Today’s Football 2021/22 Season

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The turnaround was staggering to be honest – because this didn’t seem like the Manchester City we have seen all season. They were a patch of it, a shadow of it for 73, 74 minutes, nowhere near the quality they have shown.

They were giving passes away unnecessarily, they couldn’t get the momentum, they certainly weren’t troubling Robin Olsen in the Aston Villa goal and then suddenly it changed around and the momentum for that last 20 minutes was relentless.

That was the Manchester City team then that has deservedly won the title this season – but for so long in the game you wondered where they were.

Was it nerves? Was it just a very good tactical display from Aston Villa? It doesn’t matter now. In a six-minute period Manchester had got the job done, got that title into the record books and you could see the relief among some of their players.

Once that goal went in, there was just no stopping them – they got the ball back quickly, the players were back in their own half ready to kick off before the Aston Villa players had made it out of their penalty area.

They flooded men forwards, they played with enthusiasm and they found an extra spring in their step that hadn’t been there previously and that’s what got them over the line.


Not my words ladies and gentlemen, but the words of former Everton legend, Leon Osman.
 
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