That’s all from me. It’s been a blast. Bye!
A late own-goal gifted a heroic Huddersfield an unlikely half-time lead but Manchester City battled back to claim victory. Again.
Sun 26 Nov 2017 13.14 EST
First published on Sun 26 Nov 2017 10.00 EST- Final score: Huddersfield Town 1-2 Manchester City
- GOAL! Huddersfield 1-2 Manchester City (Sterling, 84 mins)
- GOAL! Huddersfield 1-1 Manchester City (Aguero penalty, 47 mins)
- Manchester City have a penalty!
- Half time: Huddersfield 1-0 Manchester City
- GOAL! Huddersfield 1-0 Manchester City (Otamendi own goal, 45+1 mins)
- The teams!
- Hello world!
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- Final score: Huddersfield Town 1-2 Manchester City
- GOAL! Huddersfield 1-2 Manchester City (Sterling, 84 mins)
- GOAL! Huddersfield 1-1 Manchester City (Aguero penalty, 47 mins)
- Manchester City have a penalty!
- Half time: Huddersfield 1-0 Manchester City
- GOAL! Huddersfield 1-0 Manchester City (Otamendi own goal, 45+1 mins)
- The teams!
- Hello world!
David Wagner has spoken:
I think the performance was good today. I think the players left everything on the grass. They’ve shown passion, desire, they’ve shown emotion as well. Of course we were a little bit unlucky because we conceded the penalty so soon after half-time, but you have to have the tight situations in your favour against a team like Man City. Performance good, result not so good. But we cannot expect a result, what we can expect is that we give everything and we perform. We’ve done this.
I think the referee has done his job. I think it was a fair game. Nothing where I have something to complain. Some decisions from our point of view are maybe not right. The referee said that I should calm down, but to be honest I was quite calm. There were no big decisions which were wrong today, maybe some small ones. This can always happen, so I think the referee has done his job.
I think we’ve shown a good defence shape, a good mindset, we looked solid, we looked very focused and concentrated over the majority of the time. Unfortunately not every single second, and a team like Manchester City is able to punish you if you don’t focus for every single second.
A couple of City players have done some talking. First, Vincent Kompany:
Today was what epitomises the Premier league. it’s a bit colder, it’s a bit harder to move the ball, and they defended well. They were strong in front and they had a gameplan. Today I feel the team deserved the win because we kept at it. You don’t ever go into the game thinking it’s not a big three points, but this one’s even bigger because we were 1-0 down and we ran out of options at some points. We were creating chances and then when they went 1-0 up it became a different game.
And Raheem Sterling:
We came in at half-time really disappointed. For myself and everyone in the dressing-room, we thought we could get something out of the game and that’s exactly what we’ve done. [For the penalty] I thought I was clear through on goal and felt the tug, and it was a clear penalty. I thought the one just before that was even more clear of a foul.
These are some scary statistics.
That was a terrific football match. City won by a flukey goal and a penalty to a flukey goal, but Huddersfield’s discipline and determination – at least until the final 15 minutes – was excellent, and made life extremely hard for the champions-elect. It’s hard to say that any individual City player was poor – Silva was below his best but far from terrible, and Aguero was a bit peripheral – but they were simply unable to flourish as a unit. That they still came out of that game with three points says much for their mettle.
Looks like a bit of pushing. Sane pushed VLP in the chest, and VLP pushed Sane in the face. No great violence, but a bit silly from both.
And Van La Parra has been sent off! It seems there was some kind of coming-together with Sane.
Leroy Sane is booked after the final whistle, and is now being ushered away from the officials and towards the tunnel.
Final score: Huddersfield Town 1-2 Manchester City
90+6 mins: After 14 seconds of additional stoppage time, the referee blows his whistle. It’s done!
90+5 mins: Sterling is fouled by Lowe near the corner flag. There have been a lot of stoppages in stoppage time.
90+4 mins: Otamendi is fouled by Mounie near the half-way line. Huddersfield have made the last couple of minutes pretty easy for City.
90+4 mins: Fernandinho is fouled on the half-way line, and City spend a slightly briefer age over the free kick.
90+3 mins: Gundogan is fouled by Williams inside his own half, and City spend an absolute age over the free kick.
90+2 mins: The clock ticks. City are forced into a blind, hopeful booted clearance.
90+1 mins: Into stoppage time, and there’ll be at least five minutes of it!
89 mins: A final City substitution: Silva is off, and Mangala is on.
87 mins: Then Silva fouls Mooy, and is booked. The Australian’s free kick bends round the wall, dips and ripples the side netting!
86 mins: Quaner nearly runs onto the ball in the penalty area, as Huddersfield set out to conjure an equaliser.
86 mins: Town bring Steve Mounie on in place of Hogg, and City bring Ilkay Hundogan on in place of Aguero.
