City bounced back from the Leicester defeat to beat Watford and then Arsenal at home – and they now have Newcastle and West Brom in consecutive home games. Win them, and this unpleasant afternoon will be swiftly forgotten.
Big game hunter
Leroy Sane has already beaten his goals tally from his debut season, scoring his tenth of the campaign at Anfield.
But there has been a feeling that the exciting fotbollströjor med eget tryck billigt young German has gone a little flat in recent months, making Ilkay Gundogan’s recent pronouncement, that he can be one of the best in the world, look a little distant.
But last season he scored big goals – against Arsenal home and away, against Spurs and in both legs against Monaco – while this year they have not been as consequential.
That is important for a player who aspires to be one of the natural Billiga Lewandowski tröjor successors to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, to be the elite of football’s next generation.
The sheer quality, and timing, of his goal at Anfield was a suggestion that he is back on track.