PHIL FODEN MASTERCLASS! 💎 Man City 3-0 Crystal Palace Reaction | IS THE TITLE RACE OVER? 🏆

Added: 2026-05-14

[00:00:00]So, you're saying there's a chance.

[00:00:03]Buying over till the fat lady sings.

[00:00:06]Manchester City 3 Crystal Palace nil.

[00:00:12]Um anything any of us said uh before the game had kicked off, anything any of us City fans said when we saw the lineup. Um Pep our bad.

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[00:02:03]It isn't over. It's official. Arsenal will not be lifting the trophy at home on Monday night.

[00:02:11]They will not be parading the trophy at the Emirates on Monday night. It's going down to the wire. It's going down to the last game of the season. Now, I've spoken about it before.

[00:02:23]Bournemouth away for us is such a difficult game, and um you look at the fact that it's their last home game, Areola's last home game.

[00:02:33]It's uh the fact that they're going to be playing for a fourth or fifth or sixth place potential Champions League position, and they're I think 16 games unbeaten. It's a difficult game. Uh I then look at Arsenal against Burnley at home. I don't think they'll drop points.

[00:02:48]And to be honest with you, we play Crystal Palace tonight, right?

[00:02:53]We already saw that Watkins got rested for the first half. That I think Sa didn't start. And I expect it to be a very similar story when they play Arsenal in the last game of the season.

[00:03:03]So, and of course, I think uh Oh, I think that um Glasner has actually come out and said that VAR will have more of an impact on this title race than Crystal Palace do.

[00:03:18]Um But listen, football moves in mysterious ways. And so, all we can do is win our games, right?

[00:03:29]And then at the end of the season, if we haven't got it, we look back at the Everton game. We look back at the the Sunderland game. We look back at the Chelsea game. We look back at the Ever- many games, way too many games this season. But all we can do for now is win. And listen, that is what we did tonight. Now, I'm not going to lie. When I saw the lineup, I thought Pep has given up on the league. Pep is focusing on getting that FA Cup and it becoming a a good season for Manchester City doing a cup double.

[00:03:58]Um Holland rested.

[00:04:00]Cherki rested.

[00:04:02]Doku rested.

[00:04:04]O'Riley not even on the bench. And by the way, just to confirm anyone that's seen O'Riley not on the bench, uh the club have confirmed that he's fine. He was just given the night off, right? Pep said he needs a rest, you know, he's had a lot of minutes this season. So, he's been given a rest. So, don't worry but the positives the positives in the lineup was it Kuz is not was back in.

[00:04:26]And the massive massive positive for me was that um Vardyol was back in. Now, it's weird when we looked at this team because let me know your thoughts, right? Cuz Vardyol and Ait-Nouri uh it so it was it was a Kuz enough Guehi Nunes and then Vardyol at left back, Ait-Nouri in front of him, or was it vice versa?

[00:04:50]They just kept interchanging normally.

[00:04:53]You know, at times Vardyol was playing like a central midfielder. At times Ait-Nouri was inverted and playing inside. Um Ait-Nouri was hugging the left a lot, which was meaning that Smenyo was maybe playing a bit more in the middle. And of course Savio on the right. Foden and Marmoush uh Foden in the middle and Benardo.

[00:05:12]Um for me I've got to say this is what we've been missing all all season with Phil Foden. Well, not all season. I have to be fair. Phil Foden had a period where he was good. Uh but we saw the best of Phil Foden again today. Phil And by the way, let me just say this, if giving Phil Foden a new contract meant that he played like he did today and he played like he did when he came on um at the weekend, then maybe we need to be saying to Foden, you know, we'll review your contract every year. Because today Phil Foden was unplayable.

[00:05:47]Um Firstly, that assist. Absolutely beautiful. People, we've all seen the video of Declan Rice scanning and then playing the ball in the direction it came from.

[00:06:01]Backwards.

[00:06:03]Um And then we saw Phil Foden today. Just before he gets the ball, one look, he knows where the player is, and he knows what run the player is going to make.

[00:06:13]The no-look backheel, absolutely beautiful. And even the tech- even the simple things in the technique, right?

[00:06:19]Absolutely beautiful pass. And Semenyo, great great finish. Uh funnily enough, I was driving home from work before the game, and talkSPORT were um talking about Semenyo.

[00:06:30]And um bit of a narrative that's going on, maybe with talkSPORT and other media outlets, is that Guehi and Semenyo have been bad signings now. Um Semenyo on the right, pops up, first time shot, goal.

[00:06:43]1-0 Manchester City. And from that point, it was pretty much then cruise control.