GOAL! Huddersfield 1-2 Manchester City (Sterling, 84 mins)
City take the lead, and with a helping hand from pure luck! Sterling passes to De Bruyne, whose attempt to return it hits a defender and runs to Jesus, whose shot hits Lossl, bounces out, hits Sterling – who knows nothing about it – and rebounds in!
83 mins: Nope, they couldn’t. The corner’s headed out, sent back in, nodded down towards Quaner and claimed by Ederson.
82 mins: Quaner immediately wins a corner. They couldn’t, surely?
81 mins: Collin Quaner comes on for Ince.
80 mins: City bring on another forward, replacing Vincent Kompany with Gabriel Jesus.
79 mins: According to Sky, Huddersfield have hit 16 successful passes in this half. City have made 285.
77 mins: City pass the ball about for an age in Huddersfield’s half, but nowhere near their penalty area. Eventually Aguero hits it into Sane and they lose their momentum (but not possession).
74 mins: The home side’s first substitution sees Malone taken off, and Chris Lowe come on.
73 mins: Things have calmed down a little, and the match has reverted to the first-half theme of constant City probing and relatively little wild fouling.
70 mins: Silva is picked out in the penalty area, but after he turns and assesses his options he chips a cross straight to Lossl. “Fernandinho was surely taking evasive action?” suggests J Hopkin of that 63rd-minute booking for a dive. The leg-swing was wild enough to have worried him, for sure.
66 mins: Sterling is fouled again, by Van La Parra, and Huddersfield can hardly stop themselves kicking people at the moment. Moments later De Bruyne body-checks Van La Parra and, unlike Malone moments earlier, isn’t booked. They were almost identical offences. The crowd bays.
65 mins: And another booking, Scott Malone seeing yellow for a body-check on De Bruyne.
63 mins: De Bruyne passes to Fernandinho, who runs towards the area. Just as he reaches it Van La Parra swipes at him with a wild swish of the leg, but makes no contact with either player or ball. That doesn’t stop Fernandinho going down, though, and he’s booked for diving.
62 mins: The fourth official calls the referee over and they talk for a while, after which Craig Pawson tells David Wagner to calm down. This makes Town’s fans even angrier.
60 mins: Van la Parra and Walker run into each other. Absolutely nothing in it, and certainly didn’t look like a foul to me – by either player – but the fans are furious. This is probably because they’re still miffed about the penalty, but replays show it certainly was one.
57 mins: Sane hits the bar! The free kick clears the wall, dips and thwacks the woodwork, bouncing back out of the penalty area and to safety!
56 mins: Aguero, pushed wide to the right while all support is to his left, brilliantly checks back inside Zanka and Mooy and passes to Silva, who is tripped by Hogg. Hogg is booked, and City have a threatening free kick.
55 mins: Silva, in a bit too much of a hurry, scoops a shot high from 20 yards.
52 mins: Chance for City! Fernandinho pokes the ball through to Aguero, whose shot hits Lossl and rolls just wide.
51 mins: Sterling’s every touch is now being booed. He’s having quite a few of them, as City repeatedly probe down their right.
48 mins: It was Malone who conceded the penalty, tugging Sterling’s shirt. Not a lot, but Sterling didn’t need a second invitation.
GOAL! Huddersfield 1-1 Manchester City (Aguero penalty, 47 mins)
Aguero runs up very slowly, waits for Lossl to commit and sidefoots into the corner!
Manchester City have a penalty!
Sterling runs into the area again, and goes down again, and this time the referee points to the spot!
46 mins: The ball is played into the area, Sterling runs towards it and Lossl runs out to meet him, and the City player goes down. He wants a penalty, and the referee says no.
46 mins: Peeeeeep! They’re off! Again!
The players are big out. A big, and fascinating, 45 minutes ahead.
The goal was ludicrously against the run of play, of course. But the corner came from Delph being drawn out of position at left back, where his instincts are all muddled, giving Ince too much space to run down Town’s right. City will consider the goal a fluke, the result of the ball taking a defender by surprise and bouncing in the worst possible direction, but there’s more to it than that.
And counting.
Half time: Huddersfield 1-0 Manchester City
Before this game Manchester City had trailed for just eight minutes in away games this season. Make that eight minutes and about five seconds.
GOAL! Huddersfield 1-0 Manchester City (Otamendi own goal, 45+1 mins)
The ball is curled towards Schindler at the near post, and the ball brushes off the top of his head, hits Otamendi and goes in!
45+1 mins: Town’s first corner of the day is curled into the box, where Kompany heads just over his own bar!
45 mins: Ince is played into all sorts of space down the right, but with two players to pick out to his left – and plenty of defenders intent on stopping him – he hits the nearest black shirt. Corner.
43 mins: And a chance for City! Sterling crosses from the right to Fernandinho, who thwacks high!
41 mins: Chance for Huddersfield! A cross from the right is flicked on by Schindler at the near post and falls to Zanka, who has no time and knocks the ball wide.
40 mins: Sane puts a hand in Depoitre’s face. The reaction is over the top, and the referee does well not to react to the crowd’s fury.