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Foden Saves Man City

ESPN FC

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Sports, Soccer

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The FC crew reacts to Manchester City squeaking out a win against Leeds as Phil Foden picks up form. Then, discussion on Tottenham's loss against Fulham and whether Spurs have the right coach to lead them. Plus, Barcelona and Atlético Madrid pick up wins ahead of their clash midweek. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome into the latest edition of ESPN FC. I'm Dan Thomas.

0:07.0

Joined by Shaka Histop as we kick things off in the Premier League.

0:10.0

Manchester City are second now after a 3-2 victory over Leeds.

0:14.0

But if you're a city fan, more worries really than any sort of optimism after this game.

0:19.0

2-0, cruising at halftime. Open the door though, let let leads get back into it. It's 2-2 going into injury time. And in the end, it's Phil Foden, who is the hero. Here's long-range strike late on, gives City all three points. For the moment, they sit second in the table, but not really in the conversation to fight Arsenal all the way given what we've seen over recent weeks.

0:40.3

For more on this, let's welcome in, Don Hutchinson, shall we?

0:43.3

It's weird, Don, I can go either way with this. You can say,

0:46.3

Oh, great spirit from Manchester City, getting that last minute goal and getting the win.

0:50.3

But it's really difficult to be positive about a side who are two-0 up and cruising and then just seemed to completely and utterly capitulate.

0:59.0

Correct, Dan. And I was trying to think would Arsenal allow that, this Arsenal team, they wouldn't. I think of Arsenal would 2-0 up at half time.

1:05.3

You'd see them go and win the game 3, 4 without any drama. It was strange because before the game, Harlan's on 99 goals, trying to set the record for 100. Phil Foden scores inside of a minute that I'm thinking, right, this is a Guardiola side in the past that would have hit Leeds for 5 or 6. They got the second on about 25 minutes and you're thinking right, second half, they're going to come out and they're going to take the game and they're going to walk all over Leeds. As Shaka said before, credit Daniel Farker a little bit, you know, he changed his system from a back four to a back three, got his wing backs up the pitch, they pressed and they rattled City. Then all of a sudden at 2-2, City were in a world of trouble and they got the win from a brilliant strike from Phil Foden. But it left me coming away from the game thinking that's not a city side that I think can

1:48.2

chase down Arsenal win the league.

1:50.2

Not on that performance, not on the performance that they gave against Newcastle.

1:54.3

But that performance today was more worrying.

1:56.7

I think the city fans come away from the game thinking glad they got the three points.

2:00.7

Pep will be delighted, but inside he'll be furious at the performance. That's the thing, isn't it? This isn't an anomaly. This is a Manchester City cruising and all of a sudden they've dropped the ball. You could say maybe as Arsenal did he in Sunderland. This was poor, it was poor against By 11 because it poor against Newcastle. and it's difficult to put up an argument as to why this team is going to fight all the way to the end with Arsenal.

2:20.3

I'm not sure that this team has that in them. And I say this, and again, give Farka credit, give Leeds credit for their comeback and at least making a game of this, it should have been four or five at half time. The first half was really that

2:35.7

easy for Manchester City. And just before the break, Sete missed another chance. Again, could

2:41.6

have quite easily been five in the first half. And there's shots of Rinders and a couple of other

2:46.1

city players kind of laughing about it. And while you can't be too critical of players being relaxed on the field,

2:53.3

you don't do that and then throw away a two-go lead.

2:56.5

From a time you throw away that two-go lead,

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