[00:06:49]Um Second goal.

[00:06:52]Now, I want to know your thoughts. Did Foden mean that or not? Now, with most players, and I'm not just meaning most players from other teams, with most players I would say they didn't mean that, they were trying to bring it down for themselves. Now, fo- that could be the case with Foden. But if anyone means that, it was Phil.

[00:07:12]Um We're slightly behind Marmoush. Marmoush with his back to goal. I thought maybe whoever the player that was running on should have took it. But Marmoush, fair play to him, did really really well. Got a bit of a deflection, but um again, 2-0 Manchester City. And then from that point, it was beautiful football, to be honest with you. Savio, um cooking. I can't lie, Savio was cooking today. Do I still want to see more from Savio? Yes. Everyone Everyone that watches this channel religiously or often know that I've been very very very frustrated with Savio. However, today I thought Savio had a good game.

[00:07:55]Um Chucky comes on and that assist from Chucky was absolutely beautiful. Picked up the ball from deep, drove with the ball, noticed the gap, threads it through perfectly weighted pass and of course say, great from Savio. Lifts it over the keeper and 3-0 Manchester City, which means that we are now Sorry, let me just bring up the league table. We are now on 77 77 points to Arsenal's 79. We've both played 36 games and we now have a plus one goal difference over Arsenal.

[00:08:34]And we are equal on games. So, somehow for us to win this league, we have to pick up two points on Arsenal somewhere.

[00:08:42]So, Arsenal lose both their games, City draw both of theirs and we win the league.

[00:08:49]I mean, listen, I had some fun with that.

[00:08:51]There's many different ways that potentially we could still win this league.

[00:08:55]I think it's a tall tall ask.

[00:08:59]Um Burnley, Kyle Walker, do you have anything for us? Still have your say at the Emirates.

[00:09:08]I'll tell you what, I can't lie. Could you imagine if Burnley did somehow get a draw there, right?

[00:09:15]And then we do go and beat Bournemouth.

[00:09:18]That would be Yeah, that would then be back to goal difference.

[00:09:23]I can't imagine it, but stranger things have happened at sea. So, we've done our job tonight.

[00:09:30]We could see Omar Marmoush come in and score. We could see Foden. I'm I'm going to say back to his best cuz it's only one game, but it's great to see Foden looking happy and playing good football.

[00:09:40]Got man of the match as well, and he looked very happy on the bench. Uh it was great to see him chucking Harland looking happy for some of the other players and finished players. I've got to speak on Vardy as well. Seeing Vardy come back in first game, and uh the pass for the the pass for the second goal, so the the through pass, uh lifted it over the top, absolutely beautiful. Uh was unlucky to not score a head in a header from a Foden cross as well.

[00:10:08]Um But, it's really, really great to see Vardy back, and you do just think if we had Vardy back this season, would we be in a different place? We also you could look at it and say um you know, if Foden was playing the way he played today, would it be a different different outcome this season? But, listen, I don't don't want to do that, because, you know, leagues are won with squads, and I guess this season our squad just wasn't there. But, tonight, our finished players came in and performed very, very well. I'd actually go as far to say possibly the worst player on the pitch today might have been Bernardo. Bernardo with some uh giving the ball away a couple of times.

[00:10:54]Um But, yeah, overall, a great day. Let me know your thoughts, some people. I want you to make sure you're liking the video. If you haven't liked it already and you've reached this point, please do make sure you like uh you like the video. Helps the channel out so much.

[00:11:10]I want you to answer me these questions in the comments.

[00:11:14]Is the league done? Can Manchester City still win this league? If so, how?

[00:11:19]Please tell me your versions of how Man City win this league. Secondly, um could Phil Foden make a late surge for an England place.

[00:11:36]Right now, I do find this quite interesting because I don't think any of the 10s for for England have looked amazing. So, I do think there is a very slim chance.

[00:11:48]Me personally, I probably wouldn't take him if I was too cool. And as a City fan, I would probably also Would I like Foden to go?

[00:12:04]But not go as a guaranteed star, maybe.

[00:12:07]Right? Cuz I think that could help his confidence.

[00:12:10]Just go as part of the squad. That could help his confidence. If he goes as a star, I just fear that will it work? Will it not?

[00:12:20]Alternatively, does Foden need a summer off to just get his head right? Let me know your thoughts on that in the comments as well.

[00:12:28]Um And finally, bit of news, looks like Rodri is going to sign a new contract.

[00:12:35]We will talk on that tomorrow morning on We Are The South Stand when we are live.

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