Man City beat Aston Villa 4-1, with Phil Foden showing his skills once again.
Phil Foden is not just a benchwarmer for Manchester City, he’s been killing it with his amazing skills. And he proved his worth once again with a stellar performance against Aston Villa.
Pep Guardiola still astounds the audience by holding De Bruyne and Haaland, who are key propagators, away from the starting eleven. Consequently, even though some notable absentees were noticeable, Phil Foden’s shining performance made them not feel and the amazing 4-1 scoreline demonstrated that the absence problem was easily sorted.
In their absence, City will be relying on Riyad Mahrez and Erling Haaland’s worries! Foden himself was on fire as he had replaced Sergio Aguero, so Manchester didn’t look back.
Even though De Bruyne and Haaland tend to be the first team players to grab the focus, Foden has indeed, made an indication that he is just as qualified to be amongst the first team players in City who are falling under Guardiola’s manual.
Such a great display by Man Coming close to their most brilliant level in the match. Today’s match was great, with Foden being the most outstanding player and Rodri, too, playing well.
He is learning to count differently from now as the main players are within the dressing room.
Faced with a choice, Pep Guardiola broke with the orthodox view and chose to sit his newly acquired Haaland on the bench. His choice instead was to give the Green of England freedom to run around in the number 10 position, in an unfamiliar way.
Foden completely reaffirmed the grounds of the coach’s confidence in him, proving why Guardiola likes him so much. It was Haaland, who has endured some negative media spotlight of late, who had the unenviable job of watching the match from the sidelines along with Mount.
This is when the action takes place without the help of the star players, but Guadiola gets someone to command the team. Foden merely made the effort and ceased being the sole source of soul revitalization for the club.
Foden’s three goals were all different: a free-kick trick that he took to the goal post just before halftime, a neat finish that moved them further ahead, and an unstoppable shot that completely blew away Villa’s goalkeeper Olsen.
Since the youngster is an individual who was and who will always be a goal scorer – or as Guardiola said, he is simply loaded with goals “going in his veins”.
This was his second hat-trick this term, peaking his total of goals, 21, from midfield, which is great and the highest ever for him in his career. The 23 years is already a legend mark in City; his first direct free-kick goal is a testimony to that.
At that moment, it looked like it could have been the night that showed Pep Guardiola and City the bad side of football since they had played unrealistically against the team of Mikel Arteta – 0:0.
Throughout the match, we feared that our first-half performance might give us problems but thanks to Foden’s goals, all worries on Wednesday were gone as Man City flew to victory showing the audience the team flow, adopting the beat of the game, and carrying a threat in them.
The young player outshone City’s return to its older form.
It is necessary to mention that a 25-yr attacking midfielder from Manchester City Phil Foden made an important contribution with his performance, demonstrating to those, who doubted their abilities to perform well after Arsenal won, just how much they can be able to fight their way back to winning the title at this stage of the championship.
Foden’s performance helped City to keep the equilibrium of the Champions League journey and finally defeated the opponent with a victorious score. The loud applause that gathered around when he was substituted at the 80th minute was just a small gesture of the recognition those fans had for him.
The managerial abilities of Pep Guardiola, who is known for being precise and attentive, were evident when he saw that Foden was on the wrong track initially. Nevertheless, he highly complimented his actions by reasoning, “He can do anything he puts his mind to; as long as he’s consistent, he can become a truly top-level player.”
Guardiola likewise pinpointed Foden’s missing area defense, finally because of the athlete’s focus on distraction. Notwithstanding that, however, Pep Guardiola, in particular, highly appreciated Foden for his extraordinary efforts, outstandingly playing in the central position.
Foden’s presence in the starting lineup was key to City getting back on the right track, with a clear message going to the other teams that they were still a team to be reckoned with in terms of the title defense.
Theo Walcott, a former England forward, heaped praise upon Phil Foden, who he says has learned from the proximity to the more experienced players and his managers like Bernardo Silva, David Silva, Pep Guardiola, and Kevin de Bruyne.
Walcott considered Foden to be one of the best players in the Premiere League at age 23. He highlighted the following qualities of Foden such as his maturity and knowledge of the game play giving the impression of an exceptional talent aged exactly 30 years.
He focused mostly on how exceptionally talented the boy of eighteen was and somewhat on the club’s relationship, them being his childhood city and him growing through the academy.
As De Bruyne and Haaland are expected to return soon, the heat is rapidly getting on for City, as the Premier League title race heats up with Arsenal and Liverpool seeming to be right behind the Citizens.
Nevertheless, the correspondent observes that Foden could be the very important piece that would bring the City title back to Etihad causing the same rejoicing, as the last time, when Pep’s team did it.
