Manchester City had to play with the right amount of anger and disappointment to complete their 2-1 comeback win over Fulham on Saturday, according to Pep Guardiola.
City appeared to be on track for a straightforward home win – their seventh in succession – when Julian Alvarez smashed in after 17 minutes to give them the lead. But Joao Cancelo’s red card in the 28th minute, for muscling Harry Wilson off the ball in the box, turned the game on its head.
Andreas Pereira slotted in the resulting penalty to make it 1-1 and Fulham dug in deep to try and secure the point. Erling Haaland came off the bench in the 64th minute and thought he had scored the winner from Kevin De Bruyne’s cross, only for the goal to be ruled out by VAR.
