Sign up now ><\/a><\/p>\nGuglielmo Vicario of Tottenham Hotspur is challenged by Raul Jimenez of Fulham. Photo by Justin Setterfield\/Getty ImagesSource: Getty Images<\/p>\n
LAST-GASP GOAL SPARES MAN CITY\u2019S BLUSHES <\/p>\n
Phil Foden spared Manchester City\u2019s blushes with a last-gasp winner after the Premier League title challengers blew a two-goal lead in a dramatic 3-2 win over lowly Leeds on Saturday. <\/p>\n
Pep Guardiola\u2019s side were in danger of losing more ground in the title race following a second-half collapse at the Etihad Stadium. <\/p>\n
Foden and Josko Gvardiol put City two up before the interval, but third-bottom Leeds hit back through Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Lukas Nmecha. <\/p>\n
Foden clinched a nerve-jangling victory that lifted City into second place, four points behind leaders Arsenal, who travel to third-placed Chelsea on Sunday. <\/p>\n
It was a much-needed win after consecutive defeats against Newcastle last weekend and Bayer Leverkusen on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a relief,\u201d Guardiola said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe game was not perfect in the first half but it should be over with the chances we had.<\/p>\n
\u201cFootball is emotions. We conceded the second and after we made a step up. In the end it\u2019s the quality of Phil.\u201d<\/p>\n
Foden nets 91st minute winner | 02:27<\/p>\n
Guardiola\u2019s decision to make 10 changes against Leverkusen backfired in a 2-0 loss that prompted the furious Spaniard to claim his players \u201cdidn\u2019t try\u201d. <\/p>\n
Foden, Erling Haaland, Bernardo Silva, Gianluigi Donnarumma were among the stars back in City\u2019s starting line-up for the Leeds clash. <\/p>\n
City had made their worst start to a campaign for five years and their second-worst under Guardiola.<\/p>\n
But they took just 59 seconds to move in front as Foden fired a close-range strike in off the bar.<\/p>\n
Leeds had no answer to City\u2019s slick start and Gvardiol looked to have put the hosts in complete control with a tap-in from Nico O\u2019Reilly\u2019s header in the 25th minute. <\/p>\n
Calvert-Lewin made an immediate impact after coming off the bench, reducing the deficit with a clinical finish after pouncing on Matheus Nunes\u2019 woeful pass inside the City area in the 49th minute. <\/p>\n
Leeds equalised in the 68th minute when Nmecha\u2019s penalty – awarded for Gvardiol\u2019s foul on Calvert-Lewin – was saved by Donnarumma before the forward recovered to score from the rebound. <\/p>\n
In stoppage-time, Foden cleverly made room in the area for an ice-cool finish as Guardiola breathed a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n
Leeds\u2019 sixth defeat in their last seven matches increased the pressure on manager Daniel Farke.<\/p>\n
NEWCASTLE\u2019S BIRTHDAY GIFT FOR BOSS<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, Newcastle celebrated boss Eddie Howe\u2019s 48th birthday with a 4-1 rout of Everton at the Hill Dickinson Stadium.<\/p>\n
A first away league win since April 7 was the ideal present for Howe, whose side made an explosive start when Malick Thiaw headed home from Lewis Miley\u2019s corner after just 52 seconds. <\/p>\n
It was the fastest goal in the Premier League this season. <\/p>\n
Beaten in their previous four away games, Newcastle netted again in the 25th minute when Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford allowed Miley\u2019s shot to squirm past his woeful attempted save. <\/p>\n
Everton looked exhausted after playing with 10 men for much of Monday\u2019s win at Manchester United, when Senegal midfielder Idrissa Gueye was sent off for slapping teammate Michael Keane. <\/p>\n
Nick Woltemade made it three with a cheeky chip over Pickford in the 45th minute.<\/p>\n
Thiaw\u2019s 58th-minute header added to Everton\u2019s misery and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall\u2019s 70th-minute eye-catching strike was little consolation for David Moyes\u2019 men. <\/p>\n
Brentford striker Igor Thiago reached 11 league goals this season as his double fuelled a 3-1 win against second-bottom Burnley in west London. <\/p>\n
Igor Thiago and Zian Flemming traded penalties late in the second half, before the Brazilian bagged his second in the 86th minute and Dango Ouattara put the result beyond doubt in stoppage-time. <\/p>\n
Sunderland climbed to fourth place after fighting back from two goals down to beat Bournemouth 3-2 at the Stadium of Light.<\/p>\n
Amine Adli and Tyler Adams, with an audacious effort from the half-way line, scored for Bournemouth in the first half.<\/p>\n
But Enzo Le Fee\u2019s 30th-minute penalty was followed by Bertrand Traore 46th-minute equaliser.<\/p>\n
Brian Brobbey completed Sunderland\u2019s stirring revival, heading in Le Fee\u2019s cross in the 69th minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham fans turned on Guglielmo Vicario after the Spurs goalkeeper conceded two early goals in Saturday\u2019s Premier League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-317301","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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