (also Tottenham in 1960/61 - based on three points for a win).
Southampton have picked up just one point from their last seven Premier League visits to the Etihad
Since his Premier League debut for City in September 2015, De Bruyne has had a hand in 51 goals in the competition (17 goals, 34 assists), more than any other midfielder in that time.
Romeu netted his first goals in his last 19 Premier League appearances, since netting against Chelsea in April
Sterling has been directly involved in 12 goals in his last 13 competitive appearances for Manchester City (10 goals, two assists)
As expected, the giant goalkeeper was a busy man at the Etihad, although sadly for the Saints his heroics in goal were not enough to earn his side a point.
The England international had to be on his toes to deny City in the first half, with his best stop one to keep out Raheem Sterling’s drive.
And it was more of the same after the break as the shot-stopper defied the likes of Gabriel Jesus, Kevin De Bruyne and finally Fernandinho with a succession of impressive saves.
And on that kind of form, England boss Gareth Southgate could very well take Forster on the plane to Russia 2018…
Pep Guardiola: "We have to be fair, the first half they had chances in the set pieces always, the first goal came from a throw-in. But we controlled the counterattack, we created chances enough to win the game. And by far we deserved to win the game.
“We celebrated with all the staff and players because we have to celebrate these kind of emotions and we are here for that. Of course, we will not lift the title as all the contenders won, but it is not enough. So when you live these kind of experiences, you have to do it, tomorrow rest and then we will prepare for West Ham on Sunday.”
Mauricio Pellegrino: "It is difficult to digest when you play 99.9 per cent of the game more or less in the way we planned before. But they have a lot of quality, they do not need too much to score.
“They scored an amazing goal and we have to congratulate the opponent. And we have to be proud in the way we competed against a really, really good side, and maybe at this moment one of the best team in the world. But at the same time we have to use this game as were really competitive and thinking about the future we can play against stronger teams, and we can be really, really difficult for them.”
City host West Ham United at the Etihad on Sunday afternoon, while earlier that day Southampton travel to Bournemouth, with both matches live on Sky Sports Premier League.
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Southampton boss Mauricio Pellegrino says their pre-match plan almost worked after they lost to Manchester City in stoppage time.
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What Pep Guardiola said to Nathan Redmond in furious full-time altercation
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Pep Guardiola was involved in a furious-looking full-time altercation with Nathan Redmond following Manchester City’s dramatic win over Southampton on Wednesday night.
Raheem Sterling scored a 96th minute winner as the hosts won the clash 2-1.
Following the final whistle, Guardiola stormed over to Redmond, proceeded to shout at the Saints star, wrapped his arm around his neck and put his hands on his chest.
The Spaniard was visibly agitated by the 23-year-old. And just as the City boss was walking away he turned round to say something else to the England winger.
Redmond uttered some words back under his hands and remained calm throughout.
During his post-match interview, Guardiola claimed he was telling Redmond that he was wasting time from the ninth minute.
Guardiola told Match of the Day: "I was telling Nathan Redmond how good he is at the end. Southampton have some super talented players, Redmond is so good one against one.
“But they didn’t’ want to play, they were time wasting from the ninth minute. I just wanted them to play.”
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The visitors were heading for a deserved point after the midfielder rounded off a sweeping team move involving Ryan Bertrand and Sofiane Boufal only for Raheem Sterling to break Saints’ hearts in the fifth minute of added time.
For the returning Romeu, Mauricio Pellegrino’s men were compact and tenacious in defence, threatening on the counter-attack and “did almost everything” to earn a point, or perhaps even more in Manchester.
“We fought until the very end and they scored an amazing goal in the final seconds of the game. It is so difficult to cover the spaces when City have so many dangerous forwards and maybe we gave (Raheem) Sterling too much space to score.
“Our performance was very good and we should be happy with what we did in spite of the result. I’m sure we will look at all the positives tomorrow.
“For the goal, (Sofiane) Boufal was so composed to take the touch and pick me out and I was completely free to finish. It gave us the belief to go on and win the game but it just wasn’t to be; it was a great move but it didn’t give us what we wanted at full-time.
“Defending well and working hard against City will give us confidence but it doesn’t mean the next game will be easier than this. We need to keep the same intensity, shape and mentality that we showed here.”
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Pep Guardiola was involved in a furious row with Nathan Redmond following Man City’s dramatic 2-1 win over Southampton on Wednesday night.
Raheem Sterling scored a dramatic injury-time winner at the Etihad Stadium as City extended their lead at the top of the Premier League to eight points - and their manager celebrated the goal wildly.
However, he came on the pitch after the full-time whistle and put his arm around Southampton forward Redmond to speak to him.
The pair were then captured on camera exchanging angry words with Guardiola gesturing wildly in the face of the player.
A smiling Redmond covered his mouth as he uttered some words, prompting more anger from the City boss.
Discussing the incident with Sky Sports afterwards, Guardiola said: "No discussions. We just talk about how good a player he is and how quality he is.
“Redmond and Sofiane Boufal are players who today just defended, but they are players with a lot of quality.”
You can see the strange incident in the video at the top of the page.
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