That’s all from me. It’s been a blast. Bye!
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David Wagner has spoken:
I think the performance was good today. I think the players left everything on the grass. They’ve shown passion, desire, they’ve shown emotion as well. Of course we were a little bit unlucky because we conceded the penalty so soon after half-time, but you have to have the tight situations in your favour against a team like Man City. Performance good, result not so good. But we cannot expect a result, what we can expect is that we give everything and we perform. We’ve done this.
I think the referee has done his job. I think it was a fair game. Nothing where I have something to complain. Some decisions from our point of view are maybe not right. The referee said that I should calm down, but to be honest I was quite calm. There were no big decisions which were wrong today, maybe some small ones. This can always happen, so I think the referee has done his job.
I think we’ve shown a good defence shape, a good mindset, we looked solid, we looked very focused and concentrated over the majority of the time. Unfortunately not every single second, and a team like Manchester City is able to punish you if you don’t focus for every single second.
A couple of City players have done some talking. First, Vincent Kompany:
Today was what epitomises the Premier league. it’s a bit colder, it’s a bit harder to move the ball, and they defended well. They were strong in front and they had a gameplan. Today I feel the team deserved the win because we kept at it. You don’t ever go into the game thinking it’s not a big three points, but this one’s even bigger because we were 1-0 down and we ran out of options at some points. We were creating chances and then when they went 1-0 up it became a different game.
And Raheem Sterling:
We came in at half-time really disappointed. For myself and everyone in the dressing-room, we thought we could get something out of the game and that’s exactly what we’ve done. [For the penalty] I thought I was clear through on goal and felt the tug, and it was a clear penalty. I thought the one just before that was even more clear of a foul.
These are some scary statistics.
11th successive @premierleague away win - a new record!
— Manchester City (@ManCity) November 26, 2017
25 games unbeaten (all comps)
18 wins in a row (all comps)
First PL away win in 22 years after losing at half time
Best ever start by a PL team
City. pic.twitter.com/UhNrnqSNhv
That was a terrific football match. City won by a flukey goal and a penalty to a flukey goal, but Huddersfield’s discipline and determination – at least until the final 15 minutes – was excellent, and made life extremely hard for the champions-elect. It’s hard to say that any individual City player was poor – Silva was below his best but far from terrible, and Aguero was a bit peripheral – but they were simply unable to flourish as a unit. That they still came out of that game with three points says much for their mettle.
Looks like a bit of pushing. Sane pushed VLP in the chest, and VLP pushed Sane in the face. No great violence, but a bit silly from both.
And Van La Parra has been sent off! It seems there was some kind of coming-together with Sane.
Leroy Sane is booked after the final whistle, and is now being ushered away from the officials and towards the tunnel.
Final score: Huddersfield Town 1-2 Manchester City
90+6 mins: After 14 seconds of additional stoppage time, the referee blows his whistle. It’s done!
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90+5 mins: Sterling is fouled by Lowe near the corner flag. There have been a lot of stoppages in stoppage time.
90+4 mins: Otamendi is fouled by Mounie near the half-way line. Huddersfield have made the last couple of minutes pretty easy for City.
90+4 mins: Fernandinho is fouled on the half-way line, and City spend a slightly briefer age over the free kick.
90+3 mins: Gundogan is fouled by Williams inside his own half, and City spend an absolute age over the free kick.
90+2 mins: The clock ticks. City are forced into a blind, hopeful booted clearance.
90+1 mins: Into stoppage time, and there’ll be at least five minutes of it!
89 mins: A final City substitution: Silva is off, and Mangala is on.
87 mins: Then Silva fouls Mooy, and is booked. The Australian’s free kick bends round the wall, dips and ripples the side netting!
86 mins: Quaner nearly runs onto the ball in the penalty area, as Huddersfield set out to conjure an equaliser.
86 mins: Town bring Steve Mounie on in place of Hogg, and City bring Ilkay Hundogan on in place of Aguero.
