Sunday, 5 February 2017

Gabriel Jesus at the double as Manchester City leave it late to beat Swansea

This came close to being the same old unwanted story for Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City. Until Gabriel Jesus’s 92nd-minute winner it seemed yet again an inability to finish sides off plus problematic defending would cost them.

First half brilliant, second half not: this was the pattern for Manchester City in a match they should have secured before the break. Instead, as with the 1-1 draws with Everton, Southampton and Middlesbrough in consecutive outings in the autumn, Guardiola came close to ruing yet another three points that got away.

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from Football | The Guardian http://ift.tt/2kai61a