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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Scott Murray

Southampton 1-1 Manchester City: Premier League – as it happened

Aymeric Laporte celebrates after heading the equaliser.
Aymeric Laporte celebrates after heading the equaliser. Photograph: Matthew Ashton - AMA/Getty Images

That’s your lot, then. Ben Fisher’s report is here. Thanks for reading this MBM. Stay safe and warm. Nighty night!

Pep talks. “It was an outstanding game. We conceded a goal, but made one of the best performances of the season. By far. If you analyse the result, it was 1-1. But how we played, how we behaved, it was excellent. We played better than the Arsenal game, which we won, but we draw. Sometimes you deserve it, sometimes you don’t. We played really, really well. Southampton are a really good team. We were brilliant in many things today. I said before, we are going to drop points. But the way we behaved was good. Now the positive thing is that people will say the title race is not over, and that is good for our side. It was not over two weeks ago, now, or in three weeks. Many tough games ahead of us. I would like to be 40 points ahead of Liverpool and Chelsea, that would be a dream, but that is not possible in January.” He also straight bats questions about the possible transfer of River Plate forward Julián Álvarez. No scoop here!

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