Pep Guardiola has been left impressed by Manchester City's new-found ability earn points after falling behind.
City have been tested a lot this season already. They were 3-1 down to Newcastle United before managing to fight back to 3-3 and had to come from two goals behind to defeat Crystal Palace. The same thing happened on the final day of last season when they had to turn around a two-goal deficit against Aston Villa to clinch the Premier League title.
City were given yet another fright on Wednesday but managed to maintain their undefeated streak as they came from behind to defeat Borussia Dortmund in their second Champions League group game. A resolute Dortmund frustrated City and deservedly took the lead when Jude Bellingham nodded in Marco Reus' powerful cross.
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A wonder strike from John Stones dragged City level late on and the inevitable Erling Haaland turned in Joao Cancelo's excellent cross to leave them in pole position for early qualification for the knock-out stages.
Guardiola has pointed out how his side wasn't as resilient after falling behind when he first joined the club. He said: "The first years I was here we would never ever come back. We did not have the ability to come back.
"And now against Aston Villa [when we] were champions, West Ham, Newcastle, Crystal Palace. We can create momentums, Julian helped us, one extra body in the box.
"They defend the pockets really well with Bellingham and Ozak but the problem was we didn’t play with the rhythm, I try to tell them it is not done. Sule and Hummels, when you play with Bayern Munich you have to be a good player."
Guardiola also explained what went wrong against Dortmund before his side managed to rescue the win. "We struggled," he continued. "We played in the wrong gear and we are who we are, we can win or lose, when we play the last 35 mins we realise okay we are 1-0 down and subs come on and give a new rhythm. After you can lose but this is who we are, Champions League doesn’t wait, it doesn’t forgive you.
"We were not in the right tempo. The goal from John Stones, in the first half John Stones does not shoot but in that moment we were in the right rhythm. John was in the right rhythm and make an exceptional goal. We cannot make the 60-65 minutes we play, we are a different team.
"It is not about winning or losing, every day you have to perform well. It is a good lesson winning because we are in the perfect position, all respect for Copenhagen but we have six points, against Copenhagen we have the chance to go through and focus on Premier League."
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