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GOAL! Huddersfield 1-2 Manchester City (Sterling, 84 mins)
City take the lead, and with a helping hand from pure luck! Sterling passes to De Bruyne, whose attempt to return it hits a defender and runs to Jesus, whose shot hits Lossl, bounces out, hits Sterling – who knows nothing about it – and rebounds in!
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83 mins: Nope, they couldn’t. The corner’s headed out, sent back in, nodded down towards Quaner and claimed by Ederson.
82 mins: Quaner immediately wins a corner. They couldn’t, surely?
81 mins: Collin Quaner comes on for Ince.
80 mins: City bring on another forward, replacing Vincent Kompany with Gabriel Jesus.
79 mins: According to Sky, Huddersfield have hit 16 successful passes in this half. City have made 285.
77 mins: City pass the ball about for an age in Huddersfield’s half, but nowhere near their penalty area. Eventually Aguero hits it into Sane and they lose their momentum (but not possession).
74 mins: The home side’s first substitution sees Malone taken off, and Chris Lowe come on.
73 mins: Things have calmed down a little, and the match has reverted to the first-half theme of constant City probing and relatively little wild fouling.
70 mins: Silva is picked out in the penalty area, but after he turns and assesses his options he chips a cross straight to Lossl. “Fernandinho was surely taking evasive action?” suggests J Hopkin of that 63rd-minute booking for a dive. The leg-swing was wild enough to have worried him, for sure.
66 mins: Sterling is fouled again, by Van La Parra, and Huddersfield can hardly stop themselves kicking people at the moment. Moments later De Bruyne body-checks Van La Parra and, unlike Malone moments earlier, isn’t booked. They were almost identical offences. The crowd bays.
65 mins: And another booking, Scott Malone seeing yellow for a body-check on De Bruyne.
63 mins: De Bruyne passes to Fernandinho, who runs towards the area. Just as he reaches it Van La Parra swipes at him with a wild swish of the leg, but makes no contact with either player or ball. That doesn’t stop Fernandinho going down, though, and he’s booked for diving.
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62 mins: The fourth official calls the referee over and they talk for a while, after which Craig Pawson tells David Wagner to calm down. This makes Town’s fans even angrier.
60 mins: Van la Parra and Walker run into each other. Absolutely nothing in it, and certainly didn’t look like a foul to me – by either player – but the fans are furious. This is probably because they’re still miffed about the penalty, but replays show it certainly was one.
57 mins: Sane hits the bar! The free kick clears the wall, dips and thwacks the woodwork, bouncing back out of the penalty area and to safety!
56 mins: Aguero, pushed wide to the right while all support is to his left, brilliantly checks back inside Zanka and Mooy and passes to Silva, who is tripped by Hogg. Hogg is booked, and City have a threatening free kick.
55 mins: Silva, in a bit too much of a hurry, scoops a shot high from 20 yards.
52 mins: Chance for City! Fernandinho pokes the ball through to Aguero, whose shot hits Lossl and rolls just wide.
51 mins: Sterling’s every touch is now being booed. He’s having quite a few of them, as City repeatedly probe down their right.
48 mins: It was Malone who conceded the penalty, tugging Sterling’s shirt. Not a lot, but Sterling didn’t need a second invitation.
GOAL! Huddersfield 1-1 Manchester City (Aguero penalty, 47 mins)
Aguero runs up very slowly, waits for Lossl to commit and sidefoots into the corner!
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Manchester City have a penalty!
Sterling runs into the area again, and goes down again, and this time the referee points to the spot!
46 mins: The ball is played into the area, Sterling runs towards it and Lossl runs out to meet him, and the City player goes down. He wants a penalty, and the referee says no.
46 mins: Peeeeeep! They’re off! Again!
The players are big out. A big, and fascinating, 45 minutes ahead.
The goal was ludicrously against the run of play, of course. But the corner came from Delph being drawn out of position at left back, where his instincts are all muddled, giving Ince too much space to run down Town’s right. City will consider the goal a fluke, the result of the ball taking a defender by surprise and bouncing in the worst possible direction, but there’s more to it than that.
