Pep Guardiola 'relieved' after Phil Foden's stoppage-time winner against Leeds

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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola told the media during a press conference that it was a "relief" to see his side go through to a 3-2 victory after Phil Foden netted the stoppage-time goal.City had come into the game off back-to-back defeats against Newcastle and Bayer Leverkusen, and conceding a two-goal lead to draw against a relegation-threatened side would have been another huge blow to their title credentials.

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00:00Our city is relieved when scoring the last minute and the other one is a big character, right?

00:06It was a relief, yeah.

00:09It was a relief.

00:10The game was not the perfect place in the first half, but it was comfortable.

00:15It should be over for the chances that we had.

00:17We then conceded, and after that brilliantly Daniel changed the system like Leverkusen has done, 5-3-2.

00:24And after that we conceded the goal we gave away in the first minute, and after the away we had to move.

00:29And football is a motion, and that moment is a motion, conceded the second, but after we make a step up and we react really, really well.

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