Thanks for joining us for today’s 2-0 win at Leicester City to conclude 2024.
You can access brief highlights of today’s game on mancity.com and our official app from 17:45 (UK) while extended highlight and our full match replay - on CITY+ - can be viewed from midnight.
Great to have you with us, today and here’s to a fantastic 2025.
Hope the New Year is a happy and healthy one for you and your families.
Phenomenal support today appreciated by Manuel Akanji on full-time.
Pep Guardiola has won 355 of his 500 games - that's an astonishing win percentage of 71%!
234 of his 323 Premier League games have ended in victory while he has also succeeded in 60 of his 93 games in the Champions League.
With 1,213 goals scored and only 429 conceded, City have a whopping positive goal difference of 784 since the manager's arrival.
Pep Guardiola on the win👇
“We need it – all of us. It was not an ideal performance but hopefully the victory will give us a different position.
“Now in the situation, the result is the most important – to clear our mind, we have another home games now.
“It’s just relief now. The feeling we have - all of us.”
Erling Haaland on the victory👇
“Good to win. I’m just happy we’re winning.
“I think it’s important to look ahead. We have to keep going and stay positive and focus on the right things.
“It’s always a relief when you score. It was an important goal to go 2-0 up.
“Leicester did a really good game, playing good with a new coach, we knew it was going to be difficult.
“It’s been a difficult time. Now it’s New Years. Not think about football. 5 or 6 days before the next game. Rest for a little but and then go again.”
Manager Pep Guardiola delighted with the maximum haul this afternoon.
Our away fans buzzing at King Power Stadium.
Goals in each half by Savinho and Erling Haaland ensured a very welcome 2-0 win away at Leicester to end 2024 on a high.
Savinho opened the scoring on 21 minutes as he fired past goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk who had parried Phil Foden’s shot into his path.
Erling Haaland made the three points safe as he headed powerfully into the net on 74 minutes to send the away fans home happy and guarantee we enter 2025 with a spring in our step.
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5 mins to be added on.
Vardy loops a header goalwards and, with Ortega Moreno scrambling across, the ball ricochets off the bar and out.
Let-off there for City.
CommentaryReporting by Paul Brown @mancity