And counting.
Half time: Huddersfield 1-0 Manchester City
Before this game Manchester City had trailed for just eight minutes in away games this season. Make that eight minutes and about five seconds.
GOAL! Huddersfield 1-0 Manchester City (Otamendi own goal, 45+1 mins)
The ball is curled towards Schindler at the near post, and the ball brushes off the top of his head, hits Otamendi and goes in!
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45+1 mins: Town’s first corner of the day is curled into the box, where Kompany heads just over his own bar!
45 mins: Ince is played into all sorts of space down the right, but with two players to pick out to his left – and plenty of defenders intent on stopping him – he hits the nearest black shirt. Corner.
43 mins: And a chance for City! Sterling crosses from the right to Fernandinho, who thwacks high!
41 mins: Chance for Huddersfield! A cross from the right is flicked on by Schindler at the near post and falls to Zanka, who has no time and knocks the ball wide.
40 mins: Sane puts a hand in Depoitre’s face. The reaction is over the top, and the referee does well not to react to the crowd’s fury.
38 mins: Save! And a miss! Silva’s first-time flick finds Aguero, who chests down and thumps a shot goalwards. Lossl pushes it to Sterling, who slices wide under pressure!
37 mins: Another one-two opens up some space for City, but Otamendi blasts his shot high.
37 mins: There are 11 corners in the average Premier League match, so around five per team. City have already had six.
34 mins: Chance! Silva plays a one-two with De Bruyne and plays in Aguero, whose first touch is terrible. He only needed to control and shoot, but instead he sent the ball rolling five yards to his right and a defender got there first. Still, it took a fantastic sliding tackle-cum-clearance from Zanka to do it.
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34 mins: Another City corner, and it’s headed clear. Huddersfield are coping with the pressure well, but there’s just so much of it.
31 mins: At the other end, Depoitre beats Delph to the ball and gets into the area, but his attempt to bustle past Kompany and open up a clear shot on goal is denied by a desperately-thrust toe.
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30 mins: City create some space in the penalty area for the first time, Sane bursting down the left and pulling back to De Bruyne, whose control needed to be instant and wasn’t.
28 mins: Smith gets down the right again for Huddersfield, but he finds himself in a thicket of City players and it ends in a goal kick.
24 mins: A shot! De Bruyne’s chipped pass to Silva is headed away by Zanka, and Aguero volleys it into the ground and wide.
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23 mins: This is cracking stuff. Sane fizzes a low cross across goal, with nobody there to turn it in. Huddersfield pick up the ball and head forward. They don’t get very far, it must be said, but they’re competitive here.
20 mins: Huddersfield break again, and after a fine overlapping run Smith’s cross is headed away by Kompany.
19 mins: City win another corner, and play this one short. De Bruyne and City exchange passes before the latter finds Sterling, whose low cross is put behind for yet another corner, which is headed clear.
17 mins: De Bruyne’s corner is a poor one and Huddersfield break. Ince passes to Smith, who bursts down the right, cuts inside and then blasts a shot over the bar.
15 mins: A sixth of the game gone. De Bruyne tries to work a smart one-two with Sane, but the German doesn’t anticipate the return pass.
13 mins: Sterling is fouled by Van La Parra. It could be that set pieces are City’s most likely route to a breakthrough, and De Bruyne picks out Aguero’s run with an early free-kick, and the Argentinian tucks it into the net – but is clearly offside.
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12 mins: Manchester City have had 73% of possession so far, but I imagine Huddersfield will be perfectly happy with the way the game has started.
9 mins: This looks set to be a fascinating tactical battle. Huddersfield give no space in the final 50 yards, and City are yet to work out what to do about it. Another attempt to go over the home defence bounces out for a goal kick.
6 mins: City win a corner, and Sane’s centre bends, dips, lands in the middle of a congested penalty area and deflects behind for a second corner. De Bruyne sends this one in, and Kompany heads wide.
