By Daily Sports on November 3, 2019

Manchester City prepared for next weekend’s top of the Premier League table clash against Liverpool by coming from behind for a nervous 2-1 victory over struggling Southampton on Saturday

Right-back Kyle Walker was the unlikely hero as he volleyed in an 87th minute winner to the champions’ relief.

At that stage, with league leaders Liverpool trailing against Aston Villa, City were facing the prospect of cutting the gap at the top of the table ot just three points.

However, Jurgen Klopp’s side pulled off an even more dramatic comeback to win 2-1 at Villa Park and maintain their six-point cushion.

“It happens a lot of time, Liverpool winning because of their talent,” said City boss Pep Guardiola.

“If they win a lot of games in the last minutes, it’s because they are special characters.

“In the first season we won the title, we got 100 points and won four or five games in the last minute; last season we won more comfortably. This (win) is like the first year.”

Given City’s much-vaunted attacking arsenal, Walker was the surprise hero of the victory, setting up an equaliser for Sergio Aguero, to cancel out James Ward-Prowse’s opening goal, and then scoring the late winner himself.

Angelino, making his first league start for City, unleashed a dangerous cross which keeper Alex McCarthy palmed unconvincingly away from goal but the ball sat up kindly for Walker who slid in to meet it with a volley which flew into the open net from eight yards.

It capped an eventful game in which City enjoyed near-total domination but, unexpectedly, fell behind to Southampton’s first real attack of the game on 12 minutes.

Danny Ings’ through ball found Nathan Redmond who, in turn, picked out Stuart Armstrong to unleash a powerful shot from the edge of the City area.

It should have been nothing more than a routine save for Ederson but the Brazilian fumbled the ball, allowing the alert Ward-Prowse to respond first and hook the ball past the stranded keeper. (ESPN)

•PHOTO: Man City players

Source Daily Sports

Posted November 3, 2019

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