4 mins: Eventually they go long, over the defence, but just too long for Silva.
3 mins: Huddersfield defend in depth while Manchester City have the ball, the away side’s defenders all well inside the home half and under no pressure, but with no easy forward passes available.
2 mins: Huddersfield win two throw-ins in quick succession, noisily cheered by the crowd, and then overhit a pass out of play. Goal kick.
1 min: Peeeeep! Huddersfield get the game under way.
The players are out and ready for action. Deep breath …
Players and referees are wearing rainbow laces this weekend to show their support for LGBT people in sport, but Huddersfield have really gone the extra mile:
David Wagner has a chat to Sky:
It looks like this is a very difficult task for us, a task which maybe looks impossible, but in football you always have a chance. Sometimes the chance looks a little bit bigger, sometimes not. We will try everything to get the chance. This is why football is so interesting. Against every opponent you have to think about what will be best. You never know before a game if you have done the right decision.
And Pep Guardiola also talks:
He [Wagner] showed many good things this season, but of course we are here to try and do our game. Every day, every game is completely different. Even if Manchester United had won here, it would be difficult to come here and play, like every game away.
Good/bad memory dept:
The least familiar name on the Manchester City team sheet belongs to Alexander Zinchenko, a 20-year-old Ukrainian central midfielder who makes the matchday squad for the second league game this season (he was also there for the 1-0 win at Chelsea), but is yet to make an appearance. He did play in the Caribao Cup game against Wolves, though.
“It won’t be easy to break into this team,” he told the club website last month, “but I’m working hard towards my goal and I want to be a positive influence at the Club, on the training ground and in the dressing room and contribute in whichever way I can.”
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City make five changes to the team that beat Feyenoord in the Champions League and two to the side that won at Leicester last weekend – Jesus and the injured Stones drop out, and Otamendi and Aguero come in.
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The teams!
The team sheets are in, and the names upon them are these:
Huddersfield: Lossl, Smith, Jorgensen, Schindler, Malone, Hogg, Williams, Ince, Mooy, van La Parra, Depoitre. Subs: Kachunga, Cranie, Lowe, Quaner, Mounie, Green, Hadergjonaj.
Man City: Ederson, Walker, Otamendi, Kompany, Delph, De Bruyne, Fernandinho, Silva, Sterling, Aguero, Sane. Subs: Bravo, Danilo, Gundogan, Mangala, Bernardo Silva, Gabriel Jesus, Alexander Zinchenko.
Referee: Craig Pawson.
TEAM NEWS with @ViessmannUK: #htafc Head Coach David Wagner has made three changes to the starting XI for today’s @premierleague game against @ManCity.
— Huddersfield Town (@htafcdotcom) November 26, 2017
Tommy Smith, Christopher Schindler and Jonathan Hogg replace @FloHadergjonaj, Martin Cranie and @ekachunga15 (AT) pic.twitter.com/GQExlQbGT5
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— Manchester City (@ManCity) November 26, 2017
Hello world!
In six away games in the Premier League so far this season Manchester city have led for 229 minutes and been behind for just eight, which all came during the 2-1 win at Bournemouth back in August (between the 13th and the 21st minutes, to be precise). If you were to fashion an average City away match they would score the impossible-but-bear-with-me total of 2.66667 goals, concede 0.5 goals, spend 78 seconds in arrears, and 2,292 seconds in the lead.
Huddersfield’s home record isn’t bad – they have spent only 81 minutes in losing positions, better than every team except Liverpool, Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal and Bournemouth (who have somehow converted this handsome statistic into the division’s fifth-worst overall home record), and famously and gloriously beat Manchester United here last month. But this, well, this will be a test.
Huddersfield “have to step over our borderline to have a chance”, according to David Wagner. It’s a nice turn of phrase, though it suggests he’s considering fleeing to another country. That would really scupper our afternoon’s entertainment, but may be the Terriers’ best chance of avoiding defeat. Anyway, hello! This, I say fairly confidently, should be fun. Let’s enjoy it together.
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